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Based on 7 reviews

Perkons HD_01 - The lay out is just perfect... a great bit of industrial design by the team at Erica Synths! I clicked with it instantly. All powerful and it is so easy to use! A little menu diving with shift functions, but this is kept to a minimum. It has plenty of storage for 64 patterns and 64 kits in one of 64 banks on the supplied SD card. Also where you perform firmware updates. The HD_01 has a wide palette for shaping sounds with three different algorithms and three mode switches with different parameters per voice, as well as a High Pass, Band Pass and a Low Pass filter on each channel with a cut-off knob for control. As for each channel having 8 control knobs for Tune, Decay, Parameters 1 & 2, Cut-off, Drive and an FX Send as well as having it own Level setting. Adding your...

Based on 5 reviews

I have waited about a month to finally get to write the review of this machine since I wanted to take a good look at it first and test its possibilities. A little bit of background first - I have been producing music (electronic) for more than 10 years now and I am using digital/analog setup. What I needed was a drum machine with great sonic character and decent sequencer for making beats as I was not happy with anything I tried before in "cheaper" price range (TR's, Volcas, ....) due to either a weak sonic character or limited tweaking options. Of course this was my first purchase of a drum machine in this price range, so my expectations were high and Analog Rytm seemed as something that would be perfect for me. My first impressions were really great - the machine is built...

Based on 3 reviews

Edit after almost a year of using it. _The Bass synth really sounds fat and it has "something". _The Kick looses power as soon as the attack is not the shortest, Bit annoying. But solvable by the several independent output. -The SD voice is the "weak" point of this instrument in my opinion. _Sounds unique, I pair it with a more "classic" drum machine. _It's a very inspiring instruments. _It is indeed expensive, If you consider it from another point of view, all those modules as eurorack, it is kinda cheap. _Get more cables, 40 is definitely not enough when you start to connect it to other instruments. -here is my first impression- It's a very good instrument and has its own character. The overall sound is quite "metallic" to my hear and I like...

Based on 3 reviews

I waited a while to get my hands on one of these but it was 100% worth it. This thing is much more than a drum machine/synth. It's an inspiration machine. Although slightly intimidated by its seeming complexity at first I was actually, within a couple of minutes of using it, creating sounds and patterns I just wouldn't have ever done so using anything else. The thing sounds like a beast and is capable of bone rattling bass, head snapping snares, feedback loops, drones and IDM/glitch style sound design. It's also built like a tank and has a satisfying weightiness to it. It's not cheap though and as such if what you are after is a more conventional drum machine with a standard approach to sequencing (as opposed to pulsar 23's parrallel loopers approach) this might not be the machine...

Based on 2 reviews

I sit for hours playing this thing. It's my favourite Instrument. I've had it for weeks and there's so many things I've discovered, and things I haven't tried yet. It needs more LFO's (but this can be done externally,) and I really wish the tuning of the bass drum could be controlled with midi like you can with the bass module (this has at least not worked when sequencing it with the beatstep pro, and although you can use CV to tune the bass drum, this is a tedious process.) 9/10, absolutely worth the price.

Based on 1 reviews

Nostalgia might have been the main reason why i bought the TR-06. We used it back in 1986 when the drumatix was all we had next to a synth. It was pure fun. A friend of mine argues that with today's computers, this machine has become more or less obsolete. While i do understand his point of view, i do believe that the TR-06 still has that unique way of working which is different from DAW's and VSTi's imho. If you expect a lot of sounds, you might be disappointed as there are only a few. Roland has put a few more inside compared to the original, but it's still not much. Of course there's a lot of alternatives that contain all the old 606, 707, 808 and 909 Roland sounds. I think the only true advantage lays in the hardware-way of working, not in having a lot of sounds.

Based on 1 reviews

The Impact is a full-featured machine that requires you to get hands-on with your beats and tweaks. The basics are easy and quick to grasp, but when you get into the more subtle features like polymeters, probabilities, randomization, step shift timing - you can easily do triplets within 4/4 beats - and unquantized recording you'll find out how versatile the Impact really is. The only feature I miss is MIDI control of the instrument parameters - the Impact is truly hands-on - to tweak the sounds in real time you'll need to work the knobs. There's plenty of features geared towards live manipulation like per-instrument ratchets, pattern part repeats and per-instrument/full-pattern randomness to keep things interesting, but you'll have your hands full, which may or may not be a bad thing....

Based on 1 reviews

No brainer for the braindancers! Great machine although the clap is not very loud compared to other instruments it's an easy fix if you are handy with a soldering iron. Check Maffez's site for that and many more mods. As is, it's a decent 606 type machine, which will provide you with enough enjoyment. Why even bother with a new roland machine when you can have one of these proper analogue ones for half the price. Sounds great and works as it should. Build is good too. Cheap and plastic as it should be.

Based on 12 reviews

I loved this machine and though I sold it to fund my move to the modular world, I still keep quite close to it's design by my choice of modular modules (though I still want to get me the eurorack version one day!). I owned both the mbase01 and mbase11 and it was a total joy to use them. Not only by controlling the parameters by midi, but even immediate patch-switching at high rates is easily done by this little monster without a wink a drop op sound or a click. The extra features of the mbase11 were a warm welcome to the punchyness of this basskick. Each track has a different spectrum by choice of different instruments and effects which can muffle away the noise-part of a basskick when it only has a fixed shaped noise, but the mbase11 allows you to dial in exactly that part that is...

Based on 6 reviews

The sound is good and instantly gives off 808 vibes as expected. Programming is easier than on the original in my opinion, and there are a few extra sound shaping options which are very handy. Was worried if it would be worth it compared to using 808 samples as I did until now, but for me the answer to that is a clear "yes". The sound is nicer somehow, and the sound shaping parameters change the sound in a way that sounds much more "original" than what I can accomplish with plain sample manipulation. I think both approaches have their usefulness and charm, so I am happy to have both options now. I was very torn about whether I should get a Vermona DRM1, but even though the DRM1 is a lovely instrument and more versatile in regards to sound shaping (almost blasphemic to...