For that you can look at Arturia's other offerings.Īfter installation and authorisation Pigments will prompt you to set up your audio and MIDI settings and then you're ready to go. It can do virtual analogue too, but it does not focus on faithful recreation of analogue timbres. Fundamentally, Pigments is a wavetable synth. Not something you'll master in one evening, but something that could become a go-to instrument for a wide variety of sounds. It is what I like to call a 'big synth' (OK, not the most inspired name): a behemoth that bestows many tools on the sound designer. Pigments is a plug-in and stand-alone instrument available on Windows and Mac OS X in all the usual formats. Storm has long since been retired, but now Arturia are returning to their roots with a software synthesizer entirely of their own design. Since then they've successfully moved into the hardware market with synths, drum machines, MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.
Their first product was a complete software music studio called Storm, but it wasn't until they began to focus on software recreations of classic hardware synths such as the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter 8, ARP 2600 and Moog Minimoog that the company really took off. Here we can see LFO 2, in yellow, is modulating Wavefolding Amount and Filter 2 Frequency Shift.Īrturia built their reputation on software recreations of classic synths, now they're back with one of their own.Īrturia have been in the virtual instrument business for 20 years.
The usual modulation sources and some more unconventional ones like the Turing and Binary random generators.Extensive waveshaping options for the wavetable oscillator, with great aliasing control.Continuous unison controls that can be modulated, with classic and chord modes.AScale quantized pitch modulations to build complex melodic sequences.Pigments offers exceptional sound thanks to its hugely powerful architecture and lightning-fast workflow that makes complex modulations easy, fast, and most importantly, fun. Today, French music company Arturia has unveiled their latest virtual synth, Pigment. After spending 20 years analyzing and emulating the best synthesizers ever made, they have taken their expertise and created their own.
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