The West Pest is an all-inclusive desktop little baby attempt at the "West Coast" style synthesizer. The West coast sound, as opposed to the "East coast" sounds of Moog, is known for Don Buchla and his Buchla modular systems and their use of wavefolders instead of filters and low pass gates, among other modules that are ... perhaps a little more esoteric than the typical subtractive synthesis methods.
Here is a video of a first little run through or test with the piece. It has a little patchbay for rerouting the internal layout. This was my first West Coast-style synth, although I've had some modules in my frac system that do LPG's and wave folding, but I must admit the buchla can be intimidating with all of its "abnormal" features.
Big knob that's not a filter knob? It's a FOLD knob!
This thing has a sequencer and arpeggiator built in, I'm still trying to get into the nuances of everything. It's just more blams and blips, pretty much, but this thing definitely has some personality. I'm sure there's a way to get it to do something a little more musical and not just sound FX stuff...At any rate, it's a great entry level price for some West coast synthesis action!
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