KVR Audio

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:10 pm

chk071 wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:08 pm
noiseboyuk wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:07 pm
Korg Supporter wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:15 pm I wanted to love it, but it sounds too sterile for me.
So strange. I hate Massive X for precisely this reason, but think Pigments sounds waaay better.
I disagree.

/discussion

You're wrong - I do actually hate Massive X for this reason, and I really do have the final say on this. I've checked.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:10 pm

I don't think either sound sterile, and both are very capable of making beautiful, non sterile, sounds

Dencheg · Post by **Dencheg** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:12 pm

I stopped using Pigments 4 after the UI fonts got small beyond readable.
Did it improve in v5, and in which direction?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:13 pm

noiseboyuk wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:10 pm
chk071 wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:08 pm
noiseboyuk wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:07 pm
Korg Supporter wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:15 pm I wanted to love it, but it sounds too sterile for me.
So strange. I hate Massive X for precisely this reason, but think Pigments sounds waaay better.
I disagree.

/discussion
You're wrong - I do actually hate Massive X for this reason, and I really do have the final say on this. I've checked.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:15 pm

Dencheg wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:12 pm I stopped using Pigments 4 after the UI fonts got small beyond readable.
Did it improve in v5, and in which direction?

I don't think the fonts ever were too small, and, you can resize the GUI anyway.

Or was that some kind of bug I missed?

dumbledog · Post by **dumbledog** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:24 pm

Dang, the Logic Pro of synths. Nice job.

(Now if only I'd get around to using it more...)

mountainmaster · Post by **mountainmaster** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:29 pm

emulator01 wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:36 pm Download via ASC is working now

Thanks. Showing up for me as well now.

enCiphered · Post by **enCiphered** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:31 pm

- external audio processing

Can it be used as an effect plugin now?

jules99 · Post by **jules99** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:42 pm

enCiphered wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:31 pm - external audio processing

Can it be used as an effect plugin now?

Nope. Only kind of. You can sidechain audio into Pigments now. It took me quite bit to find the place where you can then actually use the audio: it's in the utility engine in the Noise 2 slot.

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:43 pm

enCiphered wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:31 pm - external audio processing

Can it be used as an effect plugin now?

Yes... sort of. A quick test suggest that I have to have incoming midi/notes to 'hear' anything, but in the utility section, there is an 'audio in' that can then be effected like any oscillator.

For example, in bitwig you can put it on a track after an instrument, assign the sidechain to that instrument out, and enable 'audio in' in the utility section. That 'just works'.

You'd have to 'drone' a midi signal to it to have it always 'processing' elsewhere, but definitely possible.

briefcasemanx · Post by **briefcasemanx** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:44 pm

Still no update to the analog sound engine, which has terrible sounding oscillators?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:45 pm

enCiphered wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:31 pm - external audio processing

Can it be used as an effect plugin now?

This is what the manual says:

A top user request has been for Pigments to process external audio (from a track or live
input) through its filters and effects. This is now a reality, thanks to an alternate mode for
the second noise source in the Utility engine.

You can't use Pigments as a VST effect plugin.

enCiphered · Post by **enCiphered** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:47 pm

Really cool! Pigments can be used as a multi-effect plugin now. At least if you are using Bitwig

Starting from 7:55

emef · Post by **emef** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:51 pm

aaaaand their website's cabbaged

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:57 pm

Here is the default Pianoteq piano with Pigments as an effect (in bitwig): https://ufile.io/1rfyc4x7

Arturia Pigments 5 out now