This has become my favorite (and new member) of my synth collection. This and Deepmind 12... they are my company on those restless nights. Great video. Thanks for posting 🙂
Thanks very much Meuchine! Good job! Argon is an excellent synth! If you allow me a single reccomendation from another begginer: in pads, just play a single chord with the left hand on the bass note and the right hand on three or four notes of the chord and let the sound be expressed for half a minute or so to be able to feel all the nuances of the preset. Enjoy the synth!
Thanks for sharing. I have wanted to get an overview of the patches and you have also used the joystick more extensively than anyone else (and made it sound good). I am planning to get another Argon8 soon (the previous one vaporized in a wildfire that took down my house). Meanwhile I am indirectly learning about it through videos like yours.
Hi ! Thank you for your comment, that's really encouraging ! I sorry about your house (i lost mine the same way when i was a kid, and i kknow how hard it can be...) Yes, the joystick is a real good point on the Argon 8, and all the possibilities of modulations are fantastic for creantion in that synth. I spent 3 hours making new patches this afternoon, great game ! Maybe i will do a video about those personal patches some day.
@@meuchine7166 Please do put them up on youtube when you make them. My plan with the Argon8 is to link it with a Zoom 70CDR (which can chain 3 to 6 digital effects together, and emulate some delay/reverb units like the Big Sky for about 1/3 the cost). I am hoping to create a minimalist studio to replace the one that I lost.
Is it me or does it seem like Modal took the same DCO and algos from the 002 model and split them into the Cobalt and the Argon knowing they couldn't hit the price point they wanted with analog filters? Pretty cool characteristics, more aggressive than the Cobalt to my ears.
Hi. I did'nt notice any bug, as i know. The encoders are not the best quality i know, but they do the job. It's a quite unexpensive unit, for the possibilities, so... and the keyboard is very good !
Thanks for putting this demo together. I just ordered the x version and it’s nice to hear what I’ll be getting. You’ve got some great content and I’ve subscribed to hear more! Thanks!!
By playing nearly always too softly you don´t get the full velocity and in many sounds the bite or the richness of the sound only comes with higher velocity rates. First I thought OMG, this synth sounds only esoterically, then I realzed the reason for it.
@@meuchine7166 Yeah, I like it too, but I like some aggressive sounds as well. Anyway - no reason for a defence. You made a lot of work on this, so thank you.
The only thing that doesn't convince me is the pitch+modulation stick, because I imagine it's too easy to affect pitch when you just want to modulate, and vice versa. The way you operate the stick with such great care seems to confirm this. IMO the traditional separate wheels remain the simplest and yet most effective design.
@@meuchine7166 OH I see, but how does it work? Does that mean if you lock modulation you can only use pitch? Sounds like there would be an extra step (e.g. a button press) between intent and action. Edit: Just checked the manual, p. 38, indeed it requires button pressing, so IMO it's not ideal. I see how the joystick can be useful for certain things, especially if you deliberately want to combine two or more parameters into a two-dimensional controller, but I think it's no replacement for bread-and-butter pitch and modulation wheels. It would have been, instead, a good complement. A bit of a pity, if you ask me.
