{"id":46306,"date":"2019-09-14T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatsynthesizers.com\/?p=46306"},"modified":"2020-01-30T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:30:26","slug":"modal-electronics-argon8-8-stimmiger-wavetable-synth-aus-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsynthesizers.com\/en\/general\/modal-electronics-argon8-8-stimmiger-wavetable-synth-aus-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Modal Electronics Argon8 – new Wavetable-Synthesizer with 8 Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modal Electronics introduces the Argon8, an amazingly impressive (and really affordable) 8-voice wavetable synthesizer. Aside from the 3 octave keyboard, the instrument offers everything you’d expect from a full-blown polyphonic synthesizer: lots of oscillators, lots of modulation routings, arpeggiator, quantized sequencer and much more …<\/p>\n

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Argon8\u2019s completely new sound engine enables extremely complex synthesis creation that we believe is hitherto unprecedented at this price point and even for products that are much, much higher.<\/p>\n

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Polyphony<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– True 8 voice polyphonic
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Oscillators<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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– 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<\/p>\n

– 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<\/p>\n

– 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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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– FATAR TP9\/S Full size 37 key keybed with both velocity and aftertouch<\/p>\n

– 1.54 inch large OLED display \u2013 that provides instant visual feedback to the user at all times of playing\/editing<\/p>\n

– Multiple keyboard modes, Mono, Poly, Unison 2, unison 4, unison 8, Stack 2 and Stack 4<\/p>\n

– Inbuilt sophisticated programmable arpeggiator of 32 steps with rest capability with up to 2048 steps before repeating<\/p>\n

– Glide\/Portamento with both legato and staccato modes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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– Two pole morphing resonant filter
\n– Filter can be morphed from low pass, through band pass, to high pass<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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– Hugely powerful \u201cMod Matrix\u201d with eight assignable slots with four additional fixed routes, 11 mod sources and 52 destinations<\/p>\n

– A 4-axis joystick that can be assigned to a huge range of modulation destinations and virtually \u2018locked\u2019 when desired<\/p>\n

– Three dedicated envelope generators for AMP, MOD and FILTER that can be accessed independently or all three simultaneously including negative (reverse) versions<\/p>\n

– Two Audio rate LFO\u2019s with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can sync to frequency divisions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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– Waveshaping distortion’
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– Real time sequencer with 512 steps with input quantise and four recordable \/ editable parameter animations
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– 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
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– Analogue clock sync in and out (configured to the KORG \/ Teenage Engineering specification)
\n– MIDI IN and OUT
\n– Full size quarter inch jacks for stereo audio outs, headphones and external control such as sustain and expression
\n– 3.5 mm stereo input with ability to route incoming audio through the FX
\n– Class compliant MIDI provided over USB connection to host computer or tablet
\n– Optional software editor available for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android with VST3 and AU compatibility \u2013 MODALapp can be run within your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis<\/p>\n

Width: 560mm \u2013 22 inches
\nDepth: 300mm \u2013 11-3\/4 inches
\nHeight: 120mm \u2013 5 inches<\/p>\n

Power: DC-9.0V-1.5A<\/p>\n

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649 Euros \/ 579 GBP \/ 699 USD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n