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Bad Gear - COLDEST Synth of all TIME
Bad Gear - Cold as Ice??? ,
Chill!!! ,
Modal Argon ,
Argon8 ,
Argon8m ,
Argon8x ,
Wavetables ,
Wavetable Synth ,
Modal Cobalt ,
Music Production ,
Gear Review ,
Meme Video ,
Cold Sound ,
Techno

Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. In a musical landscape dominated by the oftentimes characterless clarity of modern digital technology synth fans are yearning for the organic warmth of analog instruments.

Today we are going to talk about the 2019 Modal Argon-8 wavetable synthesizer which - no pun intended - offers the exact polar opposite.


Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:44 Overview Modal Argon 8
01:37 Wavetable Oscillators
02:00 Special Oscillator Features (Modifiers, FM Synthesis )
02:33 Filter Section
02:55 Modulators
03:10 Workflow, Mod Matrix
03:20 FX Section
03:43 Menu Structure
03:53 Arpeggiator , Sequencer
04:12 Patches
04:47 What else??? ( Software Editor , MPE Midi, Pricing, Thanks)
05:09 Hate Screen
05:33 Jam 1 ( Arctic House )
06:25 Jam 2 ( Polar Electro )
07:17 Finale ( Below-zero Downtempo )
07:48 Verdict