Cre8audio West Pest synthesizer review

Cre8audio's second little synth is the West Pest. Inspired by West coast synths it has a big fat wave folder and a fabulous Dynamics Controller that gives it a very different feel to the East Beast.
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Index - 0:00
Intro - 1:17
Overview - 6:22
Wavefolding - 9:21
Oscillator waveforms - 15:26
Dynamics Controller - 17:54
LFO - 25:20
Multi-wave noodle with delay and reverb - 29:25
Sequencer and Arpeggiator - 31:23
Multi Engine - 34:50
Couple more sound demos - 39:37
Conclusions - 42:01
Duelling synths - 47:36
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[@cybermortal1983]

semi-modular synths in this price range. what a time to be alive.

[@BarbieChaite]

check out behringer neutron. quite the same price and more features...

[@tillorrly1128]

@@BarbieChaite except this is a west coast synth.

[@BarbieChaite]

@@tillorrly1128 except I don't hear the radical difference of sounds that you can produce on both. 😢

[@sungong8052]

It's a synthesizer workflow or philosophy. Wavefolding has a different feel than Filters. A LPG with a simple envelope feels different from a VCA with a four-stage envelope. Moog and Buchla both have their advantages but also limitations. Sometimes working around those limitations is the most inspiring thing as a sound designer. It's kind of like Fender vs Gretsch, if you just record someone strumming a G chord they sound mostly the same, like a bright jangly clean guitar, but each one having their own quirks inspire people to play differently. The reality is if your playing a simple sequence into any synth it kind of becomes that G chord. It's as you get into the weeds, and start stretching out on the instrument, then you really begin to understand the differences.

[@BarbieChaite]

@@sungong8052 the problem is that I read a billion times that the philosophy is different... but I hear a billion times the same sounds (that you can make on a east coast)...

[@enricopallazzo8510]

Like Jim Morrison used to say: "The West Is The Best". Cool synth. Thanks for the Review

[@dgoldstein]

Finally received mine. I ordered it the moment I saw it listed. I love my East Beast and use it regularly, sometimes just to set up some fun sounds as a background to doing chores. It took me no time to get to weird places with the West Pest, but knowing how the sequencer and multi worked got me into some exciting jams really quickly. These synths are well made despite the somewhat less conventional designs and plastic cases. You can get caught up in just knob twiddling because there is so much responsiveness for performance. Expertly designed with some of the best sounding oscillators. Really good for anyone just sticking a toe into semi-modular, as patching can get you a lot of value but not so complicated as to intimidate.

[@tonverfall_studio]

I've had this lil' puppy for a couple of months, and have only really started exploring its outer limits over the last month. Routing the 'fold out' into 'FM' sounds AMAZING. One can also get much longer release times by setting the 'multi' option to the longest envelope setting, and then routing that into 'dyn gate'. I've really been enjoying that combo today with slow, randomized sequences.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

I like the sound/features of this, and at the right price. I love that it is compact, tabletop format, with built in 32 step sequencer, and random capability. Thanks for the great review.

[@coolo73]

Excellent demo and review. A very tempting product that brings something different to the synth world at the low end range. Fits perfectly in the space between a Volca Modular and a O-coast. Getting both a East Beast and West Pest seem like a lot of analog fun for $500. All you need is to add some FX.

[@zadude009]

Thanks for your review - I bought the East Beast based on your review - still waiting for it to arrive. This seems to be something that we do now days - wait for everything to arrive in stock - so fun. I love how you go into these things in depth and you get to see the possibilities of what you review. I appreciate that greatly. I learned a lot from this channel - thanks for everything!

[@James-yk5ge]

this is a very enticing little piece of gear. I feel like there's been a massive hole in the market for a west coast style synth box around this price range. I like the sounds from this box a lot. The bang for your buck and sound quality at this price range has me taken aback

[@valdir7426]

at least in euros it's very close to the price of a used 0-coast. a side by side comparison would be nice.

[@Screenshot1015]

0 coast in USD is around 500$ this thing is 250$

[@burnssuck]

@@Screenshot1015 This is one half of 0-coast, the west part. combine the two for 0-coast, IMO

[@LarsBjerregaard]

Great review and demo Robin! Very smart synth design in that little box.

