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LoveEnigma18 · Post by **LoveEnigma18** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:22 am

Ficciones wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:13 pm The new granular engine is *chef's kiss*, just perfect, carefully thought out and solidly implemented, and the sample and grain parameters benefit from its stellar modulation system. People are selling synth plugins of a fraction its quality and versatility for two and three times the sale price. Ridiculously good. A must-have.

Exactly, and I find Arturia quite generous with their offers. The Pigments 2 crossgrade offer from "free reverb" when it is already available for half the price? That's an insane bargain. Ridiculously generous.

bite_me · Post by **bite_me** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:50 am

JO512 wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:12 pm
ab_sourd wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 3:46 pm with free reverb crossgrade offer is 69 euros!
Thanks for the heads-up!

I don't know how I survive the holiday season financially! I can't pass all this stuff up! Maybe we need to start a plugin-buyers anonymous group!

I feel guilty with too many synths. Now, some of those other ones I paid dearly for will be used a lot less.

I very much do share your pain

Stefken · Post by **Stefken** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:31 am

We could also start a support group for PBSD (Post Buy Stress Disorder).

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:36 am

Stefken wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:31 am We could also start a support group for PBSD (Post Buy Stress Disorder).

aka the wife.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:13 pm

Experimenting with a custom patch using the granular engine in Pigments 2, tweaking the assigned Macros and other parameters on the fly.

SparkySpark · Post by **SparkySpark** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:34 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:13 pm Experimenting with a custom patch using the granular engine in Pigments 2, tweaking the assigned Macros and other parameters on the fly.

Just waited for you to get your hands dirty!

Insane to get a "crossgrade" (in my mind, a crossgrade would be from a competing product such as Avenger, but who cares) from a freebie! As if the freebie wasn't enough! The people at Arturia surely must love Christmas and New Year's Eve!

Keith99 · Post by **Keith99** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 3:37 pm

Decided to buy Pigments as a xmas present for myself but try as I might I cannot get the buying page to accept my money! I have tried twice now and it keeps saying invalid data but I validated the credit card and ticked the disclaimer box etc. Anyone else had this problem or could tell me what data may be wrong?

LoveEnigma18 · Post by **LoveEnigma18** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:30 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:13 pm Experimenting with a custom patch using the granular engine in Pigments 2, tweaking the assigned Macros and other parameters on the fly.

You are the Granular King.

LoveEnigma18 · Post by **LoveEnigma18** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:34 pm

Keith99 wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2019 3:37 pm Decided to buy Pigments as a xmas present for myself but try as I might I cannot get the buying page to accept my money! I have tried twice now and it keeps saying invalid data but I validated the credit card and ticked the disclaimer box etc. Anyone else had this problem or could tell me what data may be wrong?

Might sound obvious, but ensure all the mandatory billing info is in place. I have never faced this problem when ordering from Arturia.

If everything is fine, perhaps try tomorrow? There could be a temporary issue at there end?

Keith99 · Post by **Keith99** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:28 pm

Thanks but I tried again with same result so gave up and went and bought it from Plugin Boutique which went fine - going through the presets now

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:32 pm

The updated Arp and new sample engine are nice additions, you can get a bit more organic sounds now then possible V1:

https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... -2-presets

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:27 pm

Has anyone tried loading multiple samples, setting it to random (or round robin) and using granular? It's really cool, it seems to randomize or round robin the actual grains, giving the effect of sort of using all the samples at the same time (but the grains triggering sequentially) with a new texture combining all the samples that is different from just layering granular oscillators. Try it out. I might have to get this just for the granular alone.

c_voltage · Post by **c_voltage** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:52 pm

Yes, really many ideas coming to mind. Sometimes it seems to me that the programmers from Arturia accidentally born something even better than planned. (joke)

Among other It's worth to mention again his sequencer, damn it's very good system.

c_voltage · Post by **c_voltage** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:26 pm

The only thing (that i already saw in thread from some user) really would be cool to add interaction between modulators and sequencer playback - not only time, but exactly play position (it's supposed to add a knob of the current position).
And vice versa respectively - sequencer as modulator, that more usual thing, can say (Is he really absent from the sources or am I missing something?)
But this is not critical, just another step deep.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:46 pm

Another cool thing is that with mpe it is easy to add a curved response to the expressions, which is pretty rare for mpe synths out there and very useful for getting very different modulations from different ranges of aftertouch or vertical axis.

Arturia Pigments 2 (Free Update): Now it's Granular