Erica Synths isn’t any stranger to massive, area of interest devices. Just take a look at the SYNTRX — it is one of the wonderful and in addition impractical synths I’ve ever performed. And the corporate’s newest, Pērkons, continues that custom. It chassis really seems to be similar to the SYNTRX, a steel rectangle with barely rounded edges on the high and backside, and wood cheeks on the facet. Of course the interface is totally completely different, which is not shocking since Pērkons is not an homage to the Synthi AKS, however a drum machine. 

The core of Pērkons is a hybrid of 4 digital sound sources with an analog multimode filter and overdrive. The purpose is huge, thunderous percussion (therefore being named after a Baltic god of thunder) — in the event you’re moving into interested by a easy kick, snare, hat combo, you could be disenchanted. Unfortunately Erica Synths is being actually cagey concerning the drum machine proper now, so I haven’t got a ton of impressions to share. Though, the corporate says that it “tears down the borders between drum machine, synthesizer and drone instrument.”

What I can say although is that’s has a moderately attention-grabbing assortment of options. There are solely 4 voices / sequencer tracks, however every voice has intensive controls and will be saved as “kits” for straightforward recall later. You may also file automation to a sample (there’s room for 64 on the Pērkons however you may increase the storage with an SD card), or modulate parameters with the LFO. 

Patterns will be as much as 64 steps, with probability and ratchet controls for every step and there are 4 separate shuffle algorithms to maintain issues attention-grabbing. Plus an analog delay for getting your dub on and an optical compressor for punch.

Pērkons is clearly meant for the intense musician, although, not the informal knob twiddler. The dimension and €1,650 worth make that fairly clear. But it is much more apparent if you go searching again. There are separate outputs for every of the 4 voices, plus ship and returns for every voice, so you possibly can (in the event you wished) add a distortion pedal to your bass drum and a few flanger to the hats and… ring modulation to the snare, why not?

There’s no agency launch date but, however Erica Synths says Pērkons can be out by the tip of the 12 months.