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Every time I visit this thread (Or watch a @fredweb) video, my desire for a Perfourmer increases drastically. Every song someone posts using it is divine.
IIRC the Perkons controls pitch by dial or midi cc rather than note on/off. So channel trigger would be a single note, eg something like C2 for channel 1, D2 for channel 2, but the actual pitch produced is a separate knob twist or midi cc value.
An Elektron box would probably be a better sequencer for a Perfourmer
Yep, Digitone is a good option to pair with the perfourmer, 4 midi tracks and audio in to give the vermona some fx.
Another combo I considered was the Circuit Tracks, but in that case you would have to sacrifice its two synth tracks to use as midi tracks instead potentially.
I tested with Digitakt and Keystep 37. I prefere use the Digitakt because you can save sequences and sample the result. Then slice and make interesting pattern.
The perfourmer doesn’t work very well with keyboard playing, it’s not a true poly synth like prophet, it’s 4 synth you can play together, so it’s work better with a sequencer.
I would LOVE to get a PerFourmer some day. I’ve had a Mono Lancet 15 for about 4 years and I adore it. It’s everything I want a mono synth to be - simple and beautiful (I have my modular for crazy sounds).
Has anyone made the switch from Mono Lancet to PerFourmer? The only thing really holding me back is space.
I’m sometime think the same thing, add a mono lancet for bassline, and add 2 filter lancet on the main out of the perfourmer to have high pass filter and overdrive
I often sequence my p4mer with a Digitakt. It’s always worked perfectly for me. Only hassle is deciding which play mode to use on the p4mer and therefore how many MIDI tracks to use on the Digitakt. The round-robin with 4 channels is fun, but so is the 2 and 2, and the 1 1 1 1. What I’m saying is, explore the play modes. They’re great. The Vermona PerFourmer is a masterpiece.
you certainly CAN play it with a keyboard though. just like you can play the Analog Keys as a four voice poly with each voice independently configured. I’m assuming your point is that if you want it to be polyphonic and play it via keys, you have to carefully dial in the voices to be exactly the same. BUT I’d say that’s where using it in polyphonic mode (via keys or sequencer) is actually quite sweet: when they’re NOT the same. that’s how older polyphonic synths with voice cards worked. even carefully calibrated, the cards were never 100% the same, so polyphonic playing had a little extra magic to it. but here, you can dial that in however you like.
but yes: I’d also recommend a sequencer and not just keys (but have both attached if you can!). you can’t explore all it has to offer otherwise. you need something that can output between 1-4 different midi channels to explore all the voicing options.