Subjective
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Absolutely. I love how noisy and alive it is.
If everything is quiet you can definitely hear the LFO a tiny bit, and vintage mode on the BBD is pretty crusty too.
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I thought they had opted to go for a digital delay… or is it a very good digital emulation of analog?
It is yes 
digital bbd emulation. A very good one, to my ears anyway.
It’s a digital BBD emulation, but it behaves and sounds very much like a proper BBD. It also has a “vintage mode” which is just a bit noisier and less polite.
It does sound very convincing.
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I figured… I really want one… But I would have to sell my p6… and I can’t, I adore my p6… but it is so simple and mainstream, pulsar is so much cooler and deeper, I could have so much fun… I feel like you though, I just need to have a beautiful poly, nothing comes close, and that swampy sequential brass sound had always been my favorite.
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Should i sold my MD ? 
:dizzy:
No.
Because
MD is life. 
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I’d love a really knobby groovebox-type machine like this but I don’t think I can justify the price. I’m not complaining because I appreciate that everything has gone up in cost and it’s clearly built like a tank but it’s just a bit too rich for my blood.
I got my Syntakt back out for a quick play yesterday after focusing on the MC-707 since I got it a couple of weeks ago and I realised that I do miss having relatively simple (by which I mean easy and immediate) synthesis. This obviously has that in spades. I’m enjoying the MC-707 as it has an “ableton in a box” quality for working with sampled loops but the synth engine is awful to program and the menu-diving does get in the way a bit.
Anyway, massive respect to the awesome sounds here from @DaveMech, @Fin25 and others. Perkons is clearly a beast in the right hands.
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Any way to latch the damn Shift button?
Yeah, it’s a difficult one.
I’ve had to sell a lot of stuff (including my Syntakt) to pay for mine, and I’ve still had to beg £350 off my wife to cover it.
I just couldn’t not get one though, it’s pretty much everything I want in one box and the sounds it makes are right up my street.
So far I’m very happy with my decisions, but I can imagine it would suck pretty badly to go through all this and hate it, so the price does create a pretty serious barrier, for sure.
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I’ve not found one.
Also, has anyone found any circumstances where the LED on the shift button actually lights up?
You clearly have a very understanding wife. Mine is actually really supportive and she only complains if too much stuff (gear boxes, packaging etc) piles up in the house making a mess, which is fair enough. She stops short of actually funding the gear though!
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Well she’s just got a massive bonus off of work and she needed to butter me up before showing me the tiles she wants to put in the upstairs bathroom.
It’s all about timing.
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Thanks, I droped ES support and message suggesting a way to latch when muting or hold Shift like on Elektron.
My Shift LED doesn’t light up
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you can absolutely latch shift, press and release it fast to enter the “mute” menu.
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A few questions about plocks which I’m unclear on:
Is there any indication which steps have them and any indication of the value? I saw the quite ingenious way tempo is indicated, wonder if similar for locks?
If a track has locks what is knob behaviour?
Does it override locks if turned?
Is is pick up/catch or relative mode or a choice?
Any other info about plocks in comparison to other gear?
Gr8. Thanks
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but my shift LED doesn’t light up either actually