People will buy it and love it and make music that will make me jealous so really it’s all irrelevant haha
I’ll rejoin the ‘lets be excited about wavefolding’ crew. I’d like to see some of these ideas in a 60hp unit tbh - it’s a bit surprising they didn’t do a westcoast unit for the soundstudio.
It’s all based on a few demos so far; almost no one has had hands-on experience with any of these. Each of them is lacking in various respects. But the Cre8audio / Pittsburgh Modular devices look more promising to me.
West Pest - Has potential as I don’t have a West Coast synth. Has sequencer
Mavis - No sequencer, no CV in for wave folder, but more patch points than West Pest
For me it depends on what I decide I want to add to my setup. Mavis has attenuators and other utilities that might be useful.
If both Cr8audio semi-modulars appeal to you, have a look at 0-Coast, which combines East and West Coast designs into one module, but you do give up some stuff if you choose that, like less total oscillators and stuff.
I’ve been thinking about Mavis as compared with West Pest and 0-coast, too, and don’t own anything comparable.
It seems like another point of comparison is that West Pest and 0-Coast work with Dynamics sections and Low Pass Gates? And can both I think modulate fold? Mavis, while the demos make it sound very flexible and powerful, seems not to move this far “west”?
I’d be very curious to know what difference these things make in practice, and if there are other significant differences besides those mentioned (sequencer, MIDI is a big one for me)…
It’s £350* and not really DIY, you just screw the faceplate on. It’s a bit of an odd aspect to it IMO - maybe the faceplate-attachers are on strike this month.
* At Thomann, so probably a bit more elsewhere
I do like peoples suggestions of using it as a paired voice for a 60hp module - with the Sub and DFAM especially I see lots of creative potential, less so with the M32. But I still can’t escape the fact you could buy 1 or 2 normal Eurorack modules and be better off in almost every way… it would look cool though, and the ergnomics of the central patchbay would be fun.