Stunning wavetable business from rising British synth brand Modal. Eight-voice synth engine with incredible sound. Great value. Check out our full review.

Supplier's notes:
Based around its revolutionary new wavetable synthesiser engine, Argon8 derives much of its heritage and DNA from the highly acclaimed Modal 002.

Bringing eight voices of true polyphony in a professional quality package with features previously never seen at this price point.

Modal Argon8 provides a Class Compliant USB MIDI connection, enabling Argon8 to play in an integrated setup, and the free software editor ModalApp is available on MacOSX, Windows, iOS and Android tablets and phones as well as a VST3 and AU plugin for DAW applications.

Oscillators
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 3 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

Keyboard
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

Multiple keyboard modes, Mono, Poly, Unison 2, unison 4, unison 8, Stack 2 and Stack 4

Inbuilt sophisticated programmable arpeggiator of 32 steps with rest capability with up to 2048 steps before repeating

Glide / Portamento with both legato and staccato modes

Filter
Two pole morphing resonant filter with multiple filter types

Filter can be morphed from low pass, through band pass, to high pass

Modulation
Hugely powerful "Mod Matrix" with eight assignable slots with four additional fixed routes, 11 mod sources and 52 destinations

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 Audio rate LFO's with tempo sync (one poly, one global). Polyphonic LFO can sync to frequency divisions

FX
Waveshaping distortion

Three incredibly powerful independent and user configurable stereo FX engines that can create sophisticated Delays, lush Reverbs, Flanging, Phasing, and Rich Choruses

Sequencer
Real time sequencer with 512 notes with input quantise and four recordable / editable parameter animations

Delay FX, LFO's, sequencer and arpeggiator can be either clocked internally or externally

Storage
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

100 sequencer presets and 100 FX presets

Connectivity
Analogue clock sync in and out (configured to the KORG / Teenage Engineering specification)

MIDI DIN in and out

Full size quarter inch jacks for stereo audio outs, headphones and external control such as sustain and expression

3.5 mm stereo input with ability to route incoming audio through the FX

Class compliant MIDI provided over USB connection to host computer or tablet

Optional software editor available for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android with VST3 and AU compatibility - MODALapp can be run within your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Power: DC-9.0V-1.5A

Physical
Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis

Modal Electronics ARGON8 8 Voice 37 Key Polyphonic Wavetable Keyboard Synthesiser review at Juno Daily

• Road ready Steel and Aluminium chassis
• 120 carefully-crafted morphable wavetables with 28 static wavetable processors for further tweaking
• True 8-voice polyphony with 32 wavetable oscillators; 4 per voice, with 8 types of oscillator modifiers
• Fatar TP9/S Full size 37 key keybed with velocity and aftertouch
• 1.54" OLED display for real-time visual accompaniment
• An assignable 4-axis joystick for ultimate hands-on modulation
• Three dedicated envelope generators for Amp, Mod and Filter, plus 2- pole morphing resonant filter
• Three powerful independent/user-configurable stereo FX engines with delays, lush Reverbs and heaps of modulation
• 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
• 512-step sequencer with input quantise

If you decide an equipment item is not suitable within 10 days of delivery, you can return it to us for a replacement or refund. Returns must be unused and in their original, undamaged packaging.

Some items are excluded from our money back guarantee, including:
• Computer software that has been unsealed or registered
• Any item that comes directly into contact with the nose, ears or mouth

To arrange a return, just contact our customer service department on 020 7424 2800 or email us at support@juno.co.uk