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Based around its revolutionary new wavetable synthesizer engine, Argon8 derives much of its heritage and DNA from the highly acclaimed Modal 002. Modal Electronics are proud to announce the latest in its line of innovative Machines For Musicians - the Modal Argon8 synthesizer.
Argon8 joins the growing Modal Electronics family of SKULPTsynthesizer, CRAFTsynth 2.0, Modal 002 Hybrid and Modal 008 Analogue Polyphonic synthesizers.
Modal Electronics Argon 8 37-Key 8-Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer Features
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
Inbuilt 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 quantize and four recordable/editable animations
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
Free dedicated app that works on Mac, PC, iOS, Android and works under VST3 and AU
The Modal 002, first introduced in June 2014 at $4,495 became the benchmark for wavetable synthesis, and is still used and loved by top artists and film and television producers across the globe.
Five years on from Modal 002’s introduction, Modal Electronics has created a completely new synthesizer that takes much of the sound design capability and functionality of the Modal 002 and places it in an incredibly compact and price conscious package – the Modal Argon8.
Bringing eight voices of true polyphony in a professional quality package with features previously never seen at this price point, pushing the bar up in sub $1,000 synthesizers.
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
Build quality 9 Sonic variation 9 Sequencer 8 Ease of use 9 This is an excellent wavetable synth. There is a lot inside this machine and you will be busy for a long time.
Published date
12/05/22
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Beautiful Modal. Just Beautiful.
Argon8 covers a lot of synth creative territory. I love that it is primarily a knob per function synth and finding it extremely easy to use/dial in. It sounds really warm to digital, all depending on what and how your using the waveforms. I was also impressed at how much bottom end I was getting thr...
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01/11/20
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unique wavetable synth
Really original sounds. Love it ! Powerful little synth !
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