Jesus that looks so much better, maybe you can sell vinyl overlays, it would be cheap and not too hard to install (I remember the Roland JD-Xi for that). It would be great if you want to share the file!
Would love a black moog-ish one.
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HiGrade1
It seems like your buddy isn’t the only one that would be interested, going to take some more exact measurements and look into laser-cutting a skin. Those flush keyboard holes are going to be tricky!
DannyO
Thanks!
- I primed + painted the stock faceplate with Rustoleom and used glossy for the color so the water decal could slide around easier
- Laser printed the graphic with black toner on a transparent water decal + applied it to the faceplate. I overworked the graphic a little trying to get the air bubbles out, which stretched the graphic and wore off some toner in areas
- Finished with a couple light coats of satin clear-coat
- I went too heavy with the basecoats so I had to shave off some layers around the keyboard holes. If I were going to do it again I would try to hit it straight-on to avoid building up layers on the sides of the holes.
Funk_Illuminati
Appreciate the kind words, I’m definitely tempted to try my hand at drilling an aluminum plate just to do a Buchla homage! Given how specific the aesthetic is of the stock graphics, my goal for this first redesign was just to make it as neutral/functional as possible, and look alright with the stock knobs (I think they’re a lil ugly but I’m pretty picky).
climasinteriores
Thank you! This is giving me enough motivation to try to get these vinyls made. DM me if you want the file to do your own DIY project, otherwise I’ll let you know if I manage to get some of these produced.
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Anyone with bleeding osc to the output? Got my West Pest yesterday and it produces sound when no key is pressed. Hold function not active. Tried to reset it holding oct up+down +c2 with no change… Created a ticket at cre8audio but haven’t heard back yet.
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`Got the west pest, borrowed from a friend - output doesn’t work. Fold out does, but is uncontrollably loud, and is just the raw signal coming from the filter. When patched to ‘output’ it does not make sound when I press the keys though the Dynamics controller LED does light up to the sound. Volume knob doesn’t make a difference. I was wondering if it was something somewhere in the controller interface that I missed.
Oh man…This thing rocks so hard! Don´t know if I ever had so much fun with a piece of synth gear from the very first moment. 
My wife got me the West Pest for christmas. 
Unfortunately it took me some time to even get started. Both the 1/8 to 1/4 jack cables I had were broken + the midi issues (as others have described) made it very hard to figure out what was happening. Lol.
The note hangers were a dead give away it was a midi issue, but it just spitted out crackling noises…The crackling noises seem part related to my broken cables and part to incoming notes, as incoming notes considerably made the problem worse. My hard sank…That wasn´t the type of noise I had in mind damn! Anyways, took me an hour to figure it out.
My AK can play it fine from the keyboard (haven´t tested AK midi seq, yet), the OT makes it freak out. It plays fine over midi from my DAW, tho.
I arrived at using the inbuilt sequencer, sending clock from OT works fine. This way I can use the inbuilt sequencer in sync with my other gear, it responds to start/stop, as well, and I can make use of the tempo sync lfo (multi tool modulation).
Btw, note hangers can be cleared with Yellow Button+Keyboard D (Hold). Engage hold and then press the button combo again to release note hangers.
Anyone knows how I can check the firmware? I guess there´s no button combo are smt like this? Have to plug into the pc over usb and use their little updater app?
Not sure if I would update if mine was an older version, though. It works fine (with limitations descrived above), don´t want to make it worse…
Btw, hi ya´ll. 
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I also got West Pest for christmas from my wife. Tried sequencing it from the OT, got the same issue reported above - each MIDI note activated the gate on both NoteOn and NoteOff signals.
Good news: updating the firmware to 0.9 fixed it, the problem is gone.
Semi-Bad news: The lowest MIDI note OT can send (C-1) is still actually C2 (65.5 Hz), so if you wanna play bass notes, use the transpose trick from above.
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Ha, seems to be pretty popular christmas synth^^
Thanks for the heads up! I´ll try updating later then. The 0.9 OS seems to be from september, so hopefully mine is still an older version and can be updated. This thing is so much fun and it sounds great!
