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Oscillators
Argon8 features 28 banks of unique morphable waveform sets located on either Wave 1 (first
24) or Wave 2 (first 24 plus an additional 4). It has a total of 32 oscillators inside.
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Wave1:
This encoder allows you to sweep continuously through the selected wavetable.
Holding Patch and turning this encoder will select the WavMod type for this wavetable
set.
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Wave2:
This encoder allows you to sweep continuously through the selected wavetable.
Holding Patch and turning this encoder will select the WavMod type for this wavetable
set where available (PWM and noise banks are not modulatable in this way)
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Tune1:
Turning this encoder allows us to control the coarse tuning of Wave1 (Tune) at
desirable int/- 4 octaves.
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Tune2:
Turning this encoder allows us to control the coarse tuning of Wave2 (Tune) at
desirable int/- 4 octaves.
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Fine1:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
allows us to control the fine tuning of Wave1 (Fine) +/- 100 cents
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Fine2:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
allows us to control the fine tuning of Wave 2 (Fine) +/- 100 cents
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Bank1:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
allows you to select which bank of waveforms you want on Wave 1.
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Bank2:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
allows you to select which bank of waveforms you want on Wave 2 (there are 4 extra
banks for PWM and noise on Wave 2).
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WavMod1:
Holding the Patch/Seq button and turning the Wave1 encoder selects which
of the 32 wavetable modifiers you want to apply to the wavetable on oscillator 1.
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WavMod2:
Holding the Patch/Seq button and turning the Wave2 encoder selects which
of the 32 wavetable modifiers you want to apply to the wavetable on oscillator 2 (cannot
be applied to the PWM or noise banks).
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Spread:
This introduces additional oscillators to achieve unison or stacked octaves and
intervals. In the first half of the dial, Wave 1 and Wave 2 are split into individual oscillators
and spread out over the frequency spectrum to create a fat unison sound. This effect is
increased up to the center position. Past half way, the oscillators arrange themselves into
intervals. A huge variation of chords can be created with this control in conjunction with
Wave1&2 detune.
Note: The average level of the sound will be lower when using the SPREAD control. This is
because the combining oscillators are phasing in and out and not constantly re-enforcing
each other as they would if the spread is set to zero.
Oscillators
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Glide:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
controls the speed with which the oscillators change their pitch, ‘sliding’ from one note
to the next one pressed. Positive values will achieve normal always active glide and
negative amounts will achieve fingered glide and will only glide if another note is already
held. Envelopes will be retriggered with every note when the glide control is centred.
Moving the control in either direction will enable legato mode, where envelopes are
triggered only for the first note in a note stack.
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Mix:
This encoder allows you to balance the volume between each wave. All the way to
the left you will hear only Wave 1, All the way to the right you will hear Wave 2. In the
centre you will hear a balanced blend of both waves.
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Audio In:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this
encoder allows you to select the volume of the Audio Input. This will default to 0 on
boot.
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OscMod:
Turning this encoder controls the oscillator modifier amount where either Wave
1 is the carrier and Wave 2 is the modulator or the modifier is applied directly to Wave 1.
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Mode:
Holding the Shift button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this encoder
selects which of the 8 oscillator modifiers you want to use.
