Modal Electronics ARGON8 Polyphonic Wavetable Synthesizer (37-Keys)
The Modal Electronics ARGON8 is a monotimbral 8-voice polyphonic wavetable synthesizer with a 37-note keyboard and a true 8-voice architecture that combines the best elements of the 002, Craft, and Skulpt series instruments into a powerful, yet affordable synth with professional features well suited for musicians, producers, sound designers, and more. The 120 carefully crafted wavetables are split into 24 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets, covering classic virtual analog waveforms through modern waveforms suitable for EDM. Many of the original Modal 002 waveforms are included as well as a whole range of mathematically generated tables. There are 32 static wavetable processors including de-rez, wave folders, wave shapers, phase shapers, and rectify that can be applied to any of the 120 wavetables for a remarkable array of permutations and new wave shapes. The two-pole morphing resonating filter offers low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass. The powerful Mod Matrix has eight assignable slots with four fixed routes, 11 mod sources, and 52 destinations. What’s more, there’s a fully assignable 4-axis joystick that can be assigned to a huge range of modulation destinations and virtually locked when desired. The ARGON8 rounds out its modulation with three dedicated envelope generators for Amp, Filter, and Mod that can be addressed independently or simultaneously including negative (reverse) versions, as well as two audio rate LFOs with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can sync to frequency divisions. The FATAR TP9/S is a full-sized 37-note keybed with both velocity and aftertouch. The integrated 1.54″ OLED display provides visual feedback of your playing and editing at all times. There are multiple keyboard modes including Mono, Poly, Unison 2, Unison, 4, Unison 8, Stack 2, and Stack 4, plus glide/portamento with both legato and staccato modes. The rear panel offers a pair of 1/4″ main outputs, a dedicated 1/4″ headphone output, and two 1/4″ controller inputs for expression and sustain. Additionally, there is a 3.5mm stereo input for effects processing of external signals, plus two 3.5mm analog sync I/Os for connecting to other hardware gear. The ARGON8 features several onboard effects including delays, reverbs, choruses, flangers, and phasers. A free software editor is available for download, and is compatible with macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, as well as VST3 and Audio Units. The ARGON8 includes a power cord.
Box Contains
ARGON8 v3 Firmware Release Notes:
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Vintage Parameter:
- Emulating the behaviour of vintage synths by introducing variation between the voices
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Osc Free Run:
- Emulating the behaviour of analogue oscillators by allowing them to run freely
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Four New Filter Types – Distortion control controls filter drive when these types are active:
- Ladder – 4 pole resonant ladder filter with pre-filter drive, morphing through: LP > BP > HP
- Ladder Hybrid – 1 pole resonant ladder filter with pre-filter drive, morphing through: LP + Notch > Notch > HP + Notch
- Ladder Phaser – Resonant ladder filter with pre-filter drive, morphing through: Notch > Phaser
- Sallen-Key – 2 pole resonant Sallen-Key Filter with pre-filter drive, morphing through: LP > BP
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Added 15 new FX, including a new reverb algorithm:
- Reverb V2
- Phaser V2
- Chorus V2
- Unisoniser
- Compressor
- Three Band EQ
- Mono Drive (Hard Clip)
- Mono Drive (Soft Clip)
- Mono Drive (Rectify)
- Mono Drive (Fold)
- Stereo Drive (Hard Clip)
- Stereo Drive (Soft Clip)
- Stereo Drive (Rectify)
- Stereo Drive (Fold)
- Utility
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Seven new arpeggiator directions:
- Chord
- Pendulum 2 – Repeats the last note when reversing direction
- N-Pendulum 2 – Pendulum 2 in note number order
- Reverse Pendulum – A reverse version of Pendulum
- N-Reverse Pendulum – A reverse version of N-Pendulum
- Reverse Pendulum 2 – A reverse version of Pendulum 2
- N-Reverse Pendulum 2 – A reverse version of N-Pendulum 2
New Factory Preset Bank
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Modal Electronics ARGON8 Polyphonic Wavetable Synthesizer (37-Keys)
- Power Supply
- Limited 1-Year Warranty
