So, I was looking at the Audio Damage Panstation 2, and thought to myself that most DAWS have some way of modulating pan control, out of the box. Is there something I'm missing with why it exists, other than being a more convenient way of adding creative pan automation to a project?

 

The other day I saw a metronome VST. So yes, it may be redundant for you. I used cubase artist which is stripped back compared to the pro version. In a situation like that, this is going to be better than what they provide to get your started.

 

Well, to replicate what Panstation 2 does is a lot of work (depending on DAW of course), and the good thing about using dedicated plugins is of course that the settings are transferable between different DAWs.