The pitch
01 · As an oscillator stack
Drop Antigone into a case full of analog filters and Eurorack FX. Each of the six voices runs its own engine, with its own pitch, modulation and CV input — sent to its own audio output.
02 · As a complete poly synth
Plug a keyboard or sequencer in. Antigone is a complete instrument — 20+ algorithms in the Algorithm Synth alone, plus dedicated Resonator, DrumSynth, Granular, Sample player. Multimode filters slots, and much more...
03 · As a drum machine
Six instruments, six voices, one unified DrumSynth engine. Each model is a fully-fledged drum synthesizer (not a sample) — bass drums, snares, hi-hats, claps, plus FM/Noise/Glitch experimentation.
Highlights
Wavetable engine — NEW IN V2
The reworked wavetable engine accepts any custom wave (128 to 2048 samples per wave) and is compatible with the wavetable formats from flagship VSTs — Serum, Vital and others. Antigone ships with 50+ wavetables licensed from Galbanum's Architecture Waveforms collection. Once loaded, every wavetable can be morphed and reshaped in real time through 38 stackable transforms: 21 in the spectral domain, 14 in the phase domain, and 3 algorithmic — a wavefolder for every dimension of the wave.
FM engine — NEW IN V2
Each of the four FM operators can be set independently to one of 11 personality models — including six historically-faithful chip-style FM voices spanning the golden era of digital FM (1983–1988). Plus TZFM and phase-distortion flavours that no chip ever shipped.
Resonator — NEW IN V2
Three foundational models inherited from the Mutable Instruments Rings lineage — Modal, Sympathetic and String — joined by 16 new physical models built from scratch: Tibetan bowls, Chladni plates, Gamelan bonangs, Balafon with mirliton buzz, Gong with amplitude-dependent pitch glide, and more. Custom strikes, sample-based excitation.
Granular machine — NEW IN V2
A real-time granular Machine that turns any recorded sample loaded from the SD card into a cloud of grains. Independent control of grain size, density, position, pitch and pan, all per-voice modulatable. Layered with the same dual filter slots and Drive stage as the rest of the synthesis engines.
Sample player — NEW IN V2
Load WAV files from the SD card and trigger them across voices. Multi-slot mode gives each of 8 slots its own sample with its own start, length, loop and play mode. Slice mode shares a single sample across all 8 slots with independent slice points — perfect for breakbeats, vocal chops, and drum kits assembled from one long take.
Multimode filters
Two filter slots per voice, freely routable in series or parallel with crossfade and per-voice modulation. Each slot picks from nine modelled circuits — Oberheim SEM SVF, Moog transistor ladder, Korg MS-20 (Rev 1 K35 and Rev 2 OTA), TB-303 diode ladder, Steiner-Parker, Karplus comb / flanger, three-band formant vowel morph and a linear bell EQ — for a total of 28 LP / HP / BP / Notch variants.
Drive stage
A full distortion lab built into every voice. Tape hysteresis modelling, transistor saturation, Chebyshev wave-shaping, asymmetric clipping, bit reaper, sample-rate reduction — all 29 algorithms, with per-voice modulation.
NoteFX — NEW IN V2
Every instrument has its own NoteFX chain — Note, Chords, Arp, Rhythm Generator/Sequencer. Quantize to 18 scales with glide and drift, build chords from any of 32 types, run a polyphonic arpeggiator with custom rhythms, or trigger sequences from algorithmic rhythm engines: Euclidean, Fibonacci, Golomb, Aksak, Turing, Binary. Each instrument plays its own rules.
Shape sequencer
The Shape sequencer goes far beyond a step CV — every step is its own shape, drawn from a 34-curve LUT, with its own value range (min/max), repeat count, probability and fade. Up to 256 steps per pattern. Drop it into any of the 6 modulation slots and route it to anything — oscillator pitch, filter cutoff, drive amount, sample slot index... Combine probability, repeats and fades and the same pattern never plays the same way twice.
For the curious
Free firmware upgrade
Every Antigone shipped — past, present, future — runs the full V2 feature set. New engines, new resonator models, 21 spectral transforms, MSEG modulation, Rhythm Generator, OTA & Steiner-Parker filters, FM 2Op, VOSIM, Shimmer & VHS master FX, switchable Pre/Post FX sends, 6 voice-stealing strategies: all unlocked by a free firmware update. The 2.0.1 release is currently in **public beta** — every newly shipped module comes pre-flashed with V2, and you can downgrade back to V1 at any time with a single firmware re-flash.
What's new in V2 →Resources
Full module manual — quick start, voice architecture, every machine, every modulator, firmware updates.
Firmware releases, hardware batches and announcements specific to Antigone.
Official ModularGrid entry — drop the module into your virtual rack, share patches and read user reviews.
Fully optimised audio engine, redesigned FM (with new FM 2Op), new VOSIM vocal oscillator, unified Algorithm Synth, brand-new DrumSynth / Resonator / Granular / Chip / Simple Osc machines, multi-slot sample player, MSEG, per-instrument NoteFX with rhythm generators, OTA & Steiner-Parker filters, integrated FX bus with Shimmer and VHS. Heads up: V1 instrument and project presets are NOT compatible with V2 — back up before updating.
New wavetable transform modes, a fully pitchable second oscillator, smarter MIDI voice stealing and CPU optimisations across the board — free update for every Antigone.
Designed, developed & assembled in France
Antigone is designed and assembled in France. 2-year warranty, worldwide shipping, direct support.
