Vermona Perfourmer & DRM1 - acidic

This was going good earlier in the week, but I think I tired of it or something cause when I finally got around to filming it, I'd lost the spark. The recording sounds like crud, too, on account of the camera's mic. Anyhow, I'm posting it because I like the Perfourmer patches, and I think they show off the tasty filters. Also was trying a nice trick on the 01v where you can gang a bunch of sliders together to another.. Since I don't use 13/14 and 15/16 when recording, I used them to gang some channels together. It's pretty neat -- if you set the ganging when the 15/16 slider is at 6db (full on) for instance, the other (motorized) faders in the gang will fade from their current location to -INFdb and back to their max when you fade any of the gang up and down. That little experiment cost me some flexibility though since any member controls the others, so I'll probably have to work on that. Excuses, excuses.... Onward to the video...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• vermona
• perfourmer
• drm1mkii
• drm1
• analog
• synth
• synthesizer
• analogue
• drums

[M3sslah]

Is this only the vermona drummachine and the perfourmer? They sound really solid, how versatile are the drummachine and the perfourmer? Is it a setup you would recommend and is it also easy to setup and control with a DAW like Logic for instance? And is there any software editor for it? Lots of questions sorry for that, just really interested in buying this stuff myself, kinda miss that old banging sound.

[coldhandmurr]

@M3sslah Yeah it's only the two. Tough questions to answer. The DRM has specific duties in mind for each channel, but you have a pretty wide range of sounds within each one, from typical to fx type stuff. The snare is very, very good and the hihats/cymbals are much better than usual analogue hats. The perfourmer is what it is.. four monosynths. But.. there are play modes that make it behave unlike any other analogue synth. The filters sound awesome but all you get is LPF.

[coldhandmurr]

@M3sslah Re DAW integr.. these are really intended to be used 'by hand'. You can control the filter cutoffs over midi on the Perfourmer. But other than triggering the drums & playing notes over midi there's no DAW integration. What I would do is make a midi sequence, and then record the audio back into the DAW & work from there. Each channel on both machines has an insert point (an individual output and input on a single plug). This allows patching in fx pedals etc. Not a very DAW/VST lifestyle.

[proteron]

Nice. I like the second synth line that kicks in around the 1:35 break. are you sequencing this in live le?

you might try recordind the audio to disk and muxing it with the video.. i understand that's probably more work than it's worth..

no controller tweaks, looked like you were riding the mixer the whole time, which is fine in itself...

[coldhandmurr]

it was just a 16 step loop in floops

no tweaking and no muxing since i was just trying out the ganged fader thing.. def was more hinderance than help in this situation

[signetroup]

This vid is a favorite on Tunis

[M3sslah]

@coldhandmurr In a perfect world I would buy them all and the vermona and the DRM, but I also want to keep my setup a little DAW friendly since I have noticed the units collect dust if they are to hard to reach. You mainly sit and watch the screen anyway so suddenly spin the chair and fix with sounds and spin back gets a little annoying so you end up not playing them even if they are awesome. The thing with the Pulse is that there is a soft-editor to control it and Tetra 4 also have that.

[M3sslah]

@coldhandmurr Thanks for the reply, I have a machinedrum so my thoughts is how badly I need the DRM, but again the machinedrum is not analog but still hold it's own in terms of bangyness. So maybe I should go more for the analog mono/polysynths for sounds. But I think they could complement eachother also the MD and the DRM. I was thinking of getting like 2-4 analogs, probably the Tetra 4, Spectral audio Neptune 2, waldorf pulse and xoxbox. How is the Vermona for puncy bass and deep bass?

[dilliot2k]

this is like a clip out of mtv's amp..... I miss it.

[WATCHSONICS]

gotta love those nice big german kicks

I actually think its interesting to hear how well they come over on a shitty camera mic

cool music, cool set up too

[FILTREP]

Nice, I can see why you are a Front242 fan!!