Pigments 3 also features a new range of vintage-inspired effects processors which makes the plugin much more interesting for retro sounds. The routing also got new routing options. The developers have also incorporated the filter from the new Jupiter-8 V4 emulation, introduced with the VC 8 in the new Pigments version. Depending on which noise you use, you can give sounds a nice vintage, crackling character. With these, you can make any sound even fatter and richer. Version 3.0 also ships with 64 new wavetables (total of 164) and a new ramp waveform for the virtual analog engine.īesides the new additive engine, Pigments 3 also includes a new 3rd utility engine that features a multi-wave sub-oscillator and up to 2 noise sample layers. So you can combine them in any of the two slots, which significantly expands the sound spectrum of Pigments once again. This means you can now choose between virtual analog, wavetable, sampler, or additive synthesis. A little NI Razor for Pigments but not that crazy. From crystal clear bells, organic basses to complete harmonic chaos. The nice thing about additive synthesis is that it introduces a completely new sound palette. Plus odd and even harmonic customization, and various other ways to modulate the partials. Then, you get a dual formant filters section in the middle that offers morphing from A to B, odd. It adds a detailed additive synthesis with up to 512 partials that can be deformed and manipulated in various ways.

The big highlight of this 3.0 update is a brand-new additive “harmonic oscillator” engine that you can now find in the oscillators.

With Pigments 3.0, Arturia is showing another impressive free update for its all-in-one synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows Not only its deep engine should be mentioned here but also the brilliant interface which is completely color-coded. Started as a competitor for Serum and others, Version 2.0 added sampler functionalities, granular synthesis, and classic analog-modeled filters, which made Pigments significantly more versatile and complex. Since its introduction in 2018, it has seen many impressive further developments. In Pigments 3, Arturia takes his sound explorers into the deep worlds of additive synthesis paired with a new filter, effects, sounds & more.Īrturia describes its multi-engine plugin as a polychromatic Synthesizer plugin.

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