cre8audio East Beast

cre8audio East Beast at a glance:

• analog desktop synthesizer
  
• Semi-modular
  
• 18 patch points + MIDI in/out
  
• Oscillator with 4 waveforms
• multimode filter
• ADSR envelope
• LFO with triangle waveform
• VCA
• Multi-mode tool
• Sequencer
  
• MIDI CV/Gate interface
• Mini keyboard
• Can be used standalone or as Eurorack module
• Specifications as module: 40 TE / 25 mm / +213 mA / -151 mA
• developed in cooperation with Pittsburgh Modular
• incl. 5 Nazca Noodle patch cables
  
• incl. power supply
  
• incl. MIDI-TRS adapter

Sequencer, Arpeggiator and multi-functions

The buttons in the lower third of the user interface promise much more than 13 notes with octave selection and shift button want to reveal at first glance. Here you have access to the sequencer with its 13 patterns, the arpeggiator, Clock dividers and multipliers, Clock sync for the LFO and the multifunction generator. The latter can be used as MIDI CC output (e.g. modulation wheel), as second LFO with triangle waveform, as random voltage or Decay envelope. For quite a few features there are variants respectively changeable values in the shift menu. If you prefer to use all the functions directly in the Eurorack system, simply remove East Beast from the case and place it in a Eurorack case, where it takes up 40TE of space.

The patch panel

Often one or two cables are enough to turn the sound completely upside down. If you connect the oscillator output to the Filter Mod input, the result is Filter FM, which is one of the most extreme modulations. It also gets exciting when the VCA is modulated by the fast LFO in the audio section, which creates amplitude modulation respectively sideband modulation. Since the MIDI CV/Gate interface also outputs control voltages, the filter could also be played with Keytracking while the waveform of the oscillator is animated with the multi-modulator. These examples cover only a small part of what East Beast alone is capable of.