A virtually unlimited arsenal to the delight of sound designers and electronic music composers.īy Luca Barbieri In 2018 Arturia makes its debut on the market with the first edition of Pigments It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX and standalone formats, and you can also download a demo.įind out more on the Arturia (opens in new tab) website.Polyhedral synthesizer and of exquisite workmanship, Pigments 3 implements a very powerful sound engine and a DSP chain capable of producing convincing, unusual and original sounds. Newcomers can currently purchase it for the introductory price of $99 (regular price $199). There are also four new sound banks on the Arturia Sound Store (these are free for new users).Īs we mentioned, Pigments 4 is a free update for existing users. Super Unison can be used to add extreme levels of width to a single voice, and improvements have been made to the Bitcrusher, Jup-8 filter, Multi Filter and Distortion.įinally, the sound library has been expanded with new factory presets, wavetables, samples and noise types.

On the effects front, Pigments now has an MS-20-style filter, while the new Shimmer reverb promises “cathedral-in-outer-space ambience and cinematic detail”.

The Harmonic engine gets Phase Modulation, there are more unison options and, for those who want to dive deep, the Modulator Oscillator now has ratio options and an extended hertz range. Improvements have also been made to Pigments’ voice engines, starting with a new Ring Mod feature for the wavetable engine and a Pulse Width mode for said engine’s Phase Transformation section.

Pigments vst price