Arturia's 21st-century Soft Synth
A massively powerful wavetable and virtual analog software synth two decades in the making, Pigments is a soft synth like no other. Featuring leading-edge wavetable synthesis and Arturia's meticulous analog modeling, Pigments launches a new era for the company. Arturia has spent the past 20 years analyzing and reinventing the most legendary synthesizers of all time, so the time was ripe for a soft synth with a powerful architecture and lightning-fast workflow that makes crafting modern sounds with complex modulations quick, easy, and fun. Pigments may stand on the shoulders of some of the greatest synths of the past, but it delivers avant-garde sounds, features, and playability. With its incredible sonic prowess and remarkable ease of use, Arturia Pigments is a groundbreaking go-to synth for producers, sound designers, and synth lovers alike.
Wavetable and analog: the best of both worlds
Wavetable synths are used to create many of the cutting-edge sounds you hear in today's blockbuster movies, television series, and hit records. But analog synthesis still has a place in contemporary music making. Combining modern wavetable synthesis and analog modeling in one powerful, easy-to-use soft synth, Pigments is a synthesis platform that gives you the best of both worlds. From bombastic basses to evolving pads to molten leads, Pigments has you covered. Pigments lets you run its two sound engines — a triple-oscillator virtual-analog engine and a complex wavetable engine with morphing and import — in parallel for impossibly fat sounds with off-the-charts depth, dimensionality, and harmonic richness.
Near-infinite sound-sculpting control
And to shape the sounds you generate from those sound engines, Pigments has twin filters with dozens of continuously variable filter types and continuous series/parallel routing to give you near-infinite sound-sculpting control. Choose from classic filters among Arturia's V Collection instruments, or take a walk on the wild side and dig in deep with modern filters like Surgeon and Comb. However you shape them, the sounds coming from Pigments will take center stage in your productions.
Incredibly powerful and intuitive
Despite its awesome sonic prowess, Pigments is ridiculously easy to use. We're intimately familiar with the challenge of seizing that flash of inspiration and molding it into sound. It's the most basic — and exciting — part of making music. Pigments streamlines that process with near-limitless patch creation and modulation options at your beck and call in an intuitive user interface that provides visual feedback every step of the way. Throw in cool features such as drag-and-drop Insert and Send routing, and sonic experimentation becomes effortless.
A truckload of tricks up its sleeve
Arturia says that, "while Pigments can sound like other synths, no other synth can sound like Pigments." We couldn't agree more. Simply put, it can do things other synthesizers can't. Pigments' ability to scale quantized pitch modulations lets you easily build complex melodic sequences. It offers continuous unison controls that can be modulated with classic and chord modes. Its wavetable oscillator boasts extensive wave-shaping options with unique aliasing controls. And in addition to the expected modulation sources, it has unconventional ones like the Turing and Binary random generators.
Your go-to killer synth
Pigments also features a battery of modulators — advanced envelopes, morphing LFOs, randomizers, combinators, and more — that bring sound to life, as well as configurable gate/retrig handling for the modulators — great for unusual rhythmic sequences and self-generating patches. Its polyrhythmic sequencer has a strong emphasis on randomness but also has scale control to retain musicality. And Pigments' stunning studio-grade effects — including wavefolder, overdrive, parametric EQ, and delay — make crafting rich, evolving patches instantaneous and fun. Bottom line: if you're in the market for a new go-to killer synth — or even if you're not — Pigments deserves a serious audition. Check it out and you'll be hooked.
Features:
- Combines 2 sound engines in parallel in one powerful, easy-to-use soft synth
- Complex wavetable engine with morphing and import
- Virtual analog engine with 3 oscillators per voice and multiple waveforms
- Twin filters with dozens of continuously variable filter types and continuous series/parallel routing
- Modulate anything with anything, including MIDI, envelopes, LFOs, random sources, and complex function generators
- Integrated polyrhythmic step sequencer and arpeggiator makes it easy to create complex, evolving sequences and arps
- Powerful built-in studio-grade effects
- Visual interface with graphical representation of the most important modules
- Graphical editing, source-based or destination-based
- Living, moving waveform to see your sound come alive
- 4 assignable macros to control multiple parameters at once
- Extensive factory preset library with hundreds of sounds from top artists and sound designers, including Jeremy Savage, Starcadian, Cubic Spline, Mord Fustang, and Jörg Hüttner — plus highlighting of recommended tweakable parameters