[@nsbd90now]

I want one. Edit 3 weeks later: I pre-ordered and am anxiously awaiting. In the meantime, this is the most excellent tour of it to watch more than once. I really appreciate how you describe the sound quality, i.e. "slaps" and percussive elements... the "Conclusions" section was terrific like that. The "Dueling Synths" conclusion was really good. Thanks!

[@robaire.b]

Great video and amazing synth, especially for the price. Good to see something different and West coasty that is afordable

[@andrewmarshall195]

Love that patch with the two together! What an amazing machine the West Pest and for that price its sublime value, esp with the quality of the sounds. Even though I probably dont need it, I am hugely tempted.

[@JeffHopkinsMusic]

Very nice! Thanks for another amazing review :)

[@GregDixson]

first time here. Really enjoyed your comprehensive yet clear and understandable walk-through of this beast (Pest!). Came looking for the sounds demo which you've showed off plenty. Certainly an impressive box and and at budget too. Subbed for future. cheers!

[@TheFatdust]

around 30 mins in, total YES vibe, well done

[@obsidiananvil9719]

Cool review Robin. These are both just insane value-for-$, particularly (but not exclusively by any means) those new to semi-modular, or eurorack. Brilliant!

[@vurttv6415]

truth! even just the sequencer, id have happily paid this price for that!! to get so much in such a small footprint at such a small price, almost insane!!!

[@gkillmaster]

Never heard it explained so well and now thanks to you I think I understand my Buchla Easel and Madrona Labs software better. "It's always under stress" is the perfect way to put i!! Thanks!

[@illegalLettuce]

Im new here! Just got a behringer ms1 to learn basic synth sound design. DUDE! I love how you easily explain things so my brain can comprehend AND also your magician hand gestures! I dont know why but I like it. Youve really helped me understand the magic of analogue synthesis THANK YOU

[@PaulBoos]

Nice complementary synth! Really loving this Pittsburgh Modular an Cre8audio collaboration....

[@hoagy_ytfc]

I'm enjoying the birdsong in the background. You can hear it throughout but it's particularly obvious at 15:18

[@delmeteor717]

Thanks. As always a great video. Look forward to West Pest arriving tomorrow. Love to set funky electronic sounds to combine with guitar rig for some definitely out of the ordinary music jams.

[@zpinkLondonBelow]

Great demo, thank you, Sir! I already have an 0-Coast, but will deffo pick one of these up when they become available! :-)

[@Screenshot1015]

They’d be an amazing duo

[@spazimdam]

Wow thank you. A useful review you've got here. I learned things that weren't covered in other West Pest videos I've seen, like that the sustain control affects the harmonic content of the wave. That's so cool- it's like driving the signal into a unique kind of clipping. I am definitely getting one of these to explore and experiment myself. And that 0-scope you've got would be handy fun too! Watching the last bit of this I'm thinking that I need to get the West Pest and the East Beast. I'm already imagining syncing their clocks and having both sequencers running, but with different sequences. Oh yeah gotta do it.

[@Somewhere_sometime_somehow]

Very informative video, great!

[@CmdrMic]

Awesome! Pre-ordered!!!!

[@ChristopherOrth]

Great demo, thanks!

[@gkillmaster]

Love the jam!

[@josephdeane9158]

Wowzers! i now want both!

[@stephenspackman5573]

I just realised, seeing these two together, how cute it would be to have semimodulars that are each exactly one octave of keyboard wide, that you could then bus together to make longer keyboards with polyphony. Semimodularly, you know.

[@burnssuck]

Love the enthusiasm! Getting eight voices this way would be more expensive than better options on the market for this to happen. Still, I'd love to see this operation anyway, as linking eight devices in time is more complicated than timing one device for the same output.

[@stephenspackman5573]

@@burnssuck It's true, though I doubt anyone gets into modular thinking, wow, this will be cost-effective. But it _would_ be incremental, and I think the concept of semimodularity and expander-ism that embraces the control surface could be worth exploring just as a direction in the art of device design.

