Arturia Pigments 6, Download Overview
Pigments offers 6 types of synthesis, a deep modulation system, high quality effects and a generative arpeggiator-sequencer, all in a clear and intuitive interface.
Arturia’s most powerful and versatile synthesizer
Packed with cutting-edge features like the groundbreaking Modal Engine, vibrant new filters, an innovative vocoder, enhanced granular capabilities & more!
New Modal Engine: Delivers physically-inspired tones, from plucked strings to resonant pads, adding hybrid synthesis capabilities.
New Filters: Includes analog-style Multimode V2, the Cluster filter for layered textures, and LoFi for vintage-style coloration.
Vocoder Effect: Enables classic vocal effects and experimental sound design.
Enhanced Modulators: Features per-voice modulation values, randomisation, audio-driven envelope followers, and improved function curves.
Granular Improvements: Offers time-stretching, randomised grain playback, and adjustable grain size for evolving textures.
- _Create soft plucked string sound - Select the string resonator mode, use the collision exciter only. Lower the brilliance knob to have a natural sounding decay.
- _Create a chimes layer for a pad - Use the friction excister with a very slow rate, or Use the granular exciter with a low rate and add random to the rate. This will add a subtle layer of chimes to your sound.
- _Create metallic timbre while maintaining a solid sense of pitch - Create dissonant tones with Warp and Shape knobs. Then increase the Range knob to protect the first harmonics from the wrapping and preserve the base pitch of the sound.
- _Use the modal resonator like a regular oscillator - Turn Decay and Brilliance all the way up to make the resonance infinite, and use the collision exciter, which excite all frequencies by the same amount. With this basis you can tailor the oscillator with the Warp, Shaper and Timbre parameters, and use the filters and Amp enveloppe like if it was a regular oscillator.
- _Use Warp quantize to modulate the pitch of the partials while staying in tune - Turn on Warp Quantize (the little Q to the right of Warp). Then modulate the Warp and Shape knobs with lfos or random modulators.
- _Formant filter with the Cluster filter - Select the LP+HP 24 mode with the cluster filter. Set a high resonance and a cutoff of 700Hz. Modulate the spread between 0 and 0.5, and play a rich signal like a Saw wave. Bonus: Add a bitcrusher in the FX to increase the vowel effect.
- _Aliased Keys with the LOFI filter, to emulate the effect of old samples played across the keyboard - Select a source with few harmonics, like a sine, a triangle or a e-piano sample. Turn up the Keytracking to maximum. Enable pre-filter. Turn down the Freq knob until you have the right amount of aliasing.
- _Resonant filter without losing bass - Select Classic filter LP, in Analog mode. Modulate the filter cutoff by an envelope. Play a bassline with a simple Saw wave, and increase resonance. For more grit, increase the output volume of the oscillator.
- _Talking Synth - Make Pigments talk using the external Audio Input with your voice. Experiment with Daft Punk like signature sounds and go beyond using Pigments capabilities.
- _Colour Bass Sound Design - Set the vocoder modulator to any point in your signal chain or to FX input to self vocode your signal to discover a new sonic territory. Mess around with the Mode, Bandwidth and Band Numbers to go from a very modern resonant spectral sounding vocoder to a cheap dirty one.
- _Water Drop Effect - The Gate parameter allows to trigger individual band only when the amplitude of the band is greater than the threshold value. Find the sweet spot for your input sound and play with the Decay parameter to create droplet effects.
- _Voice Modulator - Create organic variations in the spirit of analog synths with the Voice Modulator, creating differences on the modulated parameters between each note played.
- _Envelope follower - Use the sound anywhere in Pigments audio chain and use its amplitude to create movements to any parameter to create organic behaviours.