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Preset Saving

Press the ’Save’ button to enter the ‘full’ save procedure or hold the 
‘Save’ button to perform a ‘quick’ save (saving preset into current 
slot with current name).

Once you are in the ‘full’ save procedure, presets are saved in the 
following way:

Slot selection - Use the ‘Edit’ encoder to select the preset bank/
number to save into, and press the ‘Edit’ switch to select it

Naming - Use the ‘Page/Param’ encoder to select the character 
position and use the ‘Edit’ encoder to select the character. Press the 
‘Edit’ switch to finish editing the name. 

There are a number of panel shortcuts here:

Press ‘Velo‘ to jump to lowercase characters

Press ‘AftT’ to jump to uppercase characters

Press ‘Note’ to jump to numbers

Press ‘Expr’ to jump to symbols

Press the ‘Page/Param’ switch to add a space (increment all above 
characters)

Press ‘Init’ to delete the current character (decrement all above 
characters)

Hold ‘Init’ to delete the entire name

Press the ‘Edit’ switch to confirm the settings and save the preset.

At any point during the procedure hold the ‘Page/Param’ switch to 
move back a step.

To exit/quit the procedure without saving the preset, press the 
‘Patch/Seq’ button.

Global Settings

When the screen is displaying the ‘Reset’ option, hold the ‘Edit’ 
switch to trigger the ‘Reset’ function.

Quick Recalls

Argon8M has 4 Quick Recall slots for quickly loading patches. 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

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 switches for one second and then turn the ADSR 
encoders to adjust all envelopes simultaneously

Press the ‘MEG’ switch 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.

Arp

Hold the ‘Arp’ switch and press keys on 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

Keyboard/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

When latched in a Mod Source assign mode pressing the flashing 
Mod Source button again will exit assign mode

Mod source ‘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 switch repeatedly to change the FX type of the 
slot

Hold FX1 / FX2 / FX3 switch 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

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

UI

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