New Modal Wavetable Polysynth

New Modal Wavetable Polysynth - ARGON8

US Sub $1000 coming before Christmas 06/09/19

MP4	18:43 mins

Today Modal Electronics announce their new ARGON8 Polysynth. With features taken from their flagship 002, SKULPT and Craft 2.0 synths, ARGON8 goes large (its bigger).

The ARGON8 is an 8 voice digital Polysynth with a three octave full size Fatar keybed (with aftertouch),120 high resolution wavetables (from 002 as well) 4 oscillators per voice, 28 wavetable processors including de-rez, phase shapers and rectify.

We had a look at the pre-production prototype - presets have not been created yet and the final look will be tweaked, with Jackson (we're fortunate in that Modal are just down the road). The ARGON8 will be on show at Knobcon this weekend if you are going - we'll have a reporter there so hope to get another look.

UPDATE: Final pricing is $699 £579 ~~TBC, but Modal tell us that it will be competitive certainly sub $1000~~ ~~- as soon as we know we'll tell you.~~ Modal are also confident that the ARGON8 will be shipping well before Christmas worldwide.

ARGON8 Features

True 8 voice polyphony
Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis
120 carefully crafted wavetables split into 24 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets
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
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 independent and user configurable stereo FX engines - Delays, lush Reverbs, Flanging, Phasing, and Rich Choruses
Glide/Portamento with both legato and staccato modes
Mod Matrix”with eight assignable slots with four additional fixed routes, 11 mod sources and 52 destinations
500 patch memories.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
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
Free dedicated app that works on Mac, PC, iOS, Android and works under VST3 and AU.