Rossum Panharmonium 1/2: explained

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

i got this module coming from Greece , in a couple of days ,- so im so happy for this great explanatory video - you , Kim and Benn has become my favorite tutors into modular !

[@beardymcbeardface69]

I'm really glad I stumbled upon this. I've been planning on building an anonymising voice changer using two Teensy dev boards, one performing a FFT on the microphone end and the other playing back the recorded harmonics. I figured if I reduced the number of harmonics recorded and played back, in addition to independently and randomly shifting their pitch to small degrees, that I could remove the timbre of the persons voice, while still retaining legibility in the output "speech". After seeing this I am really shocked at how identifiable the woman's voice is with only a few harmonics of it being played.

[@Zinfidel1]

This was so helpful and concise. Would love to see a Mob of Emus vid.

[@jovinl283]

this video deserve so much more views

[@sphaghettisessions3577]

Brilliant explanation of a fascinating module. Would love to see you do a video on the Mob of Emus!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Superb tutorial and demo. I really like Dave Rossum's stuff so powerful. I just got the Trident and Morpheus Z Plane filter and have mob of emus on the way.

[@moonzero-xm7014]

Best demo I've found of this thing yet. Thanks a lot!

[@arnaubrichs]

brilliant module

[@fedesartorio]

Wow, this is my ambient / sound design dream device. Excellent video and explanations!

[@LearningModular]

Thank you for the kind words - glad I could help you learn about the Panharmonium!

[@mikebrodhead]

Super helpful. Thanks, Chris!

[@IceLocus]

This is so cool, Chris!!! Great explanation. 👍

[@KordTaylor]

Excellent video Chris! I feel dumb that I didn’t know Dave’s box was doing spectral analysis/resynthesis. Need to stay on top.🤪

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

I love the way you can generate synthetic being speech.

[@filo1210]

I’d love you to do a tutorial on the assimil8or . Great video 👌

[@LearningModular]

Noted. I'm just afraid it would be a veeeeery long video series...!

[@davidsimons5944]

Next thing on my wanted list if I've the patience to save for it as there are cheaper modules out there! Very unique & interesting though.

[@lkurashov]

Thanks for the explanation! Now it makes sense for me how it actually works. Just one stupid question. When I set the bendwith knob on max, does the analyzer ignore the frequency set on centred knob?

[@LearningModular]

I'm afraid I don't have my Panharmonium anymore, and I can't remember how that worked. Sorry...

[@vincentprimault4380]

Last time i heard a voice effect as the one at 01:00 i think it was in the movie Prince of Darkness. Very fun.

[@KeithCanisius]

Good idea! I run stereofiles from my sampler into it. But if it processes in mono will it then leave out the the R channel from my Morphagene? Will the stereo sound file/sound from Morphagene then not get passed through the panharmonium and dissapear?

[@LearningModular]

It collapses the stereo input to mono, and outputs a processed version of that. The wet/dry mix blends the mono processed output with the stereo input.

[@KeithCanisius]

@@LearningModular I see, so the effect of the PanH is mono on 100% wet, giving the exact same sound on each side (L&R) But if I have it 50% wet I hear 50% of the orginal stereofile?

[@KeithCanisius]

@@LearningModular if it collapses it to mono, it draws sounds from both L & R in the stereofile. I often have different instruments panned L & R coming from my Morphagene and now through my new Pan H. - :)

[@staticdeclarations6058]

What was that audio clip from of the woman talking?

[@LearningModular]

Gloria Steinem's Address to the Women of America, July 10, 1971 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_to_the_Women_of_America). I got it as part of a CD called Great Speeches of the 20th Century.

[@staticdeclarations6058]

@@LearningModular Excellent, thanks for the source :D Great explanation of the module, completely sold me on getting one. Seems absurdly useful for murky/garbled ambient tones

[@KorhanErel]

Sound like the output is distorting/clipping.

[@graviton9282]

Korhan Erel sounds like it’s supposed to...

[@KorhanErel]

@@graviton9282 i have been working with spectral synthesis for years. This sounds a bit strange. Perhaps it is because of the source material used.

[@graviton9282]

Korhan Erel yeah. Good point, I think it’s likely not just clean sound, true...

