Pigments is a plug-in and stand-alone instrument available on Windows and Mac OS X in all the usual formats. Storm has long since been retired, but now Arturia are returning to their roots with a software synthesizer entirely of their own design. Since then they've successfully moved into the hardware market with synths, drum machines, MIDI controllers and audio interfaces. Their first product was a complete software music studio called Storm, but it wasn't until they began to focus on software recreations of classic hardware synths such as the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter 8, ARP 2600 and Moog Minimoog that the company really took off. Here we can see LFO 2, in yellow, is modulating Wavefolding Amount and Filter 2 Frequency Shift.Īrturia built their reputation on software recreations of classic synths, now they're back with one of their own.Īrturia have been in the virtual instrument business for 20 years. Find out more on the Arturia (opens in new tab) website.Pigments isn't just a pretty name, it makes excellent use of colour to differentiate modulation sources. It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats. Pigments 3 is a free update for existing users, and new users can grab the synth for the intro price of $99, rising to $199 after 13 May. Looking beyond this, there are further refinements across the board, including additional filter routing options, an added ramp waveform for the virtual analogue engine, and a clutch of new wavetables and presets. There are new non-emulated effects here, too, including a pitched delay and multi-band compressor. These include a new Jupiter-8 filter model, the classic Juno-6 chorus for the effects section, and a Bel BF-20 analogue flanger recreation. Pigments also gains a few analogue emulation tricks lifted from elsewhere in Arturia’s range of software synths and effects. This exists in addition to the synth’s two existing engine slots, making it a handy tool for adding extra weight to a synth sound without having to sacrifice a slot that could have been used for wavetables or samples, etc. Beyond the Harmonic generator, Pigments 3 also adds a new Utility Engine that contains two noise sources and a virtual analogue sub-oscillator.
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