West Pest Demo and Thoughts with Space Echo RE-2

In this video Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT) demonstrates the Cre8audio West Pest with the Boss Space Echo RE-2.
Get yourself a West Pest here: bit.ly/west_pest
Check out the Space Echo RE-2 here: bit.ly/spcae_echo_re2
"The West Coast folks couldn’t be like everyone else. They had to go all yoga mat, kale smoothie, and alfalfa sprout on the synth world. West Coast style is typically characterized by additive derived, rich and complex sounds. Often more traditional user interface elements are replaced by the abstract and experimental. Perfect for you sophisticated folks.
All that said, West Pest is actually not a deep dive into the abstract. It provides a wide array of sonic capabilities while maintaining a quick and easy workflow. You’ll make fresh & inspiring sounds in a flash without having to think about kale smoothies, unless that’s your thing, in that case, yes tons of kale smoothies, pitchers full of them. Anyway, West Pest’s huge sonic capabilities emanate from its modest bento box-sized (sprout-free) exterior.
If eurorack is your thing, feel free to pop West Pest out of its enclosure and transform it right into a 40HP eurorack module, or keep it in its case and use it anywhere for your West Coast style pleasure."
-Cre8audio
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Demo by: Matthew Piecora
Video by: Matthew Piecora ( EZBOT) and Steven Ly (Project 32)
www.ezbot.live

[@defjeff2907]

West Pest finally brings west coast synthesis to the masses! Amazing analog tones that are unique at this price range.

[@nsbd90now]

I'm a home hobbyist who got the West Pest and am having lots of fun with it. I like its tone and timbre as well as the percussive nature. This is my second semi-modular synth so the first time I can play around with modular synthesis and that is crazy fun if you like synths and those sweet, sweet analog sounds they can produce. It is like endless exploration, and very organic and alive in the moment as you can't really save things.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Wow it sounds like rings sometimes

[@davestagner]

What a cool demo! Thank you.

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Cre8audio. Well done. I love their Chipz module. Nice osc to have in your rack

[@stevencohen5116]

Nice job!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

nice combo

[@djformalin]

Interesting - thx 🎼

[@eddy_sonik]

I LOVE ! 💛

[@iamjamessmith]

Nice, bud.

[@fentanyljones6956]

Best sounding saw>folder i’ve heard. I imagine that’s the ‘massaging’ of waveforms the designer keeps mentioning.. maybe more of a skewed triangle?

[@digital_crickets]

I like the use of "buy into" the concept, because of course, you want to sell some stuff with these videos!

[@MarcoPolux]

great video! West Pest! ordered mine and it's about to arrive! the audio output, is it mono? and the Space Echo RE/2 then make it stereo..

[@noelbreitenbach8673]

This is a beautiful sounding machine! I was thinking about the 0-coast but with the little midi keyboard on this thing I might go it instead. Or both.

[@fentanyljones6956]

The slope generators on the 0-coast are hard to pass up in a semi-modular. I think it and the microvolt have the only full featured slope generators in an affordable semi-modular format.

[@zhoumygod]

I have the same problem… I need to decide on one 😂

[@edgodsall3740]

The O Coast destroys this…

[@goonfish]

​@@edgodsall3740 I mean... yeah, it *better* at literally double the price lol.

[@OppoOppo-px7zc]

Nice vid! Is the output mono or stereo?

[@javest]

The West Pest could be clocked from external trigger 1 PPS to move 1 step of the seq for each pulse received in clock in, without any regular sequence of pulse? I'd like to advance 1 step of the seq with one external "out of time" trig

[@Slowlyburnedelectronics]

Hi great video btw! I was wondering if west pest can do kind of unquantized pitch sequences like modular stuff (which is completely foreign to me). Sorry for my English, irs not my native language

[@goonfish]

Modular is only as unquantized as your sequencer & scaler (both in regards to pitch & note-timing), and there's everything in-between! If you mean pitch quantization, the WestPest can also be as loosly in/out-of-tune as you want; just tune the Oscillator as-such, you could apply LFO/noise/envelope/slew modulation to your Osc tracking for even more chaos like "true" modular patching allows.

