Hi,
Hoping that someone using the argon or carbon can answer a few quick questions for me:
1) Does the Modal vst act as a soft synth within the daw to make sound without the hw connected (like the minifreak vst)?
2) if using the modal vst, can modulation be written in automation lanes within the daw?
3) from a hybrid workflow perspective (both daw-based and live) how does the argon8 compare with synths like the modwave, multi/poly, or minifreak?
Thanks in advance,
David
Modal argon8/carbon8 daw integration?
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- KVRer
- 10 posts since 2 Jul, 2023
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- KVRian
- 1116 posts since 6 Jul, 2009
Hey there, I'm using an Argon8. To your questions...
1) No, only the hardware makes sound. The Modal VST only serves as a way to communicate to the hardware from inside the DAW.
2) Yes.
3) I have not tried any of those other synths, so I can't say. What I can say is that the Argon8 workflow is very nice overall, and I find generally painless.
To set it up, you have a MIDI Track and an Audio Track. The VST is assigned to the MIDI, and obviously the Audio to whichever inputs you've designated from your audio interface. Take note, you can only have one instance of the ModalVST communicating with the hardware at a time. So, what you can do is assign the VST to a MIDI track, write your automation, then record the audio. Then, you can create a new MIDI track with a new instance of the ModalVST (after disabling the other) so you can write different automation in a separate track while preserving the information you made for the other track (which of course you can disable until if/when needed again).
1) No, only the hardware makes sound. The Modal VST only serves as a way to communicate to the hardware from inside the DAW.
2) Yes.
3) I have not tried any of those other synths, so I can't say. What I can say is that the Argon8 workflow is very nice overall, and I find generally painless.
To set it up, you have a MIDI Track and an Audio Track. The VST is assigned to the MIDI, and obviously the Audio to whichever inputs you've designated from your audio interface. Take note, you can only have one instance of the ModalVST communicating with the hardware at a time. So, what you can do is assign the VST to a MIDI track, write your automation, then record the audio. Then, you can create a new MIDI track with a new instance of the ModalVST (after disabling the other) so you can write different automation in a separate track while preserving the information you made for the other track (which of course you can disable until if/when needed again).
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 10 posts since 2 Jul, 2023
Thank you. Does each instrument track vst also retain the preset or settings used within the synth (even if the parameter isn’t being automated)?
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- KVRian
- 1116 posts since 6 Jul, 2009
Yes, it retains both the presets and settings. The hardware itself does have to take a second to switch back over to the other preset, but it remembers what it was for a given track (at least it is doing this in Cubase, I haven't tested it in others).