I have decided….To get the West Pest!

[Headphones73]

So I looked at my budget. I only have 3 Hungry Robot Modular pedals to pick up, the Sequencer, VCF & LFO. My budget is about $250, and to get all 3 would run me $400. I kinda thought “Well, why not just chill on the pedals? And just pick up a new semi modular synth?”. So I figured, The West pest is already a sequencer (with midi/cv), arprigator, and LFO already.

So I’ll purchase it this Friday on Reverb.

[kingosleemer]

Mine's arriving this afternoon from Detroit Modular. I've been thinking about getting Pittsburgh Modular's Dynamics Controller Bat, for 250. Then I kept thinking about the dynamics controller in the West Pest being theirs, and about all the other stuff I'd get with the west pest. I don't think the dynamics controller bat and the one in the west pest are identical (pretty sure there are additional controls on the stand-alone module,) but I'm excited to try the rest of the west pest stuff. I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to rack it.

[Headphones73]

Just placed the order. So now I just patiently wait. Sigh.

[Headphones73]

West Pest arrives today, so I have all weekend to enjoy playing with it and seeing what all the hype of West Coast Synthesis is all about. Probably use my Moogerfoogers for delay/ring mod & plenty of modulation possible with my CP251. Can’t wait!

[Polarflux]

If you rack mount a random patched Mother 32 upside down turns out it makes it west coast.

[Headphones73]

Hahaha, funny. I guess a Moog Mavis upside down is a East Beast??

That being said, I’m about to turn it on….The West Pest anyway.

[Headphones73]

Holy Toledo! The WP is a rather strange synth! I've seen plenty of YouTube vids where it seems to make a pluck sound. Kinda like a banjo. Mine doesn't seem to make that, even with patching JUST the WP to it's internal patch bay. But for fun I did patch it to the TD3MO & Crave. It gets strange quick so I can only imagine if I get a East Beast to use with the WP that you can get all sorts of modulation. The manual provided is just 1 page so you almost have to view the PDF manual online to get a sense of why it does what it does. I haven't decided just yet what I want out of it. Strange effects, or just weird ways to mutate patches. I might just have to rack it into a Nifty Bundle. Which might be my next purchase. I hope I'm in the right place for learning west coast synthesis?