Modal Electronics stellt den Modal Argon8 Synthesizer vor. Argon8 ergänzt die wachsenden Familie der SKULPTsynthesizer, CRAFTsynth 2.0, Modal 002 Hybrid und Modal 008 Analogue Polyphonic Synthesizer.
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Basierend auf seiner neuen wavetable Synthesizer-Engine leitet Argon8 einen Großteil seines Erbes und seiner DNA aus dem Modal 002 ab. Modal 002, der erstmals im Juni 2014 mit einem Preis von 4.495 US-Dollar eingeführt wurde, wurde zu einem sehr häufig eingesetzten Wavetable-Synthesizer und wird immer noch von erfolgreichen Künstlern sowie Film- und Fernsehproduzenten verwendet.
Fünf Jahre nach der Einführung von Modal 002 hat Modal Electronics einen neuen Synthesizer entwickelt, der einen Großteil der Sound-Design-Fähigkeit und Funktionalität des Modal 002 in ein kompaktes Gehäuse integriert.
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Funktionsumfang:
- True 8 voice polyphony
- Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis
- 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
- 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 – that provides instant visual feedback to the user at all times of playing/editing
- 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 incredibly powerful independent and user configurable stereo FX engines that can create sophisticated Delays, lush Reverbs, Flanging, Phasing, and Rich Choruses
- Glide/Portamento with both legato and staccato modes
- Hugely powerful “Mod Matrix” with eight assignable slots with four additional fixed routes, 11 mod sources and 52 destinations
- 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
- Two Audio rate LFO’s with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can sync to frequency divisions
- Inbuilt sophisticated 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.
Quelle: Modal Electronics
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Modal Argon8 bietet eine USB-MIDI-Verbindung, die es Argon8 ermöglicht, in einem integrierten Setup zu spielen. Der kostenlose Software-Editor ModalApp ist für MacOSX, Windows, iOS und Android Tablets und Smartphones sowie als ein VST3- und AU-Plugin für DAW-Anwendungen verfügbar.
Preis
Modal Argon8 soll umgerechnet 649€ kosten.
Weitere Informationen gibt es auf der Webseite des Herstellers.
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Polyphoner Synthesiser von Modal Electronics
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