Arturia Pigments 3 is out!
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- KVRAF
- 1863 posts since 11 Apr, 2008
It was my experience too when I tested it first.Vortifex wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:21 am In terms of Pigments' sound it does feel to me like it lacks a certain oomph in the bottom end. A lot of the time I'll play something at the top of the keyboard, go for the big double octave bass note to support it and the expected low end just isn't there. It can do bass because I've heard it, so maybe it's just the presets. Last night I was actually checking to see if they'd used the EQ in some of the new presets to high pass them but no, that's just how it sounded.
Adding sine/triangle wave (1 or 2 octaves down) in the Modulator section of the Oscillator usually helps me to solve this "issue".
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- KVRAF
- 1863 posts since 11 Apr, 2008
Yep, VA section is kinda off. Reminds me of bit older vst synths. Maybe they didn't want to overlap with their analogue emulations here(?)briefcasemanx wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:55 am The VA section in Pigments 3 still sounds pretty bad to me, which is weird since I like some of their VA synths. I think it's mostly down to the pulse wave sounding bad, and weird distortion when playing multiple notes at the same time. Sounds vaguely like clipping but the output isn't showing anywhere near clipping, so if it is clipping it's some sort of internal gain staging clipping that the synth isn't warning me about. I hear this on lots of softsynths where it sounds bad when not playing monophonically. My hardware Alexis Ion sounded like this too...great for monophonic stuff, weird and distorted for chords without clear separation between notes.
I own and love every U-He synth and...
It really depends on the Arturia synth. Some of them sound great especially the newer ones like jupiter v4, and the Juno emulation.
I probably reach for the Jun-6v more than any single U-He synth. It is right up there with U-He in sound while being super fun to use.
Definitely, their synths sound different (the last time I had the opportunity to check their V-Collection it was v7). I tried only a few synths, the ones that I was interested in and they all had something in common. Hard to explain. Personal preferences of the brain are playing some tricks, maybe.
- KVRAF
- 5878 posts since 12 Jan, 2018
AFAIK, it should open fine (based on P1 to P2 Update). To be safe, just create a copy of project and then open and verify it if the project plays through as expected.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 125 posts since 9 Oct, 2019
I think that the VA engine is not supposed to sound as a classic analog synth. If you play a sawtooth on Pigments and you compare it with any Arturia analog emulation, it sounds smoother, very similar to the sawtooth on Arturia DX7. It is a digital synth, not trying to sound analog.
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- KVRAF
- 3069 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
Updated and bought the 5pack of presets for 19EUR.
Btw,
I installed them in Pigments 3 but can't see which presets come from which pack when browsing through presets. My error?
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Btw,
I installed them in Pigments 3 but can't see which presets come from which pack when browsing through presets. My error?
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- KVRist
- 445 posts since 17 Jul, 2015
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- KVRAF
- 8802 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
I found the banks!
Go to Presets, then to Store. You will see 5 banks. Click on the clouds to install them. That's it!
Go to Presets, then to Store. You will see 5 banks. Click on the clouds to install them. That's it!
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- KVRAF
- 3069 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
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- KVRAF
- 8802 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
- KVRAF
- 35294 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Or open the library tab and in the search tool you can filter by bank (amongst other things)
- KVRian
- 821 posts since 9 Jun, 2020
And so how are these 500 presets? I never buy presets, but GAS.
- KVRian
- 710 posts since 9 Apr, 2005 from Japan
The plugin is just called "Pigments" (doesn't contain the version number), so it will load in previous projects as expected. Version 3 just adds some new features to the existing plugin. Should be fully backwards compatible.
Stormchild