Man, FedEx is especially bad in my neighborhood…watched a big delivery truck drive by my house like 3 hours ago or more, but they didn’t stop and don’t appear to be circling back. No Evil Pet for me today! Guess I’ll just go f$%k myself
I have a gig in a few hours anyway, but I hate waiting around on these folks who just don’t seem to care about their service anymore
EDIT- The plot thickens…then thinned Right after I posted this, I got a notice from Perfect Circuit saying my package was delivered…except it was not delivered. Once in a blue moon stuff gets taken to the back of my house but it wasn’t there either and it was signature required anyway. I went to see if there was some way it could’ve fit in my mailbox and while I was out by the street a lovely family drove by and said they just received a package with my address on the label
Good people doing the right thing really makes the day better
Didn’t have a ton of time today, but spent maybe an hour with the EP in a pretty basic way, since I’m not even sort of familiar with it. Theres a few factory installed loops on the SD card, so I opened up all of those and played with the settings. Sounds nice and covers a lot of ground. Made me think one good use case would be to load a few things on the SD card for live song transitions. I wasn’t crazy about the saturator effect initially. We’ll see if that changes. I’m also fairly sure I’ll run my GFI Specular Tempus after Evil Pet for bigger, more hi-fi verbs and delays.
Next up, I played some guitar through a Line 6 HX Stomp XL into Evil Pet, captured a loop, hit record in Logic and pressed the Random button on EP over and over for about 20 minutes and recorded the whole thing and am chopping it up into loops for the usable stuff. Great way to make food for the samplers, I’m thinking. One interesting thing to me was, when I was randomizing the guitar loop, very little of what came out resembles a guitar sound. Mostly sounds like percussion loops. That’s not a good or bad thing to me, just an observation. A few of the loops have a similar sound/feel to me as mangling stuff on an Octatrack. Kinda off to a fun start with this thing. After my gig later tonight I may finish chopping up the ‘best’ loops and if anyone is interested, I’d be happy to upload a 5 minute or so clip of the results
cancelled my order with perfect circuit… after studying and restudying every piece of available information I’m confident that I need to wait and see what else becomes of this it’s just not for me right now
I believe you
The Elektron Octatrack is widely considered to be one of the more iconic and innovative pieces of hardware ever made for modern electronic/experimental music. I fully agree.
Ok. sound design round 1 with Evil Pet is done…I’m not sure anyone will find any value here, but I recorded a very simple guitar part into the Evil Pet, tweaked it into oblivion, randomized stuff, tweaked again and so on and recorded all of it for 35-40 minutes as it turned out. I chopped it up into loops that are anywhere from 4-16 bars long and put them back to back in a timeline. I focused on making lots of it quite dry so I could make those reverb/delay decisions later inside a finished track. Everything is just one simple guitar part into a Line 6 HX Stomp, then onto the Evil Twin. Next session I’ll go for prettier, more melodic stuff, but this is what it is
Back to Evil Pet @Snipecatcher loving that audio example- totally out there and you are reawakening my gas for this box (love the form factor of it and haven’t gassed for an affordable grain synth before).
My Iridium is usually first in line for granular mangling madness but I only have the one Iridium and I also love its VA engine and (obviously… Waldorf….) wavetable chops plus the resonator engine is capable of properly fun weirdness. Kernels engine a mixed bag but I have other options for that anyway.
Evil.Pet seems to have a very cool thing going here for not a lot of money, nice small footprint, proper knobs and (for me) appealingly bonkers colour choice.
Liking this a lot and sound examples in this thread are excellent.
I rarely insta-buy anything anymore but something about this just got me. Talk about the right product coming along at the right time.
There’s a lot to like here already but I think the firmware, as it stands, needs some work. One issue I have had buying “boutique” instruments at this price range is that sometimes they end up as abandonware before the product really shines. I’ve seen plenty of firmware activity from endorphin.es already so I have no reason to suspect that.
One final observation is that whatever happens I think putting a screen on this was a very, very good idea.
I’ve been pretty busy lately. On a short tour now, so I’ve barely started to dig into what can be done. But from my brief time with it, the thing I personally like about it is that it sounds different from any other granular device I’ve owned. Not that I’ve owned a lot. Arturia Fragments, morphogene, Nebulae II, Instruo Arbhar and Clouds. With all the modular ones, I found the sweet spots to be narrow and they all got a bit samey to me. After just an hour or two session with the Evil Pet I was able to get everything I got from all those great modules, plus a whole lot more. I also don’t take anything to a gig that doesn’t fit on my XL Pedaltrain board, so for me, size was a factor. I currently picture using it in several different ways. Studio sound design being the main one, but I’m also keen to see how well it does in the studio as a synth. Live I intend to use it to process guitar, baritone and or bass vi parts as well as song transitions. I have a good feeling it will move around and serve different functions well
Just started exploring mine and I can confirm that you don’t hear the round robbin effect if you disable anti-aliasing. Here’s a recording while jamming with it of big chords with max grain rate and long size. Not as clean as the Tempera but still quite lush sounding! evilpet.aif (9.4 MB)
Thanks for this, I especially love the first minute - I assume this is really chopped up but could you post the raw guitar recording? Just curious about the original tone through the Line 6 for comparison.
I thought of doing that but forgot
When I get off the road tomorrow I’d be happy to play the original bit. For now I can say it was a pretty normal guitar patch. Small amount of drive, delay and verb
