Description

Wavetable Synthesizer

About five years after the introduction of the legendary Modal 002, Modal Electronics has developed a completely new synthesizer that combines much of the functionality of the Modal 002 into a modern and affordable powerhouse – the Modal Argon8.
The Argon8X new sound engine allows for extremely complex synthesis that was previously unheard of in this price range (and above).
The development of Argon8 is a testament to the dedication and culmination of almost six years of hard work by the young development team from Bristol – England.
True 8-voice polyphony

• Robust steel and aluminium 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.
• FATAR TP9/S 61-key keyboard with velocity and aftertouch.
• 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 accessed 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 synchronised 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
• Realtime sequencer with 512 steps and quantisation, 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 such as FX, LFO and sequencer arpeggios can be synchronised internally and externally
• Analogue Sync In/Out (KORG / Teenage Engineering specification)
• Full DIN MIDI jacks
• 6.3 mm jacks for audio as well as sustain and expression
• 3.5 mm stereo input with the possibility to route audio through the internal effects
• Free ModalApp for Mac, PC, iOS, Android, as well as VST3 and AU