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