oh yes, this gives me so much hope. Great stuff as always.
I enjoy taking it to the edge too, but this is the kind of thing I’d whip up in a pinch as a layer to support an existing track.
Sometimes you just need a beat, and I’m glad to hear it delivers.
DR-2 has more synthesis options, compressor per channel, sidechain source per channel, tilt eq, overdrive, send/return per channel, Euclidean pattern generator, random pattern generator, parameter locks, faders not to be underestimated (eg, set maximum volume at full throw rather than trying to balance levels when you are rocking the shit out of the place), pattern variations/chains, quick kit/pattern saving, link or unlink kit/pattern, a/b sounds per channel, per channel accent plus a global accent channel, assignable knobs above mixer, very quick to set up modulations and undo them again. The flam settings are extensive and very creative, reverse sound, tuplets, breaks (cutting a sound off) 32nds and a Song Mode. Updates have been very very tasty for sure, very mature now.
Can sound very hard, very crazy, delicate and airy.
The DR-2 is a Stormtrooper’s 909 as far as I’m concerned!
We all know about the Perkons here but the DR-2 is a lesser known beast so thought I’d chip in, I know there are lots of similarities. Compare the manuals, they are both very short and easy to understand.
As for the question, I’d ask if you can afford to miss out trying the DR-2 at that price when you could probs sell it on for similar…?
BOTH is best 
, nothing like having a stinker booming out of the HD and you really want a ride and clap so draft in the DR as backup, and with both parameter lockable now it’s a fever!
DR-2 feels like having an old-skool massive drum machine at your fingertips, but from the digital future where the Empire defeated the Rebel scum and enlisted the Stormtroopers to burn up the dance floor. The Pērkons feels like harnessing the power of raw waves and shaping them like putty, dancing between kits and patterns like a god of thunder high on Skittles and Pepsi Max.
Both digital, both very different in terms of sound and feel, both produced very different results in my hands. Both brilliant.
I have a single wish for both machines and that’s playing the channels chromatically (in multi mode) like the Nord Drum 2.
A total minefield to implement but a dream nonetheless!
GREAT summary of the Modor! Seeing it all laid out like that makes me wonder why it’s so under the radar in the landscape of drum machines.
Cos it’s very expensive.
You wouldn’t think this would be a huge issue, but it is starting to drive me crazy too lol. They reaaallly need to change it so it plays last time through and not the first time through.
Ya…if the Modor was 1K, I would have it again…2K, ugh.
Seriously; I can see use cases for the current option but it just makes no sense from a fills perspective.
I did think of a workaround use the Octatrack: program the Perkons to play certain steps 3/4 or 7/8, and then have a separate OT channel use a corresponding conditional trig to fill in the gaps at the end of the intended loop. So you get the same effect, but at the cost of having to use another device.
You could even sample the Perkons to have similar drum sounds on those fills (although I think sometimes it’s awesome to have acoustic snare fills combined with a more digital-sounding snare sound).
Still…it ain’t the same as just adding this functionality on the Perkons.
It’s cheap. One guy works there.
I’m sure I missed some bits too!
Whilst I don’t doubt that the cost reflects high quality and the fact it’s a 1 man operation, 2k is not cheap.
I dunno if the price is that big a deal. It’s cheaper than a pulsar and a perkōns. It’s about the same price as an Alpha Base and only a ton or so more than a Rytm these days.
It’s expensive, sure, but no more so than its peers.
Hey Perkons people.
https://youtu.be/fwWtdURDUuw?t=44
What is going on here around 45 seconds. It looks like he’s using manual Ratchets but I haven’t read or heard anything about that ability.
It has per-step ratchets, but are they using the time division multiplier to effectively be “ratcheting” via the button?
Yes it’s a kind of temporary note repeat. If you press SHIFT+SHUFFLE+(one of the four) TRIG button.
That’s pretty tight. I wonder if it respects the last used ratchet time, or you just kind of get what you get.
Regardless, it looks like yet another fun way to get some hands on variation.
Long day at work but that box will be waiting for me when I get home! Bloops will be had.
Me: I’m going to make some chill, slowly evolving shit on the perkons. I’ll show em.
Also me:
Paulstretch, and you’ve got a 4-hour long ambient album.