Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Black

Description

Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Spectral Resynthesizer Black.

Rossum Electro-Music Software Architect Bob Bliss (who also, as it happens, fathered E-mus famed EOS Emulator Operating System) has created Panharmonium, a unique music and sound design tool that lets you analyze the spectral content of any audio signal and use that analysis to drive a bank of from 1 to 33 oscillators. Depending on various control settings, Panharmonium can accurately reproduce the input spectrum in real time or modify it in a multitude of wildly creative ways. All with an interface whose immediacy encourages performance and interaction.

Panharmonium input can be anything from a single oscillator to an entire mix (including vocals). From dense, swirling pads and drones that evolve with the inputs changing spectrum, to clock-syncable spectral arpeggiation, to as-yet unnamed harmonic effects, Panharmonium opens up an entirely new world of sonic possibilities.

Additionally, Panharmonium can take a snapshot of an instantaneous spectrum and use that as a complex harmonic oscillator, which can then be modified and modulated by all of Panharmoniums other controls.

• Width: 26HP
• Depth: 25mm
• Power: 140mA@ +12V / 30mA @ -12V

Features:

• Spectral Modifiers

These controls allow you to creatively modify the analyzed spectra.

TheVoiceparameter lets you select from 1 to 33 oscillators to resynthesize the spectrum.

TheBlurparameter (and associated CV input) is a spectral lag processor that controls how quickly the spectrum can change.

TheFeedbackcontrol lets you route the resynthesized audio back into the entire processing chain for subtle or dramatic feedback effects. At its max, the output becomes self-sustaining, even if the input is removed.

• Oscillator Bank

The Oscillator Bank resynthesizes the analyzed spectra.

TheWaveformparameter selects the oscillators waveform. In addition to the usual sine, triangle, sawtooth and pulse waveforms, two special crossfading sine and sawtooth waveforms are included.

TheFreqcontrol lets you tune the oscillators over a +/-7 semitone range. The frequency is further controlled by the 1V/Oct input and the FM input and attenuverter.

TheOctavecontrol, not surprisingly, shifts the pitch of the output by octaves.

TheGlideparameter sets the amount of polyphonic glide (i.e., each oscillator has its own glide circuit).

TheMixcontrol (and associated CV input) sets the balance between the original input audio and the resynthesized audio.

• Optional Functions

A number of optional functions can be selected by using theOutput ModeandTapbuttons.

Holding theOutput Modebutton and adjusting theSlicecontrol enablesDrums Mode, which optimizes the spectral analysis for drums and other percussive inputs.

Holding theOutput Modebutton and adjusting theFreqcontrol enablesSpectral Warping. In contrast to conventional frequency adjustment, where the harmonic relationships between the spectral elements are preserved,SpectralWarpingshifts the harmonic elements individually, producing a variety of clangorous, swarming textures.

Holding theTapbutton and adjusting theFreqcontrol quantizes the resulting frequency adjustments to semitones.

• Spectra Memories and Presets

Panharmonium provides 12 userSpectramemories and 12 userPresets.

TheSpectramemories let you store up to 12 frozen slices. When selected, a spectrum (up to 33 oscillators wide!) replaces any live input and can have its pitch controlled by the 1V/Oct input and FM controls.

A Preset is a snapshot of all of the module settings, along with the value of any CVs present at the moment the preset is saved.