I had some other weird thing going on with the Mulit Tool Mod, yesterday. I tried the midi cc to cv for the first time, yesterday. It only worked when the West Pest was in omni mode. It obviously responds to notes on any selected midi channel, but no midi cc was coming through. That was kind weird and unexpected. Don´t want to leave it in omni…
It worked fine in omni, though! The cv converter responds very nicely, I already expected some corners cut there, but I could throw lfos from OT at it, no problem. OT´s lfos even go borderline audio rate, so you can do some (low) fm modulation. Even works fine on pitch!
Yeah, there´s no actual rule how midi notes should translate to octaves. There are even differences between Elektron devices, but that´s something easily solved by transposing, albeit annoying at times.
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OS 0.9 seems to have fixed the midi buggers. Wowzers. I was so worried, having no means of downgrading in case shit got worse. So thx for the heads up again!
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Has anyone seen the cc spec lists floating around? I just got a WP and want to build a hapax def file for it
Digging this panel, nice work!
I’ve been wanting to try make one myself, and seeing this has me psyched to try one.
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Rad, curious to see what you do! I need to take some photos of how the west pest turned out.
I found that the hardest part was honestly measuring everything, and I’m still not 100% confident I got it all lined up perfectly. Also the knobs and their indicators aren’t super accurate, so adding radiating lines ended up being more of a liability than anything.
I’m no expert but hmu if you have any questions about what I did!
Did you make a new panel or just repaint and label the existing one? I was reading at work when I read the first time, so maybe didn’t catch the whole story at first.
Making a new panel seems daunting, especially with all the holes in this one. I have a buddy that’s a machinist, and found a panel manufacturer online, but getting exact measurements right for the whole thing and using their software seems like a lot to figure out.
An adhesive overlay seems easier to have made, but tough to get positioned just right on the panel.
Someone in another part of the internet was talking about using a 3d printer to make eurorack panels, but I don’t have any experience with those. I’m just a graphic designer, with a good amount of Illustrator and some CAD experience, but that was years ago.
My socket for the main audio output broke off resulting in no sound at all. I always treat my stuff very carefully and was surprised this happened tbh. It’s within warranty so I‘m not worrying about that but looking at the way it’s built I kind of doubt that anyone will bother fixing it but instead throw it into the giant pile of electronic waste and just send out a new one.
Bummer, I really dig the sound and want a fix/replacement asap. So patch extra carefully guys, those sockets are not made to last.
Hi!! The east beast is one of my first analog synths and I’m very happy with it but I noticed a drift pitch across octaves. I’ve used my Korg pitch black to get a C and when I going upwards the pitch is drifting more and more… And the C isn’t at 12 o clock in the fine knob… I don’t know if it’s a normal behaviour… I’ve read the manual and I can’t find a way to tune the oscillator… And I’m not good at electronics… Thanks
Hi all, i just got a second hand westpest for my eurorack and im pretty happy with it. İ mainly got it for the sequencer and its ammmmazing. Right now i have it on generative mode with the random clock setting and its clocking my whole rack so i can get crazy generative stuff. İ really really really liked the sound but for now its only a 200$ sequencer unit. There wasn’t any info online if the Midi pitch and gate outs were Midi only or cv aswell and wasnt clear in the manual but it is working like a charm. Very very usefull for eurorack.
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As I expected I got a new unit as a replacement for the faulty one. Good for me, bad for the environment… hope the rest of my old unit is at least good for spare parts.
If no damage happend on the pcb. I’d expect it to be fixed and then sold as b-stock. I hope that’s what will happen. It’s an easy fix. If there’s damage, depends on how difficult it is to repair, I guess.
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Thomann has its own repair shop but they‘ve sent it to a ”service partner“ (which I assume would be cre8audio) and after that it was decided that I‘m getting a replacement. Took about a week for the whole process so I doubt it will be fixed.
Had a similar issue with my rack mixer some time ago, everything worked except the USB part. They just replaced the whole board instead of just the faulty part. Guess it’s financially more lukrative to just replace the whole thing than spending labour on finding and fixing the issue.