Thanks @spikysimon!
Yes, I’ve been playing the handpan for ten years now and combining it with electronics in many ways. There’s one jam video on Youtube where I play the handpan with Ableton and some synths.
Last two years I’ve been experimenting with an Octatrack-based setup. I’m thinking about focusing my next album around Octatrack and handpan.
Btw it’s quite hilarious how some people think handpans are somehow more limited instruments because they have often only 8-10 notes. (Not even mentioning there are crazy mutant handpan instruments these days that have up to 22 notes.) I mean, there are some very serious and talented people who focus their careers around tambourine/frame drum, but no one ever questions their instrumental depth or expressivity… It’s truly impressive what some people can do with a riq or tamburello!
I understand that it pisses some people off to see that handpans tend to draw people around them regardless of what you do with them… but isn’t that the same Elektron’s boxes do? Premade loops become magically more interesting when they are played on an Octatrack, just like silly digital farts sound better from a Monomachine. Who cares. Music is music! 
