X-Pan, Pams, and clipping question

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X-Pan, Pams, and clipping question

Hey all, I've got a kind of boring bass line going and figured it would be cool to play with the panning on it. I sent a sine wave from Pam's into X-Pan's pan input and got a standard sweep between channels. My next thought was to increase the speed of the sine wave for each hit a la typical dubstep ramping lfo. I made a ramp in Pams, sent it to CV 1, and set the panning sine's speed to CV1. Now it's clipping pretty hard unless I attenuate CV1 to the point of not being noticable.

If I set my panning Sine to 1x up to 3x it pans fine, as I get past that it starts to sound noisey but that's more audio rate of the panning rather than the hard clipping I was getting when using a ramp to set the speed. If I Offset CV1 pretty high and Attenuate it low it seems to do what I want much cleaner but I'm not sure why?

For what it's worth, this is my rack.

submitted by /u/plytheman
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