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PANHARMONIUM

Mutating Spectral  

Resynthesizer

Copyright 2019 Rossum Electro-Music LLC

www.rossum-electro.com

Operation Manual

_070419_v06

Summary of Contents for PANHARMONIUM

Page 1: ...PANHARMONIUM Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer Copyright 2019 Rossum Electro Music LLC www rossum electro com Operation Manual _070419_v06...

Page 2: ...y 7 5 Make Some Noise 10 6 The Spectral Analyzer 11 7 The Spectral Modifiers 15 8 The Oscillator Bank 16 9 Assigning CV1 and CV2 19 10 Managing Spectra and Presets 20 11 Updating Software 23 12 Utilit...

Page 3: ...peed One that we highly recommend is Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming 2nd Edition By Jim Aikin Published by Hal Leonard HL00131064 Another great source of information is Chris Meyer s Learning...

Page 4: ...part of the module While all Rossum Electro Music modules are protected against reverse polarity damage both to your module and your system care should still be taken to connect the power cable correc...

Page 5: ...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 o...

Page 6: ...als From dense swirling pads and drones that evolve with the input s changing spectrum to clock syncable spectral arpeggiation to as yet unnamed harmonic effects Panharmonium opens up an entirely new...

Page 7: ...on the left side of the pot and narrow to wide notches on the right side of the pot The ability to sweep the frequency and modify the bandwidth under CV control opens up a wide range of sonic effects...

Page 8: ...t audio and Panharmonium output Assignable CV Inputs In addition to its dedicated CV Inputs Panharmonium provides two assignable inputs CV1 and CV2 that can be assigned to control up to three paramete...

Page 9: ...trum 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 o...

Page 10: ...the button again to deselect the preset or spectrum Once you ve selected a Spectrum or Preset you can play Panharmonium via a CV into the 1V Oct input Or try modulating some of the other parameters I...

Page 11: ...nput Panharmonium transforms the incoming audio into spectral information it then uses its most recent spectral analysis to drive its Oscillator Bank That analytical data is used until the beginning o...

Page 12: ...ne second to toggle between Freeze Tap Mode and regular tap mode The Multiplier LEDs will light steadily to indicate Freeze Tap Mode NOTE Although the internal Slice Clock will not be initiating new s...

Page 13: ...n multiply or divide the slice time When set at 8 the slice time will be exactly what is set by your taps of the Tap Opt button or the pulses arriving at the Tap Sync input Settings of 4 2 and 1 succe...

Page 14: ...o clock position it sets successively wider notches the marked units are the widths of the notch in octaves VERY IMPORTANT NOTE Depending on the setting of the Center Frequency control and how narrow...

Page 15: ...Chapter 9 for details BLUR The Blur parameter is a spectral lag processor that controls how quickly the spectrum can change with each new slice At its minimum spectral changes happen virtually instan...

Page 16: ...Slice time and listen to the result A NOTE Keep in mind that while crossfade waves and oscillator glide both affect the transition between slices they are two entirely different effects With glide th...

Page 17: ...er and the upper elements being shifter higher As the knob is turned counterclockwise the spectral elements are shifted closer together until at the minimum setting all of the oscillators are forced t...

Page 18: ...jacks In LR FX Mode the Mix control fades between the summed left and right input signals appearing at the left output and Panharmonium s processed signal appearing at the right output Mono Patching...

Page 19: ...ribed above or when pressing and holding Tap Opt for at least a second the top three Spectra LEDs will display CV1 assignments as labeled If no parameters are currently assigned to CV1 the three LEDs...

Page 20: ...familiar with Panharmonium you ll save your own creations over them However if you think you might want to use some of them in the future you can simply save some or all of them to WAV archives and re...

Page 21: ...s Center Frequency and Bandwidth values a Preset s Center Frequency and Bandwidth values and the Panharmonium panel s Center Frequency and Bandwidth values In these cases the overriding rule is Last...

Page 22: ...s also moderately likely that you may never even encounter this situation but if you do you ll at least know what s going on A FINAL NOTE If a preset is saved without a spectrum selected when that pre...

Page 23: ...lectro com support support request form and we ll help you get it handled Hints for Playing Back WAV Files The basic requirements for successful WAV file playback for software updates and data transfe...

Page 24: ...too low your computer generated extraneous audio etc you can just correct the problem and try again However we ve found that rather than just playing the file again from the beginning it s usually ad...

Page 25: ...AV data Do not use an MP3 recorder 2 Press and hold Tap Opt Freeze Output Mode Option and then the Preset 4 button The Preset 4 LED will flash The Output Mode LR FX LED will also flash to indicate tha...

Page 26: ...cate the error Press Preset 5 adjust your WAV player s level if necessary and try again If you continue to have a problem get in touch via our web site http www rossum electro com support support requ...

Page 27: ...y for additional transfer actions When finished press the Output Mode Option button to rerun to normal operation 8 If the transfer wasn t successful the selected LED will flash rapidly and the Preset...

Page 28: ...chatter to the input Again good with full mixes Preset 5 Glidey Sine Quartet Four sine waves with a rhythmic element defined by a slow slice time Use tap tempo to sync it to a rhythm track or other e...

Page 29: ...Major chord captured from a music track Spectrum 6 Dsus A Dsus chord captured from a music track Spectrum 7 Peff Wave 1 The first of three complex waves captured from a Buchla synthesizer by our good...

Page 30: ...the system s 5V and 12V supplies potentially damaging the power supply and any modules that use 5V To prevent this Rossum Electro Music modules deviate from the standard Eurorack power connector by le...

Page 31: ...sum Electro Music team to Patrick Aurelio Andr s Eichstaedt Nancy Enge Reek Havok Mihai Ionescu Kurt Kurasaki William Mathewson Chris Meyer David Phipps Bill Putnam Jr Kirk Southwell Ben DivKid Wilson...

Page 32: ...contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS A...

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