This synth, which comes in plug-in and standalone formats, offers a robust feature set-expanded in some significant ways in Pigments 3-and a variety of synth engines to mix and match. Find out more on the Arturia (opens in new tab) website.Arturia describes the newly released Pigments 3 as a “Polychrome Software Synthesizer,” meaning, according to the simple concept, that Pigments produces a wide range of synthesis colors.Īs soon as I heard some of the demos Arturia posted on the Pigments 3 Resource Page, and then got a chance to play it, it all made sense. 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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