[@LearningModular]

The source itself was very "cloudy". But beyond that, there were two possible places for distortion: On the input side, the Disting I was using for playback likes +/-8v; the Rossum digital modules are clean up to +/-5v and then perform soft saturation in analog to get +/-12v to fit inside +/-10v, which is what they digitize at. On the output side, the Rossum digital modules can go up to +/-10v full scale, while the Moog Mother-32 starts to clip the aux input at +/-5v. Just another reminder of how important it is (and how much of a pain it is) to keep an eye on signal levels in Eurorack.

[@KorhanErel]

@@LearningModular thanks. I thought there was something strange. Spectral processing does sound cloudy but this was not that. About levels. This is one of the reasons I keep only a small modular case and focus more on non-modular synths. I won't spend a fortune on modules just to make it function properly. :) This Rossum module is nice but way too expensive - another reason my modular case is small :))))

[@jedgould5531]

When making music and patching, I find this too difficult to use, with mysterious knobs indicating slice/drums, multiplier, voices, blur and feedback. Patches take time and this makes them take lots more. I really tried to pay attention to your video. Maybe I'm just stupid. But I still don't know how I would set these parameters. And look! There are TEN more! There are also 15 buttons, plus myriad CV inputs and outputs. This would be okay if it were alone in my rack. But it's not. I am looking for a sound to go with my music, not a Gloria Steinem science experiment (she's 88 and still hot, btw). Beardy -- the last commenter -- sounds like he's happy anonymizing voices.

[@hypnoz123]

Sounds like you shouldn’t have bought something you don’t understand, with no clear idea how it would integrate with your music.

[@jedgould5531]

@@hypnoz123 I do that a lot 🥰🤓🤩😎🥸

[@moondog297]

Where is the sample coming from

[@LearningModular]

The drone is from a Cycling 74 sample CD called Incidental Gestures. The speech is by Gloria Steinem.

[@slarbslarb]

Welp, RIP my wallet.

[@remkm1715]

this is how R2D2 was born?

[@Seekthetruth3000]

I'm new to this stuff. So, basically this gives a monophonic sound a stereo effect and more?😏😏

[@LearningModular]

It's very different than that. It deconstructs a mono or stereo sound into the individual harmonics that it is made of, and then reconstructs it with new waveforms, pitch offsets, and the such. So it's sort of a sound transmogrifier.

[@yongamusic]

The one thing it does not do is give monophonic sound a stereo effect. 😃

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

Gloria eh? Interesting speech choice now that we are immersed in near max collectivism (identity politics). In any event well explained exploration of the Panharmonium, thanks!

[@LearningModular]

FWIW, I recorded that video roughly a year ago, and that particular speech has been in my "voice loops" collection for some time now.

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

Learning Modular I'm just grinding your gears 😏. Make no mistake I very much appreciate your contribution to my own modular exploration. Channel is aptly named!! Cheers.

[@taftjackson9165]

yeah I honestly had to stop the video. For one, that woman is a nutbag. And secondly it's clipping to all hell. I wish he would have used a sound source that was actually.. well... musical. I appreciate the channel still, just had to sit this one out

[@buzzfunk]

Just way too expensive for what it does.

[@LearningModular]

To each their own. If you don't want/need what it does, any price is too expensive, yes? ;-) Just in technical terms of what it can do, I honestly expected it to be at least $100 more.

[@graviton9282]

Rossum has great stuff. style and design.

[@Perversion12]

@@LearningModular Just starting full-on modular, and this was my first purchase. 3 years no interest at Sweetwater, so I decided on one big purchase instead of a number of smaller ones. Kind of an odd first modular piece, but I have a few semi-modular pieces (Minibrute 2, a Koma "pedal" and another "pedal," a Sonicsmith Squaver. Did not need a filter/LFO/oscillator, as the other devices can supply those functions, so I went with something I could not do with any other synth.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Dave Rossum is a Hairsplitting, Nitpicking Sound-Engineer L E G E N D ! And consider yourself a PARTICULAR lucky dude , just to ponder on his inventions ! - This marvel of a Complex module can be used in ways , you even cannot comphehend ! - This module , being beyond your paygrade, says Notn´Bout the myriad of ways , its designed to work, aswell as the ways its , nonintentional CAN be used , to get sounds , never heard before or since !