There’s also a bunch of effects, like wavefolder, overdrive, parametric EQ, and delay. The waveshaping side gives you lots of options for sculpting the oscillator and fluidly controlling the amount of aliasing, which determines so much of the sound’s harmonic character.Īdvanced pitch modulation which you can quantize to scale – so you can make complex modulations melodic.įrom the modeling Arturia has been doing and their V Collection, you get the full range of filters, classic and modern (surgeon and comb). Two engines: one wavetable, one virtual analog, each now the latest stuff from Arturia. Okay, so what’s under the hood that makes them claim that? Fun.)Īrturia’s marketing copy here is clever – like I wish I’d thought of this phrase: “Pigments can sound like other synths, no other synth can sound like Pigments.” ![]() (I can continue my ongoing mission to make everyone think I’m using analog hardware when I’m in the box. ![]() You get the edgier sounds of wavetable synthesis with all the sonic language you expect from virtual analog, including all those classic and dirty and grimy sounds. I’ve just started playing around with Pigments – expect a real hands-on shortly – and it’s impressive. And it does so in a way that feels coherent and focused. Pigments brings together the full range of possible colors to work with – vintage to modern, analog to advanced digital. And now it’s possible to make powerful morphing wavetable engines with loads of voice complexity and modulation that certainly only became practical recently – plus now we have computer displays for visualizing what’s going on. The funny thing is, wavetable synthesis as an idea is as old or older than a lot of the vintage synths that spring to mind – you can trace it back to the 1970s and Wolfgang Palm, before instruments from PPG and Waldorf.īut “new” is about sound, not history. It’s called Pigments, and it mixes vintage and new together. But they’re back with an original synthesizer in software. ![]() Arturia made their name emulating classic synths, and then made their name again in hardware synths and handy hardware accessories.
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