tmm
Senior Member
As the title suggests, are there any hardware synthesizers that you are aware of that allow you to adjust panning per oscillator?
Dave Smith Tetra
You can do this on a John Bowen Solaris... with each of four voices, each with their own filter and envelope too, and still have an VCA envelope and one more envelope to spare!
You would have to find a used one or wait a year to spend $4,000 as John is transitioning his manufacturing process.
My old OB8 had panpots on the side panel for each voice. Persnickety machine, but oh so fat!
The free OBxd VST emulates that setup https://obxd.wordpress.com/
I'd go for a modular setup. Especially if you enjoy external sound processing. Theres some really great stuff for that in euro rack. Check out make noise morphagene, mutable instruments clouds, ect. I reach for modular when I want more tonal depth, uniqueness, expression. It's a great compliment to the prophet 6.
On the modular side, I have a small Mutable Instruments rig. Their modules are very creative and do things that aren't in integrated synths. That was the point for me. I didn't want standard subtractive architecture. I consider that rig to be my "mad scientist lab". A place for experimentation and wild ideas. It is just two rack mounted 84 space boats, but can go really wild places!