Rossum Panharmonium 1/2: explained

The Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer is a very unusual signal processing module: It studies the incoming signal, breaks it down into its most dominate frequency components, and assigns those to a bank of up to 33 oscillators to re-create (re-synthesize). You can choose which band(s) of frequencies to analyze and how often that analysis happens, and on the output side transpose it, blur it, decide what core waveform us used for the resynthesis, and perform other “mutating” functions including feedback looping.

This first movie gives an overview of how Panharmonium works. It does not dive into every individual feature (there’s a great manual that already does that); this is intended to give you an understanding of how it works, and to quickly get you up to speed using it:

00:00 examples
01:08 overview
01:53 audio ins & outs
02:27 starting configuration
03:17 the sound sources
03:36 Analyzer: Slice & Multiply
04:12 Modifiers: Voices
04:49 Modifiers: Blur & Gide
06:35 Analyzer: Center Frequency & Bandwidth
08:03 Modifiers: Frequency & Octave
09:08 Modifiers: Feedback
11:04 Spectral Warping
12:36 Modifiers: Waveform
14:14 teaser for rhythmic applications

The second movie in this set dives into a particular interest of mine: rhythmic use of the Panharmonium. It can be seen at    • Rossum Panharmonium 2/2: rhythmic uses  .

My Patreon supporters (  / learningmodular  ) at the +5v level and above also have access to additional posts on both of these movies.