Modal Carbon8

It’s compact, and although it has a whole host of encoders, the control panel doesn’t look all that complex. But under the bonnet of this Modal Electronics Carbon8, the story is quite different. This is a highly sophisticated wavetable synthesiser capable of producing a vast array of sounds. This isn’t just your standard synth with sawtooth, square and sine waves; the range of sounds you can create with it goes far beyond that. For instance, there are 56 waveforms (including 18 algorithms and 38 wavetables), and when you consider that back in the 70s and 80s we only had about three waveforms, you’ll realise that 56 is a huge number. And of course, you can apply all sorts of envelopes, LFOs, filters and effects to this wealth of timbres. Modal Electronics Carbon8: a palette full of timbres We’ve already mentioned the filters. Back in the day, we had one, very occasionally two or three (for example, low-pass, high-pass and band-pass), but that was about it. This Carbon8 features 34 types