random polyphony panning in stereo?

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Hi

Is there for example a piano panorama option? So that the lower tones on the left side and the higher on the right, of course the mids in the middle. I also want to achieve a different order than from one side to the other or ping-pong. Also random for example. But I mean a CV solution in polyphony, not an audio signal with a panorama!

SPREAD modules may do not offer complete freedom. But there is the METRO CITY BUS MIXER module from GLUE THE GIANT, but unfortunately when I modulate PAN, I do not like that there is a built-in slow-down, so through a slow slew one channel is moved to another place, not quickly or exactly according to the modulation. And I am afraid that the built-in SLEW, in the above-mentioned BUS MIXER module, is there because SPREAD modules may not be able to work with long tones in any other way than just arranging them chronologically, either from one side to the other, or ping-pong.

Thnx

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Well here is an option for spreading the notes Low/High to left/right

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The v/oct is controlling the pan module (I inserted an offset to exaggerate/narrow the spread).

BTW when you use a s/h you could generate random values by using the gate, to pan randomly.

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The External Distribution setting in stoermelder ORBIT may be worth a look.

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… I mean to distribute the channels inside the polyphonic CV panoramically as I want.

  1. piano - lower tones more to the left and higher tones more to the right
  2. random - the channels will sound chaotically in the panorama
  3. according to how I want - for example, channel 1 and 2 to sound on the left and remain on the right

I want absolute control over the channels in polyphony/in the chord. I don’t mean to work with the audio signal as you just recommended.

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I tried this module, it doesn’t offer any freedom… it just distributes a predetermined order of channels into space. I want to determine the order of channels, or randomize it… but inside the polyphony, not the audio signal

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Sorry but I don’t understand what you want, but here is another plugin

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This is what my example does.

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What do you mean by that?

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Yes, your example does a panorama, but in your case, if I play a high note with a long release, the audio panorama moves the long release of this high note to the left in the panorama if I immediately press a low note. So the high note does not end in its place on the right.

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Make it polyphonic so the note has time to ring out.

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The ASSIGN module only makes a ping-pong effect …

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There is also a BUS MIX module, but it only works with audio signals, as you suggested…

The Assign module works inside the polyphonic system, and arranges the channels in a pingpong effect.

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How is this :

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For jojo - 16072025.vcv (2.9 KB)

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I can do this with the BUS MIX module, but I don’t want to control the panorama after the VCO, but before.

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So you don’t want to pan the sound, but the cv ?

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yeaahhhh … channels in polyphonic … like Assign modul, but in my way, not only pingpong

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Maybe somebody else will understand what you want to do and help you out. :grinning:

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I want to achieve that the notes end with their release at the place where they first appear in the stereo panorama. Assign allows this, but it is not possible to influence the order of the channels. Maybe it is not possible in VCV at all, I don’t know, I’m just asking :slight_smile:

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OK last attempt in this case you can pan every channel to its own place in the stereo field with polycon.

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For jojo - part 2.vcv (3.2 KB)

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ahaaaaa … it works! … thanks for the solution, and also for making me understand something! … I thought that a different arrangement of channels could be done in one polyphonic cable … so based on this, a module could be made that would also have the ability to randomly arrange the channels so that they always sound in a different place.

Thanx again!!!

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