vermona perfourmer

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

Does anybody have experience with this synth? I am considering buying it, I like it's concept, and demos I've heard sounded very good to me.
I thought that it would be a good analog support for my nords, recently I've tried analog synth for a first time, and that changed my opinion that going analog wont make that much difference soundwise.

Vermona Perfourmer seems to be good choice, but I would like some comments from someone who owns it or have tried it.

schmidtc · Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 34 Location: Boston

I've got one. The sounds are great, but nothing other analogs can't do. It's not far from and SH-101.

What IS different is the way I usually end up composing on the thing; cycling through 4 voices in an odd X numbered sequence and then detuning, patching and dialing in a nice 4X length sequence that I'd have never thought of without the Perfourmer. It's fun, and I can't think of another synth that can do this while driven from an external sequencer.

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

Thanks! that's really good info. Do you think that the lack of fine tune knob is a problem? Is it possible to tune oscillators perfectly without it? I ask this because lots of demos I've heard were bit out of tune, but that might be intentional. And once you get it tuned, is it stable?

renevanderwouden · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject:

It's a great synth but it gets out of tune quick. On this video we did a concert and my friend Hajo Liese from EL-KA used this synth to do the sequences controlled with a Schrittmacher.

schmidtc · Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 34 Location: Boston

Agreed, a fine tune knob would be really nice. It takes some patience, but the pots are good quality and I've never not been able to tune it to my sonic satisfaction. I haven't noticed any drift and even it stays in tune after I power down and up so I can just leave it. I haven't really been scientific about it though and I always tune things by ear to a digital synth.

lanxe · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

I had both a perfourmer and a DRM and really liked both. The perfourmer sounds good and is a great fixed format synth.....But its strength is exactly as schmidtc said: it provides a different approach to sequences and can really make the track breathe.

here is a track i did using onlyone track of each Vermona perfourmer and DRM (dont mind the video) sequenced with numerology (highly recommended):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xjQfo0EY6A

tuning is not that difficult but isnt great either.

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

those are cool videos!

One more thing occurred to me - since I love using stompbox effects with my synths, I was wondering if is it possible to process individual perfourmer channels trough outboard gear, than return it back to the same channel, so that other voices stay the same (or may be processed with some other pedal)? Or I need mixer to do such routing (which could be too much hassle in live situations).

lanxe · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

Yes, both on the perfourmer and DRM, the individual channel outs can act as inserts.....meaning with an insert cable you can send the signal to an effects chain and then directly back into the perfourmer. This is nice because each channel can have its own effects chain.

Ryan

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

well that's neat!

I've red something about those inserts in some reviews, but I wasn't sure - can you send whole channel into effect and back, or just oscillator signal?

Anyway, those semi-modular capabilities are really cool!

softroom · Joined: Jun 06, 2005 Posts: 8 Location: UK

I had mine modified so that the tune controls have a much reduced range, plus I got switches fitted for octave selection - so the waveform selection control now only selects waveforms.

A great synth - not a huge array of different sounds maybe but what it does is glorious I think. Anyway, check my SOS review for more info..

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/vermonaperfourmer.asp

regards

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

my Perfourmer finally arrived! And it sounds great, I am very happy.

I've checked your SoS article, but I couldn't figure out that in/out patching you were proposing. I have tried all possible combinations, but nothing happens. Do I need stereo patch cable? I've been trying to connect two synth channels in mono mode, but all I have achieved is to make slave synth's LFO modulate master synth's VCO pitch (so, no filter or EG affected), with mono patch cable halfway down. I hope that stereo patch cable is the solution, cause nothing else works.

softroom · Joined: Jun 06, 2005 Posts: 8 Location: UK

Yeah you need an insert lead, the sort used for mixer channels (stereo one end, two mono jacks the other).
Have fun! Smile

Ivan · Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Montenegro

thanks!