[@nicholasbaines7868]

Dear Robin, I'd tune in just to watch you read out the phone directory. I think you're brilliant. Your modular music is getting better & better. Can't wait for the UK tour. !🎵🎵🎵😎😎

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Wow, thank you!

[@Cubo1d]

I'd have to agree. He comes across very passionate and engaging.

[@Snowdeaf]

I wish they'd had this at Superbooth! Sounds fantastic. As did the East Beast.

[@rayderrich]

It is bingy, bongy, klangy and slappy! Thanks for demo-ing this device, fun stuff.

[@benbauer1065]

Yea I'm the same way. I have a Korg minilogue xd, dreadbox typhoon and moog werkstatt. I don't need another mono synth but then this thing came around with it's wavefolding and low pass gate. I'm sold with the klangerous FM folded sounds

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Gr8 review and demos. Your flowery shirts pale in comparison to your similes and metaphors. I know which one I want, but having the pair would be awesome. Need more HP.

[@konradsiudek8713]

You got a new subscriber here sir. Quality content, cheers ✌️😎👌

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Awesome, thank you!

[@defjeff2907]

I've been making similar sounds with Cre8audio Captn Big O and the pgh Dynamics Controller Bat. My first experience with west coast style and loving it!

[@jammystraub488]

You're liking The Bat? I've always been tempted by the older Dynamic Impulse Filter.

[@defjeff2907]

@@jammystraub488 Yes I am! I've only used it with folded triangle wave from Big O. I patched that first day and it sounds so good I haven't changed it. I just joined the pgh fanclub so I'm not familiar with the module you mention.

[@jammystraub488]

@@defjeff2907 It was an earlier iteration of the concept behind the Bat. The guys at Pittsburgh have indicated the Bat is a new design though. I appreciate the positive feedback! I ordered mine after seeing your response 😃

[@id.unknown1283]

This would work in my desktop modular set up (it's comprised of Hungry Robot modules, 2 Sonicsmith Modulor A1 units, and Error Instruments brickys) it is very experimental and this seems like a good fit Nice review!

[@WxkR]

Something rather strange happened to me with the release of this synth. I was super excited about the East Beast; my GAS was triggered and running high. Then I saw the West Pest videos and thought “this is cool, I also need it” but, then, its sound made me remember that I have, in a box, a 0-Coast and realized it sounds amazing and does everything these do, perhaps more (at least for my creative needs) and my GAS suddenly disappeared. Regardless, I hope people buy tons of these bc they’re really good at a fair price.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

I have O-Coast and O-Control too, but I like how this combines the sound, and keyboard/sequencer in one compact device.

[@aaaaargghh]

True but this one is way cheaper, 0-Coast sound so good but the retail price for the west pest is 250$!!

[@WxkR]

@@aaaaargghh absolutely! I’m just commenting regarding my particular case. If I did not have a 0-coast I have no doubt I’d have already ordered the WP, or both the EB and WP.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

@@aaaaargghh I agree, and even though I have the O-Coast/Control + Strega, I would like to have West Pest too, as it has a lot of nice features in a small package, for a great price.. I love little groove boxes, I can play with, while sitting on the couch :-)

[@FredF78]

No matter how new stuff make you believe you need it, go back to your existing gear and rediscover them, and they arent that bad after all. You might think you need new things of some kind of fear of scarse but they will often be around for later on the market.

[@danogden4291]

5:08: my brain blew a gasket...which is always exciting!

[@tesseractive4567]

Finally, someone delivers an affordable little West Coast box that's way out of the Volca Modular's league. Completely patchable to Eurorack and can even mount in a rack? Yes please. And it sounds absolutely fantastic.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

My thoughts exactly

[@unisonosc1617]

damn! I'm going to need both of these. :D

[@jammystraub488]

Woot! Very cool.

