While some other international music manufacturers, try to be as global as possible with their marketing, Arturia takes great pride in being a very french. From their interpretive dance promotional videos to the “Wait! Is this a perfume ad?” hype video for their most recent product launch, it’s not hard to decipher that Arturia loves who they are and where they’re from…
It’s this approach that has led to some very French innovative products, including their new soft synth, Pigments.
Combining the two different synthesizer worlds, it fuses a wavetable synthesis engine with virtual analog technology, to create a hybrid that can emulate current sounds, but more importantly, showcase its own unique sound. And it’s this type of philosophy that has pushed the limits of soft synth technology forward.
After spending 20 years analyzing and emulating the best synthesizers ever made, Arturia has leveraged that knowledge to create an original, very French “uniquely Arturia” software synthesizer. Arturia claims that while Pigments can sound like other synths, no other synth can sound like Pigments. Some of these attributes include:
• AScale quantized pitch modulations to build complex melodic sequences
• Continuous unison controls that can be modulated, with classic and chord modes
• Extensive waveshaping options for the wavetable oscillator, with aliasing control
• The usual modulation sources and some more unconventional ones like the Turing and Binary random generators
• Gate/retrig handling for modulators to inspire unusual rhythmic sequences or self-generating patches
• Polyrhythmic sequencer with an emphasis on randomness – with scale control to remain musical
Arturia Pigments Features:
» Two synth engines running in parallel
• Virtual Analog triple oscillator engine
• Complex Wavetable engine with morphing and import
» Twin filters
• Classic filters from V Collection instruments
• Modern filters like surgeon and comb
• Continuous series/parallel routing
» Effects section
• 13 stunning effects, including wavefolder, overdrive, parametric EQ, and delay
• Insert or Send routing options with drag and drop for easy switching
• All the essential parameters can be modulated
» Advanced modulation system:
• Modulate anything with anything
• Graphical editing, source-based or destination-based
• Envelopes, LFOs, Function generators, Random sources
• 4 assignable Macros to control multiple parameters at once
» Visual interface
• Graphical representation of the most important modules
• Living, moving waveform to see your sound come alive
» Polyrhythmic Sequencer and Arpeggiator
• Create complex, custom and evolving sequences or arps
» Extensive factory preset library
• Hundreds of presets from recording artists & sound designers, including Jeremy Savage, Starcadian, Cubic Spline, Mord Fustang, and Jörg Hüttner
• Highlighted “notes” to show which parameters are recommended to tweak
Arturia’s Pigments will set you back $199 / €199 – although they have a special going on now.
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