Arturia Pigments v2.0.1.837 Mac-iND

MAC | 31 March 2020 | 409 MB

Pigments gives you the finest elements ever found in a software instrument, letting you create pioneering, exciting, and deeply personal sounds. Laying everything out before you, Pigments lets you fully express your creativity in a way that’s never been seen before in a software instrument.

Arturia promises that while Pigments can sound like other synths, no other synth can sound like Pigments. It is truly a 21st century instrument that will become the go-to choice for all producers, sound designers, and synth-fans alike thanks to its extraordinary features and tempting price. Pigments has some colorful tricks up its sleeve. In fact, it can do things other Synthesizers simply cannot do.

These include:

Scale quantized pitch modulations to build complex melodic sequences

Continuous unison controls that can be modulated, with classic and chord modes

Extensive waveshaping options for the wavetable oscillator, with great aliasing control

The usual modulation sources and some more unconventional ones like the Turing and Binary random generators

Powerful gate/retrig handling for modulators. Perfect to inspire unusual rhythmic sequences or self-generating patches

Polyrhythmic sequencer with a strong emphasis on randomness, with scale control to remain musical

Features:

Two engines in parallel: the best of both worlds

Virtual Analog triple oscillator engine

Complex Wavetable engine with morphing and import

Twin filters: dozens to choose from

Classic filters from V Collection instruments

Modern filters like surgeon and comb

Continuous series/parallel routing

Powerful effects section: an all-in-one solution

13 stunning effects, including wavefolder, overdrive, parametric EQ, and delay

Insert or Send routing options with drag and drop for easy switching

All the essential parameters can be modulated

Advanced modulation system: modulate anything with anything

Graphical editing, source-based or destination-based

Envelopes, LFOs, Function generators, Random sources

4 assignable Macros to control multiple parameters at once

Visual interface: understand your sound

Graphical representation of the most important modules

Living, moving waveform to see your sound come alive

Polyrhythmic Sequencer and Arpeggiator: get creative

Create complex, custom and evolving sequences or arps

Extensive factory preset library: learn from the masters

Hundreds of presets from awesome artists and experienced sound designers, including Jeremy Savage, Starcadian, Cubic Spline, Mord Fustang, and Jörg Hüttner Highlighted “notes” to show which parameters are recommended to tweak.

V 2.0.1

New Features

Pigments 2.0 presets are now NKS compatible

No more time limit on user samples

Add non-voice-stealing poly mode

Sample engine crossfade has been improved

MPE support has been improved

Micro tuning support has been improved

Minor GUI improvements

Bugs

Sample loop points are now correctly saved

No more crashes with Ableton Live during preset scan

Parameter smoothing has been improved

Samples too quiet are no longer normalized

Poly aftertouch is working again

Minor bugixes for the function in loop mode

Free run sources are now reset by the sequencer on each start

V 2.0.0

New Features

Engines

Added a new sample engine

Added a granular section within the sample engine

Unison available within all the engines

Unison voice count is now a continuous parameter

Added a FM toggle switch for oscs #1 and #2 of the Virtual Analog engine

Filters

Added a new west coast low pass gate

Added the ability to copy one filter to the other

Effects

Added a new tape echo delay

Improved Compressor ballistics

Added a fine delay control to the Delay

Added the ability to toggle buses on/off

Drag & drop and swap improvements

Modulators

Added the ability to bypass / remove / reassign modulations

Functions can now be used as loopable multi-segments envelopes

Each random modulation source can now be Sample & Hold, Binary or Turing

Sequencer

Plugin can output MIDI data

Reworked random, it is now a deviation around "regular" values

Reworked scale quantization, including user scales

New transpose knob (modulable) before scale quantization

Other

Added MPE support

Added a Vu-meter in the toolbar

GUI has been revamped

Added undo/redo, with keyboard shortcuts available in standalone

Bugfixes

Various minor bugfixes