[@walrtbstudios5430]

I had been eying the Buchla/TipTop oscillator as a way of ‘westernising’ my modular rig, but this looks by far the better bet- an admirable desktop synth in its own right for barely more money than the mere VCO… I think you may have swayed me…

[@Paintopia_VR]

Thanks for the review Robin, looks like a cheaper alternative to the 0-Coast. Sound nice too! I'm coming round to the oversized knob.. Would have been nice to see an onset for the lpg envelope as the 0-Coast has one and its doing something very similar.

[@pfmmodule5144]

Hope to get hands on with it at NAMM

[@gkillmaster]

I can't help but wonder if I'd reach the boundaries of the pest soon. I really want to pick this up but am uncertain how much potential for great variety of sounds. Will I be able to continue to eak out new sound or will I end up in a cul de sac quickly?

[@NOLNV1]

I kinda wanna get this, I often struggle to motivate a purchase of another classic subtractive mono as I have a Bass Station 2 and it just does everything, but this... This I have an excuse for...

[@NoyaD9]

As i understood it's not a subtractive synth

[@jonasbarka]

@@NoyaD9 I think that's his point.

[@NOLNV1]

@@NoyaD9 Yeah! That's what I mean, I already have that so this would provide something different and new!

[@clivenimmo3155]

I had to subscribe after that comment about, taking a trip but not to blame in on the west pest. Lol made me laugh my socks off. Took me a while to find them.❤😊

[@partsproject]

Can you lock one of those self generating/random sequences if you land on something you like, and then feed randomness into it again?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Yes, I believe so by turning off the generate function

[@sammadden5540]

CALLED IT! Really wanna hear someone compare it to the tiptop buchla osc, I really want one just for a kick voice

[@marc.w.7692]

die kraft/logik kopplung gefällt mir... also die radien der knöppe und ihre wirkung

[@asynchronicity]

My garsh - that *IS* a knob I could turn all day.

[@burnssuck]

Make Noise 0-coast or Cre8 East Beast + West Pest? that is the question I need resolution to.

[@gushingcloud303]

For those knowledgeable about this instrument and modular patching - would it ever make sense to buy two of these to experiment with patching together in weird ways? Or would two of the same thing be redundant? I wish there were more cv inputs/outputs but maybe with two you could get some pretty wacky stuff. Also, would pairing with a moog werkstatt have a lot of creative room for patching the two?

[@sn1000k]

I've considered getting a West and east. Tho Id like to see it done before I buy

[@ingenuk4266]

If it comes up with a nice random sequence, can you lock it off and loop it?

[@MarcoPolux]

Love this little machine.... I am thinking now more West style... maybe a Tiga

[@jeepee2]

How does it compare to the 0-Coast? Is it a cheaper version of it?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

In a way it is but the West Pest is less mysterious, more understandable and so perhaps less ambitious. The 0-Coast has levels to it I don't fully understand which unfortunately made it useless to me, whereas this doesn't seem to have that level of frustration.

[@blkrbbt]

Sorry to keep commenting (help the algo?). But I got my West Pest, and I am just matching the dials, and as you sweep the filter, I do the same, and its literally identical. Shows the oscillators anf filter are really top notch. same harmonics, nice and stable. And I have 2 DFAM's that with the exact same settings, each DFAM has same tuning, but a slightly different tone(which I prefer.) Gotta say, its quite fun to follow along!

[@cecilkeebler4254]

Hey @Molten Music Technology, great overview. BTW, what is the scope HW you are using here...the Korg/Patch and Tweak scope?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Ha, no, it’s a 20 quid mini scope from china via eBay

[@coolo73]

@@MoltenMusicTech Link please?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

google is your friend

[@narcense1110]

this thing is for poets rather than musicians. I just ordered one! I always wanted to be a poet :-)

[@harrywoodell7008]

Have they lost their Marbles? Where is the Source of Uncertainty? At least Pgh makes a very happy sounding resonant LPG. And the wavefolder - awesome!

[@gooneybird808]

Man I wish some of these semi modular dream synths had a little pitch bend wheel!

[@stephpearlskozlowski1949]

you can control it wiyh an external pitch bend wheel ;)

[@nositrecords]

Looks great! Can you please tell me where I can get that little oscilloscope you were playing with what model is that and how did you connect it to the synth? Do you need some PL adapter for it? Thanks!

