I mainly use it as an effect unit on an equalized bass synth controlled by a trautonium ribbon as to mimic a human voice input. The Pipe has quite a few controls to sculpt the sound characteristic. It does not need any post effect. I found kinda flanger, distortion, equalizer, delay, reverb, tremolo aka drum patterns, granular, etc. It took me months to discover all the features, mainly used the input for synth audio instead of human voice microphone audio. Highly versatile instrument.