Modal Electronics Argon8X

Modal Electronics Argon8X Product Details

Description

The Modal Electronics Argon 8X has 61 keys, an 8-voice polyphony and has a robust steel and aluminium housing. The synthesizer has numerous features, 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 targets and locked if desired. You can read your wavetables on the 1.54 inch OLED display.

All time-based parameters like FX, LFO and sequencer arpeggios can be synchronized internally and externally. 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 aluminium housing
• 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.
• FATAR TP9/S 61 key keyboard with velocity and aftertouch.
• 1.54 inch OLED display
• High quality Bournes encoders
• 4-axis joystick, can be assigned to a variety of modulation targets and locked if desired
• 3 envelope generators for AMP, MOD and FILTER, can be accessed independently or simultaneously, including negative (inverted) values
• Bipolar morphable resonant filter
• waveshaping distortion
• 3 independent and user-definable stereo FX engines among others with: 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 and 200 free user patches
• Patch up and download via the free MODALapp
• Programmable arpeggiator with 32 steps and pauses
• Real-time sequencer with 512 steps and quantization, plus 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 like FX, LFO and sequencer arpeggios can be synchronized internally and externally
• Analog Sync In/Out (KORG / Teenage Engineering Specification)
• Full-fledged DIN MIDI sockets
• 6.3 mm jacks for audio and sustain and expression
• 3.5 mm stereo input with the possibility of routing audio via the internal effects
• Free ModalApp for Mac, PC, iOS, Android, VST3 and AU