The link does atm. The google suggested link works right now as well.
I’ll just bookmark it and skip google and see if that helps. I don’t need to go there often, like to see if they’re back at it, which I hope they are.
Ugh I can’t stand website spoofing or URL redirecting or whatever it is. I actually haven’t seen it in a while. I’m not in any way an expert in this bit of the world though.
When I look at the modal site data by clicking on the little lock emblem next to the URL, it shows 13 trackers blocked and a bunch of cookies rejected. Seems excessive.
I hear that a lot as a joke but people without cash can still be made more insolvent by scammers.
The field generally preys on the underclass, those with (even bad) credit and bank account a lot more than dim/drugged people with a trust fund.
I don’t think there is any money scam involved here . This is a mostly harmless problem with the Google and Bing sponsored links best as i have made out. Let’s move on unless there is something crucial or new with this. This is too nice a synth to bury with this sort of stuff.
Also started this thread specific to this.
I do like that Argon (which I have and love), Cobalt and Carbon keyboard-versions share basically the exact form-factor and layout. Ease of entry is really low if you have one of them already, and fairly straightforward anyway.
I don’t use the editor for anything other than patch management so as long as it has something like that, cool. These three are so similar, probably in internal-architecture too, that I highly doubt they’ll not have exactly the same editor as the others.
That similarity, unfortunately, is also a a downside for me.
I did an extensive A/B between Cobalt and Argon before getting the Argon and while they’re definitely different synths, the workflow was so similar that I had a hard time distinguishing
them, which sort of led my ear to not really distinguishing them also. There’s enough sonic overlap between those two that I think I’d be doing similar things with either one at the end of the day.
Which makes this one a MUST-demo-in-real-life kind of purchase to see if it’s enough different to warrant such investment.
The keybeds on these are the best I have (tied with Nord but different), and I love playing the Argon immensely.
I preordered one a few weeks ago.
It’s got a great fuzzy / fizzy quality to some of the patches. Hence the Carbon8tion
It does some sonic things my other boards don’t. Especially wave folding and phase distortion. I’ll try to remember to post some of features from the manual when I get home.
Quality build and sounds, happy to have one!
Apparently patch editor is still in development, which will be nice once I write some more of my own. Everything is fairly accessible from the front panel too
I’ve always had my eye on Modal and was sad to hear they had gone bust? Does this mean they’re still going strong? Would probably consider buying the Carbon8 if only to support a company that seem cool.
Cool demo, indeed!
Sounds great and a bonus to see tattoo free limbs on the internet for the first time in years. Bravo.
Might as well have Part One too, unless I have missed it…
I noticed this being used with a Carbon8 in this recent ( super super long ) sound design video. Maybe it’s still in beta, or it just came out.
Is this the case? Is the carbon 8 really just a cobalt + argon? Perhaps it’s been given additional filters or fx?
(Personally I don’t care anymore because of Digitone II 
Also selling my Argon8M because of it)
Hmmm…CoBalt / ARgON = CARBON.
I was quite keen to get your take.
[What I love the Argon8M for is to mangle waveforms, which then go into the filter (and overdrive) and then into the wavefolder, to have these steel-like (hefty like analog) sounds out of it one usually only gets with certain eurorack modules. The only desktop synth with wavefolder I know of capable of that.
Unfortunately the Interface (lights, screens, concept, …) isn’t really unpleasant for me. So I rather coax these sounds out of DNII, although maybe I keep it after all (got it very cheap used, the Argon8M) …
What would make the Carbon8 interesting would be if it has more FX slots, stereo wavefolder eating two slots was a bit limiting.]
I was hoping long term for a flagship mashup of all their engines and more powerful effects processors (say, allowing for three of the 2x slot effects) - but that’s probably not really in the cards.
A shame really because there were some really nice ideas from this last iteration of Modal and they sound undeniably good. A slightly more “grown up” UI with a nicer screen (and, ye gods, no more blue LEDs) would have made for a very nice synth.
