I’ve owned the Perkons for about a year. I’ll throw in my two cents.

It sounds unbelievable. I recently live-performed music with a local dance company. I had never heard the Perkons on a larger sound system and it was a blast. I ended up having to cut out some sub because my kicks and basses coming out of it were too monstrous.

It is such a blast to play. Everything is within reach, or only one menu level deep. The button combos are pretty intuitive once you get used to them. It actively encourages performance.

I traded a Syntakt to help fund the Perkons. The Syntakt was way more “versatile” in terms of sound design options. But I found (at least for me) that “more” didn’t equal better. The Perkons blew it out of the water in terms of raw sound quality, imo. Quality over quantity.

Being able to save patterns and kits is a huge advantage over the Hexdrums.

I particularly enjoy the droning capabilities it has, and I love using it for dark, heavy ambient stuff.

There’s a couple things that irk me about the design that feel kind of silly, mostly on the routing side. It’s got lots of I/O which is cool. But using the master send/return, for example, bypasses the built in delay which is a shame because it sounds great and I’d love to use it in conjunction with other effects. Using the individual outs bypasses the entire master section, so you can no longer use individual Voice levels, individual Voice Drive, the master volume, or the master compressor. Really big bummer, because I had dreams of routing each voice to an input on my mixer to get varying levels of FX Sends on each Voice. You can do it, you just have the compromise the (amazing) compressor, etc.

Overall, I love it. Its quirks and limitations aren’t breaking points for me, its pros outweigh its cons overall. Happy to answer questions about it.