I really like what I see/hear, but to me the “round robin” grains when using as a poly synth especially noticeable at slow rates is a real problem.
What do you mean by that?
Are you saying the grain playback selection is the same every time, in the same order?
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More or less yes. I need to rewatch loopop’s video, he describes the behavior quite clearly.
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I’d have thought most of the fun of sampling radio isn’t sampling whole tracks, but weird little snippets from ads, intros, spoken word etc.
Even if sampling tracks, it’s a granular synth - even with pretty big grains you’re not really in strike territory.
I upload loads of music made entirely from samples - only time I’ve ever got a flag was when I had an intro that used like 20 seconds of a jazz track (and the consequences was I don’t get ad revenue on it, which I don’t earn anyway 
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I really wouldn’t know. Just repeated what a bunch of you tubers said while doing reviews 
Fair enough, probably about having an abundance of caution I guess!
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Maybe ridiculous, but I wish it also had AM radio 
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AM is often more interesting to listen to tha FM, the spectrum is messier and there’s more leakage. Of course, you can also connect a short wave radio…
Speaking of alternative tech, MPCs come with a free granulator effect that’s quite usable although it lacks the immediacy and hand-on delight of the Evil Pet.
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I got to scope one of these out in Italy as it was out on the shelf a day before all of the videos etc dropped. I was like “oh cool, I haven’t heard of that one!” and then happily forgot about it until my YT recommendations all fired off on my phone the next morning 
I liked the build quality and form factor. I should have bugged the shop to let me run their modular through it.
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Just got one of these yesterday and in my testing there are some serious limitations that folks might want to consider:
- KNOB RESOLUTION: Probably the biggest thing that no one has talked about. I haven’t found a setting for this, but all of the knobs seem to have some serious stepping. Even the filter has it, and it is apparent even at low resonance. It legit feels like there as few as 20 or so steps for the filter. The same goes for other params, like start time. This is a bummer for longer samples, because the resolution of the start time knob seems to match the resolution of the wwaveform on the display, which is quite low.
- NO LOOPING: The manual describes the buffer as a reel-to-reel style looper but there is no way to dial in the grain playback to send 1 grain the length of the buffer. So unlike something like a morphagene, you cannot freeze and loop a buffer precisely, only as clouds of grains it seems.
- OVERDUB / FEEDBACK: This is not a sound-on-sound style feedback. Both settings seem to feedback the wet output + effects, but unaffected by the dry/wet. So you can’t really do resampling of the mixed output.
- ERGONOMICS: My palms rest near the mechanical key switches, which are linear switches and actuate without any tactile feedback. Multiple times I’ve accidentally hit the play key (while there is a high release time set) and lost the sound without realizing what I did. This thing really should just have normal buttons or at least blue switches or something.
- POLYPHONY: Polyphony is handled by assigning pitch round-robin to the next grain being fired. So if you are playing a drone at low grain density, you will not get smooth playback of additional voices you add on top. It acts like an arp, so it’s not a true type of polyphonic playback where each key plays back its own voice that is controlled by the panel. Rather, each key gets its own set of grains.
There’s more, but these were the initial things that stood out.
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I often use the granulator effect one my MPC One+, but it really just does a Mutable Clouds verb kinda deal, IMO. Doesn’t really do the spitty “a thousand bouncing balls” kinda granular thing that well. Clouds is cool though
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Good to know! Mine should get here today
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thank you - i am almost out
but i hope in some positive feedbacks form other early adopters
Nice to get a different perspective. Isn’t it amazing how much YouTubers leave out! 
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Welcome to the community
(as it seems you joinded one hour ago and it’s your very first - and only - post)
Could you give a little more information about the context in which you are using this pedal?
Funny, in the Loopop video (which is mostly great) he gives an example of pitching something…can’t remember what, but he pitches something down…sounds cool, then as soon as he starts to pitch up, there’s a strange, abrupt edit
Hey! Sure. Sorry, long time lurker and finally got a reason to make an account and post.
The context for Evil Pet in my setup is as a messed up type of audio freezer I guess. My current setup is an OT + a small modular rack. The modular is basically a support system for Morphagene, which I use in my live sets to freeze audio into drones and loops to layer with sounds from the OT. I’ll play a sequence or sample into the morph as a new reel splice, play with the settings and find sweetspots, then record that output to another new reel splice, etc. etc.
When I saw Evil Pet it looked like a perfect lightweight version of the modular that I can take to gigs easier. So the context I put it in is more focused on dialing in tones that I can evolve and iterate on over longer periods, which is why resampling is so important to me.
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Wow, sounds great, thanks!
(If you have a link, I’d be happy to hear that setup in action!)
Ah…so you were asking an awful lot of this pedal! Sounds like you’re on a very interesting path and I’d love to hear it. Would an S-4 make more sense for your context?
Sure, here’s an excerpt from one of my live broadcasts:
https://lvoid.bandcamp.com/track/skybox
I’ve dialed in the sound a lot since then, but haven’t recorded any recent irl sets yet.
To be clear, I totally dig this thing so far! There’s a lot you can do with it, especially with how small it is. Most of the limitations can be worked around, or have some valid tradeoffs worth exploring. I’ll be trying it out in my setup and seeing how it does. I have a feeling I’ll end up using both the EP and the modular together…
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