Cre8Audio's East Beast is a fresh take on old-school concepts with a few beastly twists thrown in here and there. What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "synthesizer"? Close your eyes and think about it. Ok, enough you're drifting, probably thinking about pineapples.

Anyway, for a lot of people, the word synthesizer evokes visions of big filter cutoff knobs, envelope generators, and importantly, big fat-sounding voltage-controlled oscillators. These are the hallmarks of East Coast style synthesis, and what Cre8Audio was going for with the East Beast.

Oh and by the way, if you are into the whole eurorack thing, you can pop East Beast out of its included enclosure and it transforms right into a 40HP eurorack module. Cre8Audio should've called it Optimus Beast!

- Mighty Big Oscillator you got there...:
East Beast's oscillator, designed in partnership with the too serious for words people from Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers, is a part of their 5th generation of analog oscillators stemming from a super-serious 10 years of continued research into analog oscillator development.

Its circuitry is not a clone or based on any outside designs. It is made with 100% modern components. This keeps it very stable, and giving it a super rich, and unique sound. Definitely not junk.

- PGH Filter? What in the flying banana pancake monster is that?:
Cre8Audio's uncomfortably serious friends (if you can call them that) at Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers are just as serious… read more about filters as they are about oscillators. Frankly, it's a bit obnoxious. Anyway, this is a really really really good filter...More on that to follow.

Most of the filters you are used to hearing are transistor ladder filters, or copies of transistor ladder filters. This is not one of those. The whole goal in making this filter was to create a creamy smooth filter with no dead spots, a very common phenomenon in all filters, but check it out. No dead spots. From nasally to biting and elsewhere, it's all one large sweet spot.

See spot sweep? Good spot, sweet spot! Ok, this is just getting weird...moving on...

East Beast's filter is a multi-mode filter, meaning it can be used as a low pass filter, high pass filter, bandpass filter, or a combination of the three for an even wider sonic palate.

Tons of filtery fun ffs.

- Shape the beast in your own image:
To further sculpt the sounds, Cre8Audio included an envelope generator & LFO. The custom envelope circuit creates a snappy, percussive attack for expressive performance. The dual range LFO opens up a wide range of LFO and audio rate modulation possibilities.
Get wobbly & weird, or not.

- Get patched.:
Semi-modular means that the East Beast will work without any patch cables or anything. But what fun is that? Who doesn't want to have their own personal spaghetti mess of cables sticking out of their synthesizer to get wacky with? At the very least it makes you look super sophisticated to anyone observing. Anyway, East Beast has basically 9 different patchable modules (Oscillator, filter, envelope, VCA, LFO, multi-mod tool, sequencer, MIDI to CV converter, and button keyboard) with a whopping 18 Eurorack compatible patch points to plug into itself and your other gear. All for your patching pleasure.

- MIDI too!:
The East Beast has MIDI in and a fancy MIDI thru so you can chain multiple MIDI monstrosities together.

- Performance non-junk-stuff:
But wait, there's more! East Beast includes quite a few additional performance features. Why not get extra beast-like by getting serious like Cre8Audio's friends at Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers and dive in with its built-in tap tempo clock, arpeggiator, and sequencer. There's a lot of opportunities to inject in some randomness too. Pizza! Was that random?

Features:

- East coast style subtractive monophonic synthesizer
- Controllable via MIDI, CV, and integrated button keyboard
- Fully patchable - use East Beast's components as separate modules with external devices or reroute its internal patching. It's like having 9 individual modules (Oscillator, filter, envelope, VCA, LFO, multi-mod tool, sequencer, MIDI to CV converter, and button keyboard).
- 32 step sequencer with up to 13 presets
- Generative sequencing mode
- Clock-synced arpeggiator
- Step sequencer can be manipulated & transposed via MIDI and the integrated button keyboard
- Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer developed 100% analog oscillator
- Oscillator waveforms - sine, triangle, saw, square, and pitched noise - Waveforms can be combined
- Oscillator includes pulse-width modulation (PWM) and frequency modulation (FM)
- Variable state, multi-mode PGH "No-Dead-Spots" filter (lowpass, bandpass, highpass, modes can be combined)
- Analog envelope generator
- Integrated VCA
- Dual-range analog LFO with triangle wave output
- Digital multi-mod tool - modulation control via CV, random generator, and extra LFO and envelope generator
- Internal clock with tap tempo and can be clocked via an external source.
- Built-in clock divider
- Can be used standalone in its included case or removed and used as a eurorack format module
- Specifications for when used as a eurorack module
- Width when used as a module = 40hp
- Depth when used as a module = 25mm
- 213mA power draw when running +12V rail
- 151mA power draw when running -12V
- Input voltage range of oscillator = 0-10V
- Included in the box - 1x East Beast, 1x East Beast wall-wart power supply, 5x Amazing Nazca Noodles Patch Cables, 1x 3.5mm to 5 pin (Type "A") MIDI Din pigtail, and love (love's presence likely, but not guaranteed)

WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm - www.p65Warnings.ca.gov.

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