[@MoltenMusicTech]

It's a chinese DS0138 mini scope - you get them off ebay for like 20 quid. It comes with croc clips so you just clamp one on the tip and one on the sleeve of a patch cable. The rest is fiddling about with the mysterious buttons until you get a display that's useful. That's as deep as my knowledge goes.

[@seffers007]

Did you have issues with a constant low-level sound even when not triggering the envelopes? I have had two units with the same problem - a quiet-but-constant tone all the time, so you have to use with a sound gate. Rendered it useless for me unfortunately.

[@geerhoar]

It sounds good for being relatively inexpensive.

[@makato01]

Hello, I found your video really very good and it convinced me. I already have my west pest since last weekend. I have a question to ask you. Which multipurpose semi-modular (low cost) Behringer or Moog do you recommend to complement it, thinking of using it later as part of a Eurorack? One of the qualities that I think it lacks is an ADSR and an atenuator. Thanks.

[@blkrbbt]

First I came to you for the Malevolent... Now Im here because of West Pest. In the little info paper that comes with it, it says it had patch examples on the website, and I coudn't find them. So I emailed them, and just like PWM, they said they were busy with product development and never got around to it. Its all good, because they sent me a list of links to get help, and you are on that list! They also suggested I try searching "Cre8audio West Pest". HuRr DuR.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

I must say that’s slightly frustrating. Those are the sorts of details Moog handles really well.

[@blkrbbt]

@@MoltenMusicTech I know! I have them all! Matriarch, Gma, 2 DFAMS, and the SubH. And they JUST put out another patchbook!

[@csilt]

Cool video over all but I have two suggestions for you. Use a shotgun style mic for your voice to reduce the sound of your fingers against the buttons while playing sounds and get a y cable to split the output so you can send one to your oscilloscope and the other to your audio interface.

[@jonasbarka]

I would like to see a comparison with 0-coast.

[@FROZ333]

yeeehaw

[@re8et355]

Have you had any problems with stuck buttons?? I have mine jammed after a few days, hope to get it back soon... I was just starting to have fun with it...

[@MoltenMusicTech]

No, I haven't

[@re8et355]

@@MoltenMusicTech Oh, solved it, it was some strange exclusive mod. Hard reset solved it.

[@InFamousProductions]

great vid , I've been trying to figure mine out, and the manual suuuxxxxx. so confusing. now I just have to figure out the midi aspect

[@BarbesDub]

very interesting this synthesizer mono top format top sound, I have a used Minitaur and find it less fun, I think the East Beast can be a good bass synth for digital reggae, dub uk and dub techno

[@freejazzbone]

nice video, thanks, do you think the West Pest would be a good pairing with Pittsburgh Modular TAIGA, or too unnecessarily similar sounding with each other?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

I would say there's a lot of the West Pest in the Taiga

[@freejazzbone]

ya, ok, but say in a big band, jazz stage band, there are usually 4 trombones, 3 tenor and 1 bass bone, quite musical blend, individual players, etc. i guess synths are a different thing, what would be a perfect pairing with TAIGA, Microfreak? thanks, great, serious depth level videos as always MMT! @@MoltenMusicTech

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Depends on what you want. Often people are looking to have a range of timbres rather than repeating the same sort of thing. So you could get two Taigas, or four West Pests - if you want. For me I'd be looking for something that offers a different sound, so maybe something digital like the minifreak, or a wavetable synth. On the other hand you can't have enough analogue so maybe get a Dreadbox synth alongside, something with some different character. There really are no rules or perfect combinations.

[@freejazzbone]

minifreak, yes another amazing sound design tool, lot of great gear out there, thanks for all your interesting view points,@@MoltenMusicTech

[@OtterLakeFlutes]

sounds like if I have a Behringer Poly D and I want to splurge on either the East Beast or West Pest, the West Pest is more of a true addition of new, and less quadrupling up on stuff like adding the East Beast.

[@rick-sr9nq]

What you're saying about low pass gates isn't quite true, at least on any LPG I've used. Patch a trigger and you get the boingy strike thing, patch an envelope and it behaves more like a traditional VCA. This is just an LPG with a pre-patched envelope.

