Modal Electronics Argon8M

Modal Electronics Argon8M Product Details

Description

The Modal Electronics Argon 8M has a robust steel and aluminum housing and is 19" rack-mountable. The device has numerous functions, including 120 carefully designed wavetables, 28 static wavetable processors, 32 high-resolution wavetable oscillators and much more.

The 4-axis joystick can be assigned to a variety of modulation destinations and can be locked if desired. You can read your wavetables on the 1.54 inch OLED display.

A special feature is the programmable arpeggiator with 32 steps and pauses, as well as the real-time sequencer with 512 steps/quantization and 4 recordable/editable animations.

Features:

• Polyphony: 8 voices
• Robust steel and aluminum housing
• 3 U, 19 inch rack-mountable
• 120 carefully designed wavetables, divided into 24 banks with 5 morphable waveform sets each
• 28 static wavetable processors
• 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
• High quality Bournes encoders
• 4-axis joystick, can be assigned to a variety of modulation destinations and locked if desired
• 3 envelope generators for AMP, MOD and FILTER, can be accessed independently or 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 mode
• Powerful mod matrix with 8 assignable slots and 4 fixed links, 11 sources and 52 destinations
• 2 audio rate LFOs with tempo synchronization (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can be synchronized via frequency divider
• 500 fully editable patch memories
• 300 factory presets
• 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, as well as 4 recordable/editable animations
• Numerous keyboard modes such as Mono, Poly, Unison 2, Unison 4, Unison 8, Stack 2, Unison 4
• All time-based parameters such as FX, LFO and sequencer arpeggios can be synchronized internally and externally
• Analog Sync In/Out (KORG / Teenage Engineering specification)
• Full DIN MIDI sockets
• 6.3 mm sockets
• 3.5 mm stereo input
• Free ModalApp for Mac, PC, iOS, Android, as well as VST3 and AU