Modal Electronics’ ARGON series of wavetable synthesizers are a gold-mine of inspiration for producers and adventurous sound designers, packed full of morphable waveforms and modifiers to explore. Modal have also been incredibly active with its development providing free updates, each adding new features and functionality along the way.
Today, Modal have announced ARGON-series firmware version 2.6 which adds 12 new banks of wavetables providing 60 brand new waveforms, plus a new Tune Mode control for oscillator 2.
But don’t take our word for it. Here’s a snippet from Modal Electronics’ official press release:
Modal Electronics, a leading global synthesiser manufacturer, has just announced an all-new firmware update for their critically-acclaimed feature-packed ARGON-Series synthesisers. Never content with a static approach to product development – and directly responding to the needs of their global user community – Modal Electronics’ ARGON-Series firmware v2.6 adds a raft of new forward-thinking features that guarantee to supercharge user’s creative output like never before.
New in Firmware v2.6
Firmware v2.6 adds 12 new Wavetable Banks containing 60 all-new Waveforms. Now, producers, performers and sound designers can experience immediate access to two independent wave-groups each containing 180 carefully crafted wavetables split into 36 banks of 5 morphable waveform sets; there’s even an additional PWM bank and 3 noise/modulation banks accessible on wave-group 2.
In addition, users can now effortlessly link OSC2 tuning to OSC1 frequency via a handy OSC2 Tune Mode control. Fuse all of this with 32 static wavetable modifiers including, de-rez, wave folders, waveshapers, phase shapers and rectify, all of which can be applied to the 180 wavetables – not to mention 8 types of oscillator modifier – and the sonic possibilities are virtually limitless.
Firmware version 2.6 is available now as a free update for the ARGON8, ARGON8X ARGON8M via the free MODALapp https://www.modalelectronics.com/modalapp/