[@blankfrancine]

Great video. I am at a loss as to how the 1/8 midi out can be plugged into computer's usb port. There are tons of midi Din cables to usb_c, but they are of course useless cuz the synth only has 1/8 port, no standard midi. I love the sounds but if I had realized it would be so difficult to send midi to the Pest I probably would not have purchased one.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

It uses regular MIDI - there's nothing funny going on - it just doesn't have a USB port. It comes with an adapter that plugs into the 1/8" socket and gives you a regular, everyday, 5-pin DIN MIDI IN port. If you want to use this port with your computer then your computer needs to have a 5-pin DIN MIDI OUT port. Many audio interfaces have MIDI ports built in, as do most keyboards and MIDI controllers. If you do not have one then you'll need to buy a MIDI Interface - these are cheap and plug in via USB and will give you the MIDI ports you need to operate the West Pest and any other synth that uses MIDI. I hope that helps.

[@Bernstein_Electrum]

hy sir . where you getyou bottom up shirts from :)

[@MoltenMusicTech]

JoeBrowns and BlakeMills

[@neonblack211]

this does sound really organic

[@zyxyuv1650]

I'd like to see a West Pest vs 0-Coast comparison of features and audio side by side

[@MoltenMusicTech]

O-Coast would win for complexity, West Pest would win for simplicity

[@davidadams6863]

I'm new to this although I've always played with synthesis via cheap casio keyboard and zoom guitar effects pedal. I adore Buchla sound and came across the west pest. But now I've seen the 0-Coast. I'm on a budget but I could suck it up and get the 0-Coast. But I'm thinking the West Pest is probably better just to see how I go. I think you'd concur?

[@prayingelephants]

Could I potentially use this to sequence a Strega?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

What’s a Strega?

[@prayingelephants]

@@MoltenMusicTecha Make Noise semi-modular tone generator!

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Probably. It has midi and cv out - if that has midi or cv in then yes 👍

[@MarvelousMixinMiguel]

Hi Molten I just received the West Pest but I'm having trouble getting the Midi in to work. Could you do a quick walk-through video. I read the manual and reached out to Perfect Circuit to get some input but it's the weekend. I feel like I have a bad unit, I'm not new to synth. My controller works on all of my other synths. BTW: Thanks for putting out videos on KZbin. They are very helpful. I watched you go through your modular journey from day one. Your videos started me down that modular path.... thanks a lot! I'm enjoying my journey in creating music. It's very different than getting a synth that just plays without other gear. Very expensive way to make music. Thanks again and keep making videos

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Hey, I’m away at the moment but 90% of midi problems are down to cables. Make sure you have the right type of minijack/midi connector - that’s what trips me up every time.

[@MarvelousMixinMiguel]

@@MoltenMusicTech Thanks for replying back. I tried 5 different midi cables. No sound off the west pest. All of the cables are in great working condition. Cables work on my other 10 synths. I reached out the Perfect Circuit to see if they could give me some advice. If midi doesn't work I will return the unit. Hoping that's not the case because I do love the sound off of this unit. Everything else works great. This was a preorder since Father's day. I received it yesterday. If anyone has any suggestions, comment below. Thank You.

[@user-qu4vs6gy5o]

@@MarvelousMixinMiguel My East Beast was set to MIDI channel 4 from the box. Could that be it?

[@init-crioxica]

Nobody got it with other eurorack modules like Mutable Instruments Plaits... No any video on all youtube =(

[@monsieurb6869]

I bought one.... but for the life of me I can't figure out how to change the midi chanel ? on that West Pest

[@MoltenMusicTech]

You have to embrace the cryptic LED interface. The manual says: MIDI Channel: MIDI channel can be set using [Yellow Edit Mode : Note Button G#]. Press once to check current channel. Press again to advance through channels 1-16 and omni. 4-bit display shows active MIDI channel in 4 bit binary! 4-bit display blinks for omni.

[@monsieurb6869]

@@MoltenMusicTechThanks for your help Cryptic indeed ! It worked I pushed does button a bunch a times and got lucky , now my midi chanel is on 4 and I am now sequencing the west pest with my Beatstep pro !

