Modal Electronics Argon8

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Cutting edge synthesizer with 120 custom-crafted wavetables. The Modal Argon8 8-Voice Polyphonic Wavetable Synthesizer bases its designed around the revolutionary new wavetable engine, inspired by the success of the Modal 002.

The Modal Argon8 takes sound design to the next level, providing you with 24 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets. The wavetables span generations and genre, from classic analog waveforms to cutting-edge EDM styles. The new sound engine opens up a new world of synthesis creation, providing a wide-range of onboard controls to get hand-on with your tones.

The premium-grade Fatar keybed features velocity-sensitivity and aftertouch for fluid playability. It also features 32 high-resolution wavetable oscillators with 4 per voice and a choice of 8 different oscillator modifiers and modulation. The built-in 4-axis joystick can be assigned to a range of modulation destinations and can also be locked into place when desired. It comes jam-packed with controls and features to streamline your sound creation process. It also has a wide range of analog and digital connectivity and comes complete with a free dedicated app for Mac, PC, iOS and Android.

  • True 8 voice polyphony
  • Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis
  • 120 carefully crafted wavetables split into 24 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets, covering virtual analogue classics through to cutting edge EDM and many from the original Modal 002 as well as a whole range of mathematically generated tables. Additional PWM bank and 4 noise/modulation banks accessible on Oscillator 2
  • 28 static wavetable processors including de-rez, wave folders, wave shapers, phase shapers and rectify that can be applied to the 120 wavetables to give a mind boggling array of permutations and new waveshapes
  • 32 high resolution wavetable oscillators, 4 per voice, with 8 types of oscillator modifier including: Phase Mod (FM), Ring Mod, Amp Mod, Hard Sync and Windowed Sync
  • FATAR TP9/S Full size 37 key keybed with both velocity and aftertouch
  • 1.54 inch large OLED display – that provides instant visual feedback to the user at all times of playing/editing
  • Bourns continuous rotary encoders throughout as standard
  • A 4-axis joystick that can be assigned to a huge range of modulation destinations and virtually ‘locked’ when desired
  • Three dedicated envelope generators for AMP, MOD and FILTER that can be accessed independently or all three simultaneously including negative (reverse) versions
  • Two pole morphing resonant filter
  • Waveshaping distortion
  • Three incredibly powerful independent and user configurable stereo FX engines that can create sophisticated Delays, lush Reverbs, Flanging, Phasing, and Rich Choruses
  • Glide/Portamento with both legato and staccato modes
  • Hugely powerful “Mod Matrix” with eight assignable slots with four additional fixed routes, 11 mod sources and 52 destinations
  • 500 patch memories, all fully editable and ships with 300 factory programs and 200 user patch spaces. Patch upload and download through the free MODALapp
  • Two Audio rate LFO’s with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can sync to frequency divisions
  • Sophisticated programmable arpeggiator of 32 steps with rest capability with up to 2048 steps before repeating
  • Real time sequencer with number 512 steps with input quantise and four recordable /editable animations
  • Multiple keyboard modes, Mono, Poly, Unison 2, unison 4, unison 8, Stack 2 and Stack 4
  • All time-based FX, LFO’s and sequencer arpeggio can be either clocked internally or externally
  • Sync in/out
  • Full size MIDI five pin din sockets
  • Full size quarter inch jacks for both audio and external control such as sustain and expression
  • 3.5 mm stereo input with ability to route incoming audio through the FX
  • Fee dedicated app that works on Mac, PC, iOS, Android and works under VST3 and AU