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
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Definitely up for some real-world examples in this thread!
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to this day i don’t even really know what the OT is and why so many people are raving about it
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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.
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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
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First thirty seconds are golden!
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It’s the batman utility belt of music hardware
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Couldn’t of said it better regarding the OT.
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).
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There are two very different synths here.
One i read about in a long text only post …
And the other one i can hear in the various videos and the audio that Snipecatcher so generously shared.
For me it’s only the second one that seems real, that actually touches my imagination.
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Hmmm this is now going up my GAS list, fast….
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.
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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.
More to follow.
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Look forward to hearing what you come up with!
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
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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)
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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.
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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
On 2nd listen thats sounding brilliant, pure music concrete / Radiophonic.
Thanks for posting @Snipecatcher 
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My pleasure!
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I don’t want to pre-order from PC and no instrument level 
At this point I might just velcro an Aira P6 to my board and call it a day.
Set up a new live board tonight for my weekly gig.
I got a lot of tidying up to do, but everything works so that’s a bonus. For this weeks show I just have the top row wired up in series. In to Line 6 HX Stomp XL>>Evil Pet>>GFI Specular Tempus. I’m going to have a friend sitting in on Tenor and Baritone sax this week and plan on running him through that signal chain. Been practicing and can see getting my gain structures right will take more practice and discovery, but it’s a pretty cool setup with loads of options. Silly OT side note; the new Zoom L6 Max is exactly the right size to fill the lower right hand side, but I’m just not sure I need it right now. Still really like the sound of the Evil Pet though and think it’s going to fit in nicely with my live process
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nice set-up!
how do you find the zoom as a mixer? I was considering a L6max, I am coming from a Mackie 1202