[@ottsch]

But is it worth it if I already own the 0-coast?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

If you understand the 0-Coast then this is perhaps covering much of the same ground. But then you probably have more than one subtractive synth because you appreciate how synths sound different and having more than one source of something is no nad thing.

[@ottsch]

@@MoltenMusicTech well, I always seem to land at some kind of reed Instrument sound with the 0-coast

[@SuperEgido]

I would like to hear a demo with bass sounds. What little I have seen seems very interesting. But I would like to hear something more dedicated to bass. Thanks. And, if possible, with direct sound, without hearing the clicks of the keys. Thanks.

[@dogboywonder]

This review is complete. I don’t think he’s taking requests

[@iNuchalHead]

Has anyone ever built a West style polysynth?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

West Coast synthesis doesn't traditionally involve a keyboard and so polyphony is not really a thing. Instead you'd have multiple voices that you could sequence an control in polyphonic ways. Otherwise, FM synths would be one way of looking to that sort of thing - but it's not the same because of the keyboard focus - it's just not what West Coast is about.

[@edmontontech2008]

There was absolutely no need to crap on Buchla and Moog like that. Those two people are the reason you made this video. Show them the respect they deserve please.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

What's that now?

[@bingobills]

Are you related to Look Mum No Computer by any chance?

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Nope, but he's a nice guy

[@electronicbagatelle]

If I get this I'm painting that button yellow hah

[@fransiayala7386]

🤠

[@robertsyrett1992]

Why would they call it a pest? I think it sounds fantastic, seems kind of like a marketing misfire to complicate the impulse to purchase with such obtrusive connotations.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

They are funny people

[@JeffHopkinsMusic]

I think literally because they wanted rhyming names with east and west. West Incest just isn't as catchy......

[@robertsyrett1992]

@@JeffHopkinsMusic Best of the west. Also I would have prefered zest, quest, or crest. I like to be associated with those things. I do not want to be a pest.

[@prayingelephants]

@@robertsyrett1992 quest is a good one

[@prayingelephants]

Would have been a perfect opportunity to go for a campy 80s fantasy novel cover vibe

[@jalsiddharth]

F for the marketing department that decides to give up on the potential of the "Beast series" branding just so that their two words rhyme. F, again for calling their synth a "pest".

[@JasonCunliffe]

West Test

[@cnfuzz]

Seems like you can't get away from the fm tone with this thing

[@mewantgoodmusic]

I knew it . hahahahahah

[@mimikova390]

Mr. Robin, I watch you often I like seeing what you do. BUT, this time you went on about the LPG on the West Pest. I thought you were setting up the opportunity to use the envelope on the East Beast to control the pest. Dude, you are a modular guy, I'm a little disappointed. But for sure I will keep watching.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

I think the LPG side is the unique feature of the West Pest and so running the oscillator through the VCA of the East Beast would just turn it into the East Beast - it's the same oscillator. Or, if you mean patching the envelope from the EB into the WP - there's no VCA on the WP you can't use the EB envelope on it... I did use the internal mulit-function envelope on the fold in the video. But you can't account for every scenario and I'm really sorry you were disappointed :(

[@mimikova390]

@@MoltenMusicTech I agree that the LPG defines the character of WC synthesis. Just when you pointed out the gate and its limitations you sounded a bit bummed(that's a medical term). I can also see that turning people away from the pest. I guess the bottom line is I wanted to see you patch the envelope in to show the flexibility of the two together. I did not know you could not patch the envelope as I have never touched one. That seems like a big miss to me if you cannot. If I have been offensive, I meant no harm, I only punch the guys I like, Be well.

[@MoltenMusicTech]

Good gracious no offence taken or felt. It was a valid question. I certainly could have done more patching between the two 😁

[@spacefacts2553]

G.A.S.

[@spacefacts2553]

The east beast hasn’t even shipped yet and I’m still so interested hehe

[@gountberlin1669]

tight snyth... but fuck that unit... where do i get that kind o'shirt, mate? pasley innit