Your Wildest Sonic Fantasy Tuned into a Full-Color Reality
From soft acoustic timbres to deep hard-edged bass and from atmospheric choir pads to granular percussive glitches, Arturia Pigments 5 Polychrome Synthesizer Plug-In unites the power of complex synthesis with multifunctional and intuitive design, for a creative workflow that makes your wildest sonic fantasy a full-color reality, whatever your style.
Pigments puts you in control of 4 powerful sound engine types: Sample & Granular, Wavetable, Harmonic, and Virtual analog. Combine any pairing of these engines with an additional Utility oscillator, sampled noise, and your own sounds for a near-infinite synthesis palette. Kick-start your production with Pigments' smart preset browser. Pick a style, an instrument type, or even a sound designer, and choose from 1500+ expertly crafted sounds. Create a sound unique to you and shape to your heart's content with endless modulation options. Animate, enliven, revamp or pulverize any sound with 18 swappable FX types and one-click sequencer/arpeggiator. With its intuitive, color-coded GUI, Pigments takes the intricate details of sound creation and makes them instantly accessible, enjoyable, and yours to explore.
What's New in Pigments 5
- Reduced CPU consumption
- New wavetables and samples
- New generative sequencer featuring one-click sequence generation and new play modes, as well as savable presets and sequence browsing
- Process any audio with FX routing options
- Refreshed interface includes an improved play view with new visualizers and other UX enhancements
- 100 new factory presets and 3 new preset expansions
Every Sound Engine you Need
Wavetable Engine
- Choose from over 160 wavetables, select any waveform snapshot, or morph between them—you can even import your own wavetables to unlock even greater possibilities.
- Transform any wavetable beyond sonic recognition with dynamic tools like phase distortion, wavefolding, and rich unison and voice controls—make it your own.
Sample and Granular Engine
- Browse hundreds of samples or import your own, and render any sound into a detailed granular synth patch at the touch of a button. Warp, contort, stretch, and modulate your samples for timbres ranging from ambient texture to surreal grainy keyboard sounds.
- Choose from 8 granular waveforms, with detailed interconnected controls for grain density, length, start position, pitch, and much more—take any existing sound and effortlessly mold it into something beautifully musical.
Harmonic Engine
- Access the expansive world of additive synthesis, allowing you to create your own custom waveform down to the finest individual harmonic detail. Build acoustic string and wind sounds from scratch, or modulate them for aggressive material timbers that demand your full attention.
- Experiment with up to 512 partials, dual customizable formant filters that can be morphed from A to B, odd and even harmonic customization, partial distribution, complex frequency windows, and more.
Virtual Analog Engine
- Arturia's award-winning analog emulation technology lets you harness the iconic sound of the best synths ever made, in the context of Pigments’ advanced stereo architecture. Enjoy the sought-after vintage warmth and timeless retro charm of analog keyboards, monosynths, and modules.
- The Virtual Analog engine offers 3 oscillators complemented by noise and unison features. Each oscillator has 5 waveforms to choose from, and each has its own tuning, FM, and keyboard controls, much like the coveted bass synths of old.
Utility Engine
- Whether you’re using Harmonic, Wavetable, Virtual Analog, or Sampling, Pigments lets you add equal depth and texture to any sound with the Utility engine.
- This engine can be added to whatever pair of sound engines you’ve chosen to create your sound, allowing you to add an extra oscillator and up to 2 layers of sampled noise. You can also add external audio via the sidechain input.
Twin Morphing Filters
- Choose from 11 filters, from legendary analog self-oscillating ladders to bleeding-edge modern options like surgeon, formant, and comb.
- Refine further with enhanced routing, giving you detailed control over your signal chain. Wire your filters in series or parallel, route each filter to a separate FX bus, or sum both filters pre-FX for that all-encompassing finishing touch.
Boundless Modulation
- Modulate practically any parameter with anything you choose, with no limit on the number of connections.
- Drag and drop any modulation source onto your chosen destination, edit by hovering over, tap into each source for more detail, and see how different elements interact with the color-coded modulation source—never let your modulation out of sight.
Cutting-Edge Effects
- Pigments’ FX panel lets you add diverse shades of color and distortion to your sound with 18 FX types, twin insert buses, and a send bus—each one letting you choose to combine any 3 of the premium effects to create a truly refined, mix-ready sound.
Inject Movement and Momentum
- Instantly transform and melodize any sound with Pigments fully fledged generative sequencer and arpeggiator. This powerful sequencer can turn any note or chord into an animated progression, letting you reinvent any patch with infinite momentum and dynamic modulation.
- Add immediate energy with one-click sequence generation and scale randomization and make use of savable presets, sequence browsing and sequencer lock to apply your sequence settings to any sound.
MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE)
- Pigments pairs seamlessly with MPE controllers that allow for more expressive and nuanced control over multiple parameters as you play. Discover new realms of expressivity with Pigments MPE-compatible library.
Learn while You Play with Color-Coded Interface
- Pigments end-to-end design is laid out like no other software instrument, letting you truly visualize your sound and understand what’s happening, and why.
- Alongside the color-coded interface, make use of additional tutorials to enhance your sound design.
Other Features
- Extensive library of 1500 presets
- MTS-ESP microtuning compatibility
- NKS controller compatible