Pigments 5 – POLYCHROME SOFTWARE SYNTHESIZER

We’re thrilled to present Pigments 5, a softsynth VST with the power to create any sound, from the best mix-ready modern presets to deep custom sound design. Explore every shade of synthesis and make your wildest sonic fantasy a full-color reality, whatever your style.

Here’s what you can expect in this new release:


• New curated content and sounds (MPE)

• Play View

• Multi-core processing
• Sequencer Upgrade

• Audio Input

• QOL improvements

What’s New?

New curated content and sounds: Discover a huge selection of new factory presets (150 added), wavetables and samples in Pigments 5 comprising more than 1500 sounds!  3 new preset expansions bank will also be available in the Pigments sound store (each bank includes 150 presets MPE designed for more expressivity).

Seamless performance: Pigments now utilizes multi-core processing for greater CPU efficiency, allowing more users to explore this powerful softsynth with ease.

Ignite your creativity: Explore the much-requested sequencer developments from one- click sequence generation and new play modes to saveable presets and sequence browsing. Make use of the sequencer lock to apply your sequence settings to any sound.

Shape and transform your own sounds: You can now process external audio in Pigments from the Utility engine, by routing the sound to the instrument through the track sidechain input.

Compose in style: Pigment’s refreshed interface includes an improved play view, with new waveform visualisers and other enhancements.

Enhanced FX Routing: You can now choose whether the AUX FX send is routed pre or post the insert effects, letting you send the processed audio into your spatial effects.


Generate new ideas:

• You’re now able to create new sequence with 1 click, either using the generative algorithm or by browsing your sequence presets.
• Use this powerful and intuitive sequencer on ANY sounds:
• Save your favourite sequences.
• Use the Sequencer Lock to apply your sequence to any preset.
• Use Pigments Sequencer MIDI Output to send notes to other instruments.


Experiment more and more!

• The New FX Routing allows you craft the timbre with effect before sending it to your spatial effects in the AUX bus.

• Use the Phase Init parameter on the wavetable oscillator to control on your phase alignment for surgical kick bass mixes.

• With the added audio input in the utility engine, you can now shape and transform your own sounds with the whole Pigments processing power.

Discover:

• CPU optimization: thanks to our CPU optimization using Multi- Core processing, we are trying to reach more and more customers and make this instrument more usable.
• Explore the most vanguard shades of synthesis & timbres with new curated content and sounds.
• New factory preset bank (100 presets).
• 3 new preset expansions: precise artistic direction based on genre for each of the bank.
• New Wavetables: Top quality and versatile new wavetables with a unique specific timbres.
• New Samples: from vocal samples to 808 basses, explore the possibilities of Pigments with all the different flavours.
• Revamped Play View: With a modern a new interactive audio spectrum.

Pigments features a twin audio engine, letting you mix virtual analog and wavetable oscillators with a sample engine to create the perfect starting point for your patch. You can even morph wavetables, granularize samples, and import your own sounds to warp and contort.

What you do next is up to you.
Experiment with 3 envelopes, 3 LFOs, and 3 function generators. Assign modulators to animate your sound, and breathe life into it. Add controlled, or totally wild random changes to any parameter with a Turing probability generator. Run it through 2 filters, with any combination of iconic analog filters or modern formant and surgeon filters you want. Process your patch with exciting contemporary effects like wavefolder and multifilter, or vintage studio reverbs, tape delays, and EQs.

“Routing” isn’t a Dirty Word
Scanning a matrix for the right parameter works, but it isn’t the only way. Thanks to its unique interface, Pigments doesn’t just make complex modulations easy, it makes them fun. This is a new approach to building sounds.

Making a Masterpiece
For 20 years, Arturia have been analyzing, emulating, and refining the most iconic synthesizers ever made.

Working with Dr Robert Moog, Cameron Jones, and many other industry legends, Arturia have built their reputation on creating world-class instruments. They turned the music industry on its head with the release of their trailblazing, affordable analogue hardware synthesizer, the MiniBrute.

With multiple awards under their belt, you could say that Arturia have done their homework. Pigments combines their passion for vintage FM and analogue sound with modern wavetable synthesis to create what is, to us, the ultimate software synth.