Modal Electronics ARGON8M - Page 6

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UI Combinations
Quick Recalls
ARGON8M has 4 Quick Recall slots for quickly loading presets. Quick Recalls are controlled
using the following button combos:
• Hold ‘Patch’ + hold one of the four buttons on bottom left of the panel to assign the
currently loaded patch to a QR slot
• Hold ‘Patch’ + press one of the four buttons on bottom left of the panel to load the
patch in the QR slot
LFO
• Turn the ‘Rate’ encoders into the negative range to access synced rates
• Press the ‘LFO1/LFO2’ switch when LFO is already selected to latch LFO assign
Oscillators
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Wave1’ or ’Wave2’ encoder to control the WavMod
parameters
• Press the ‘Tune/Fine’ switch to toggle between Osc1 and Osc2 tune and fine tune controls
Filter
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Cutoff’ encoder to control the Filter Type parameter
Envelopes
• Hold any of the EG buttons for one second and then turn the ADSR encoders to adjust all
envelopes simultaneously
• Press the MEG button when MEG is already selected to latch MEG assign
Sequencer
• Hold the ‘Patch’ and ‘Play’ button to clear the sequencer notes
• When the screen is displaying the ‘Linked Sequence’ parameter, hold the ‘Edit’ switch to
set the value to be the currently loaded sequence.
UI Combinations
Arp
• Hold the ‘Arp’ button and press keys on the internal or an external keyboard to add
pattern notes or press the ‘Play’ button to add a rest to the pattern
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Division’ encoder to control Arp Gate
Voice
• Press ‘Mode’ repeatedly to cycle through the different voice modes Mono, Poly, Unison
(2,4 and 8) and Stack (2 and 4).
• Press ‘Chord’ whilst holding a chord on an external keyboard to set the chord mode
chord.
Modulation
• To assign a Mod Slot either hold (momentary) or latch the desired Mod source button -
then set a depth by turning desired modulation destination parameter encoder
• When latched in a Mod Source assign mode pressing the flashing Mod Source button
again will exit assign mode
• Mod source button + ‘Depth’ encoder - set global depth for that mod source
• Press ModSlot repeatedly to cycle through and view all mod slot settings on the screen
• When the screen is displaying a mod slot ‘Depth’ parameter (most easily accessed via
assigning modulation using the panel or via the ModSlot button), hold the ‘Edit’ switch to
clear the mod slot assignment.
• To assign a mod source to an osc’s global frequency destination, use either of the fine
tune controls. ‘Tune1’ will assign to Osc1 tune, ‘Tune2’ will assign to Osc2 tune.
FX
• Press FX1 / FX2 / FX3 button repeatedly to change the FX type of the slot
• Hold FX1 / FX2 / FX3 button to reset the FX type of the slot to ‘None’
• Turn the ‘B’ encoder into the negative range for the slot with a Delay FX assigned to
access synced delay times
• Press FX1 + FX2 + FX3 to jump to the ‘FX Preset Load’ parameter
Global Settings
• When the screen is displaying the ‘Reset’ option, hold the ‘Edit’ switch to trigger the
‘Reset’ function.