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Boy Wonder · Post by **Boy Wonder** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:18 am

Better/easier on CPU, huh? Hmm. Maybe this is the version I can finally use after all these years.

zzz00m · Post by **zzz00m** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:08 am

Pigments + Phase Plant + Vital. All you need?

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 2:07 am

Full V4 feature tour:

Greenstorm33 · Post by **Greenstorm33** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 2:53 am

I definitely preferred the old look for the knobs. That grey gradient just looks bad to me. Minor complaint though - the modulation overhaul is excellent and all the other new additions are great. And for free! Thanks, Arturia.

Dombaeb · Post by **Dombaeb** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:22 am

Really great update, but… What happened with your designer?

Is he spent too much time on Dribbble? He (or she) collected the cheapest trends in UI design with these pseudo sceuromorphic buttons and stuff… I'm not saying that design is the main deal here, but given that you pay serious attention to this (judging by the rest of your products) Pigments now looks like more a student work…

Zoopy · Post by **Zoopy** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:37 am

Dombaeb wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:22 am Really great update, but… What happened with your designer? Is he spent too much time on Dribbble? He (or she) collected the cheapest trends in UI design with these pseudo sceuromorphic buttons and stuff… I'm not saying that design is the main deal here, but given that you pay serious attention to this (judging by the rest of your products) Pigments now looks like more a student work…

hard disagree, but you should send your design portfolio in!!

YoGuRTeLLo · Post by **YoGuRTeLLo** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:37 am

Dombaeb wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:22 am Really great update, but… What happened with your designer? Is he spent too much time on Dribbble? He (or she) collected the cheapest trends in UI design with these pseudo sceuromorphic buttons and stuff… I'm not saying that design is the main deal here, but given that you pay serious attention to this (judging by the rest of your products) Pigments now looks like more a student work…

Now Pigment looks youthful. the road to the young, all things ...

muki · Post by **muki** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:40 am

christmas time is here again

thanks arturia!

the vital-vibe-drag&drop-modulators are super useful

inaheartbeat · Post by **inaheartbeat** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:41 am

I have been playing with it for a while and can definitely say it is noticeably easier on my CPU than V3.5 was. I can run multiple instances in Ableton Live 11.2.6 on Windows with a 64 byte audio buffer and get no issues whereas in V3.5 I would get some high CPU useage spikes. I really like this update a lot so far. I like a lot of the UI changes. Much smoother to work with. I got the upgrade for free but bought the lo-fi and the cinematic patch banks just released for V4. They are really well done.

One thing I noticed which was weird is that if you configure midi in the synth instance to listen to channel 1 it will not receive midi from Ableton when I set my channel and device to my midi keyboard and channel 1. I have to configure the Pigments instance to receive on all channels for it to work. That was definitely weird to me. It took me a while to figure out why I wasn't getting it to play when I loaded an instance of it. This behavior is the same for VST3 and VST2 versions. As it turns out, this is not really much of an issue since I just configure the port information appropriately on the Ableton track.

This turns out not to be the same behavior using the standalone version where it seems to work exactly how you would expect it to.

Dombaeb · Post by **Dombaeb** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:24 am

I would do this, especially to clearly show that five years ago, I was doing something similar, but this is not my blog

In my opinion, Arturia became famous partly for its approach to design. It's always been juicy with rare exceptions. That is why I was surprised that, for no apparent reason, the most modern Pigments rolled back in design in many aspects compared to the previous version.

Nevermind, design discussion is a topic of another forum. I'm just thinking out

Zoopy wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:37 am
Dombaeb wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:22 am Really great update, but… What happened with your designer? Is he spent too much time on Dribbble? He (or she) collected the cheapest trends in UI design with these pseudo sceuromorphic buttons and stuff… I'm not saying that design is the main deal here, but given that you pay serious attention to this (judging by the rest of your products) Pigments now looks like more a student work…
hard disagree, but you should send your design portfolio in!!

Fleer · Post by **Fleer** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:18 am

I’m thinking updates to Pigments will always be free, as it’s now known as Pigments, without a version number, whereas its predecessor went by the name Pigments 3.
Anyway, great Starsky Carr vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2T47uJ7w6Lw

DrGonzo · Post by **DrGonzo** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:31 am

Phew! I just bought a second hand Kawai K4 to have fun with - and when seeing Arturia releasing new stuff I immediately though damn don't tell me they are releasing a K4V now

Nice update! No revolutionary stuff but I like the way Arturia is going with Pigments. And the MS filter is king.

Boy Wonder · Post by **Boy Wonder** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:48 am

My laptop (Ryzen 5/Win 11/Cubase 12) is happy with this iteration so far. I used and recorded some tracks for one solid hour without any freezes. (I usually got about 4 or 5 minutes with Pigments 3 before it froze).

Fornicras · Post by **Fornicras** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:24 am

Modulation drag and drop is a big thing IMO. Although it was easy to modulate things, it wasn't simple like Vital or Serum, now it is. Also, like the GUI facelift, it looks much nicer.
And they made this a free update as usual, excellent.

MadDogE134 · Post by **MadDogE134** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:41 am

still centric, sterile and no real bottom imo

Arturia Pigments 4 has landed