Yeah, you can use it as a whammy in “octave bend mode.” It won’t do 2 octave bends if you find those really important to you. I have a HOG and I really love the octave bend mode. You can use it with the voices, or you can just use it with the original octave- which gets the typical whammy type thing going. There’s also a dry slider, so you can do a wet/dry mix without needing an external blend knob, which is very useful. You can use it as a volume pedal in volume mode.

Also, another nice thing is that it runs on DC power instead of AC power. It draws a lot of current, so it shouldn’t be daisy chained with other pedals, but it should work well with power supplies with high current isolated 9v outputs, where with the whammy you need to still use a wall wart.