Heh. I really question their demo strategy, but I guess it was enough to show some of us the potential of such a thing.
I had one for about a week. It was a busy week at the modular, but I decided it wasn’t for me. I had preordered it back when, and it arrived right after I decided I was going to rework my modular to have a bit more focus.
Where I liked Panharmonium was at a slower clock rate, preferably tempo synced, harmonizing with the input. Something like a fancy shimmer reverb/freeze delay. Outside of that I found it a little hard to work with and to make it fit in with what I want to do.
And I realized that for the freeze/harmonize case I’d probably be better off with Clouds, in terms of timbre and options and easy of use. So I sold it quickly and picked up a Supercell instead. I think that was the right choice for me.
A tracking output would definitely have been cool. I had the idea of using its output to drive a PLL to patch with another VCO so I could derive a V/OCT signal, to use with a bandpass filter on the original signal (whew!) but that’s pretty indirect and unreliable, especially if you set it to more than one oscillator.
One thing I did a couple of times was run a VCO through it, then feed its output back through an FM input of that VCO, and record that VCO and Panharmonium as a mid/side pair. Fun but kind of gimmicky and I wouldn’t want to do it all the time.