[@rockymaldonado7758]

Hey! Does anyone out there know if you can control the note attack on the West Pest?

[@blkrbbt]

EZBOT! I dint know you were with patchwerks!

[@neuzethmusic131]

I want some West Coast flavor in my rack, but the decision is really hard between the 0-Coast and the West Pest... the Coast costs the double here in Europe. But it also has more functions, but on the other hand, I already got Maths in my case... Tough!

[@defjeff2907]

Go Pest!

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Pest for sure. Don’t always need more options. Pest does what it does really well with options.

[@EiseniaFoetida]

I have both and at U.S. prices I would say 0-Coast because it's such a beautifully designed synth that sounds incredible and is incredibly flexible, but double the price is pretty rough. In this case I think you should go Pest, especially since you have Maths. The Pest still sounds great and you'll be able to cover a lot of the same ground between the patch bay and your Maths. The sequencer is a very welcome addition as well.

[@roballen980]

I guess headphones jack can be used through output?

[@InFamousProductions]

super swell. I have one and just watched your vid, and It does have a unique sound that cuts through a mix of other machines. But it is a bit one dimensional.. except that I haven't put external CV into it yet.. I have a few Semi modulars like the Berhinger 2600 and a few others like that and I'll let you know what I think when I get that far. I'm still trying to figure out the menu. it's very easy.. until I figure it out and it will be a breeze I know.. but it does the best plucked sound out of anything . it just sounds like it's in the air like a real string pluck..

[@claudiongleur]

Did you hook the 2600 up to it yet? Curious to hear what it’s like with cv modulating it.

[@InFamousProductions]

@@claudiongleur hey maybe later today or for sure tomorrow. I'll post a vid

[@mntbighker]

The Midi implementation seems crap. Of course I'm trying to use Octatrack to sequence it. It's unpredictable and misses notes all the time. It doesn't send Midi clock unless the internal seq/arp is running, regardless if it's getting external clock via Midi. Unless you plan to ignore Midi for the most part and use it as Matt demonstrates, it's probably a hard pass. BTW I have the latest 0.11 firmware that appears to be newer than anything available for download. Edit: tested it with Nerdseq and the Octatrack was the problem. :(

[@eeoo5850]

It seems simple to use

[@edmontontech2008]

I feel my 0-Coast does this and more.

[@Kaleil]

All this and more at only almost three times the cost!

[@edmontontech2008]

@@Kaleil This is $249 and the 0-Coast is $499.

[@_EightySix]

Thing does some Koto sounds

[@BlisterHiker]

Sounds cool at the first glance, but lack of envelope attack control is a turn off for me. I know it's probably a part of their philosophy, but it really sucks. Thanks for the demo.

[@shaunscenard4154]

For the price, you could just buy adsr if that's what you want. But you are right, West coast typically doesn't use adsr. That's my understanding anyway. I think the oscillator and wave folder are each worth two fifty on their own. Pretty crazy.

[@huli8557]

The RE-2's output is mono in my phones..

[@dogboywonder]

The focus on the space echo makes me think that the west pest kind of sucks I had an east beast and it blew chunks

[@cougarman8]

It's usually the person, not the gear so...

[@shaunscenard4154]

​@@cougarman8 I think the is a psychological component here. People see an affordable prices tag and immediately a bias is created so they expect it to suck. But Pittsburg is really killing it lately. I don't really understand how they are selling these at these prices(slave labor?), Probably best not to know.

[@BarbieChaite]

you create the same sounds than if you were useing a "east" coast synth...

[@FlynnTaggart69]

I love listening to americans explain how the world starts and stops in America... it has not even ocured to them that the world might be bigger...