Description

Desktop Wavetable Synthesizer

The Argon8M is based on the revolutionary new wavetable synthesizer engine of the highly acclaimed Modal 002. 8-voice true polyphony in a professional package with unprecedented features. The Argon8M’s new sound engine enables extremely complex synthesis previously unavailable in this price range (and above).The development of the Argon8 is a testament to the dedication and culmination of nearly six years of hard work by the young development team from Bristol – England.

• True 8-voice polyphony
• Rugged steel and aluminum case
• 120 carefully designed wavetables, divided into 24 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets each
• 28 static wavetable processors, including de-rez, wave folder, wave shaper, phase shaper and rectify
• 32 high-resolution wavetable oscillators, at least 4 per voice
• 8 oscillator modifiers, including: Phase Mod (FM), Ring Mod, Amp Mod, Hard Sync and Windowed Sync.
• 1.54 inch OLED display for direct visual feedback
• High-quality Bournes encoders
• A 4-axis joystick that can be assigned to a variety of modulation destinations and virtually « locked » if desired
• Three envelope generators for AMP, MOD and FILTER that can be called up independently or all three simultaneously, including negative (inverted) values.
• Two-pole, morphable resonance filter
• Waveshaping distortion
• 3 independent and user-definable stereo FX engines, including: Delay, Reverb, Flanging, Phasing and Chorus.
• Glide/Portamento with legato and staccato modes
• Powerful mod matrix with eight assignable slots and four fixed links, 11 sources and 52 destinations
• Two audio rate LFOs with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can be synchronized by frequency divider
• 500 fully editable patch memories, 300 factory presets and 200 free user patches
• Patch upload and download via the free MODALapp
• Programmable arpeggiator with 32 steps and pauses
• Real-time sequencer with 512 steps and quantization, plus four recordable/editable animations
• Multiple keyboard modes, mono, poly, unison 2, unison 4, unison 8, stack 2 and unison 4.
• All time-based parameters like FX, LFO and sequencer arpeggios can be synchronized internally and externally
• Analog sync in/out (KORG / Teenage Engineering specification)
• Full DIN MIDI jacks
• 6.3 mm jacks for audio as well as sustain and expression
• 3.5mm stereo input with the ability to route audio through the internal effects
• Free ModalApp for Mac, PC, iOS, Android, as well as VST3 and AU
• Includes rack ears for installation in a 19″ rack