Pigments 6

[Milkman]

Can you all please stop hammering on the ASC login so I can get the update? Ok thanks bye.

[starflakeprj]

Can you all please stop hammering on the ASC login so I can get the update? Ok thanks bye.

I installed it like 20 times just so you couldn't

Weird thing though, I installed it about an hour ago, and I worked flawlessly the first time

[Milkman]

Can you all please stop hammering on the ASC login so I can get the update? Ok thanks bye.

I installed it like 20 times just so you couldn't

Weird thing though, I installed it about an hour ago, and I worked flawlessly the first time

Noooooooooo! I just keep trying to log into the ASC, and I get as far as the password dialogue and then after about 5 minutes it times out. Maybe if I offer them the $99 they claim is my "special offer" on their website, it will suddenly connect and download the update? lol

Edit: got it. Took an hour of login attempts, but I got it. Will dive in and see if its worth the $0 I paid.

[starflakeprj]

Can you all please stop hammering on the ASC login so I can get the update? Ok thanks bye.

I installed it like 20 times just so you couldn't

Weird thing though, I installed it about an hour ago, and I worked flawlessly the first time

Noooooooooo! I just keep trying to log into the ASC, and I get as far as the password dialogue and then after about 5 minutes it times out. Maybe if I offer them the $99 they claim is my "special offer" on their website, it will suddenly connect and download the update? lol

Haha, please don't do that
Might be they are using different servers throughout the world, I'm based in the northern parts of Europe (Sweden), and at this time of year, it might be the most boring place to live. Arturia probably knows this at let us skip the queue.

[Cyforce]

Any "personal offer" button leds to a 404 page for me... anyone else with the same issue?

And is it free upgrade for all Pigments owner, or just e.g. "Pigments 5 purchased"?

I didn't have Pigments yet and decided to buy it with the personal offer ; I also got the 404, but when I added it to my basket via the store it automatically applied the discount.

This is a damn fine synth, I'm impressed.

Funny thing, is the website shows me (when logged in) an offer to upgrade to Pigments 6, but in the ASC Software, Pigments 6 is already in and I can download it.

So maybe, just a crossgrade offer from a single purchase of older software. So better check ASC before going for a crossgrade offer displayed on the website

[bonch]

Pigments has a quite particular sound to it. It's uniquely middle of the road sounding.. meaning it can be quite boring. Even distorted and "extreme" sound output still has this finger print on them. Thus if you can not work around this with external effects or clever programming, it is indeed something that could make you dislike the synth.

I've been reading about the "Arturia sound" for years from forum posters, but I'm skeptical anyone could reliably pick it out in a blind test.

[Milkman]

Can you all please stop hammering on the ASC login so I can get the update? Ok thanks bye.

I installed it like 20 times just so you couldn't

Weird thing though, I installed it about an hour ago, and I worked flawlessly the first time

Noooooooooo! I just keep trying to log into the ASC, and I get as far as the password dialogue and then after about 5 minutes it times out. Maybe if I offer them the $99 they claim is my "special offer" on their website, it will suddenly connect and download the update? lol

Haha, please don't do that
Might be they are using different servers throughout the world, I'm based in the northern parts of Europe (Sweden), and at this time of year, it might be the most boring place to live. Arturia probably knows this at let us skip the queue.

Yeah, I can confirm that is what is happening. I got this same thing from Native Instruments (Berlin) when I used them, and I am here in California, in the fascist oligarchy of america. NI throttles connections to the US and then lies about it, but Ive been able to observe it directly. (net/sysadmin)

[HOTF]

ok guys im getting off work soon please leave ASC so I can install when i get home

[MillerSam]

To be clear, the update is free for owners of Pigments. The servers are super slow, like they usual are when a new Pigments or V Collection update drops

Here is a sound demo. Full review on the website

[trusampler]

I just put an Acustica Eq , namely aquamarine or Sunray on Arturia Pigments channels and it comes alive Arturia definitely has a sound, but so does every instrument

[Teksonik]

Pigments has a quite particular sound to it. It's uniquely middle of the road sounding.. meaning it can be quite boring. Even distorted and "extreme" sound output still has this finger print on them. Thus if you can not work around this with external effects or clever programming, it is indeed something that could make you dislike the synth.

I've been reading about the "Arturia sound" for years from forum posters, but I'm skeptical anyone could reliably pick it out in a blind test.

I am 100% sure that I could NOT pick the sound out in a blind test but I understand what they're saying.

I only own three Arturia synths but I've demoed most of the rest and there is "something" about their core sound.

Now I'm not even going to try to define what that "something" is as it most likely can't be defined or perhaps even measured. Maybe it's some kind of subtle Psycho-acoustic effect, I really don't know.

It's not an unpleasant core sound but there does seem to be a common core sound. Nothing that would keep me from buying more Arturia synths (or inspire me to do so) but again I can relate to what they're saying.

[Vortifex]

Very clinical and plastic sounding. Not much sonic character? It's hard to describe why I don't prefer it over my other synths.

A lot of the presets seem to have something missing from the frequency spectrum, making them sound strangely airy and bodiless. A lot of the bass presets need EQ to actually give them some bass. Which is odd, because Pigments absolutely can sound huge, and easily.

[Arashi]

ASC falls on its face literally every single time they release something. This has been the case for at least a decade. Just get it from the downloads page directly:

https://www.arturia.com/support/downloads-manuals

[boombaxx]

The modal synth and the new filters are way beyond an update

[bmanic]

Very clinical and plastic sounding. Not much sonic character? It's hard to describe why I don't prefer it over my other synths.

A lot of the presets seem to have something missing from the frequency spectrum, making them sound strangely airy and bodiless. A lot of the bass presets need EQ to actually give them some bass. Which is odd, because Pigments absolutely can sound huge, and easily.

Pigments just isn't all that good at going wild in a "nasty" way. I'd say Pigments is pretty much the polar opposite to Massive X in terms of sound. Massive X is extremely easy to make it sound super snappy, punchy, forward and nasty. Pigments is the exact opposite. It's super easy to make it soft sounding, unassuming, laid back and mellow.. and when you do try to make it snappy and nasty it just ends up being fizzy and weak.

I guess it's a sum of many parts. The envelopes are rather lazy in Pigments. A lot of the modulation sources feel like they are running at a much lower internal update rate than on some other synths.. or it's the way they internally filter things / oversampling solutions. I don't know. Whatever it is, Pigments most definitely has a "character".

Anyhow, whatever that character is, you simply use it what it's good at and don't even bother going for what it can't do. It's not a be-all end-all synth. It's got a sweetspot and some strengths. When you keep within those strengths it's absolutely amazing!

Speaking of which.. I just made my first preset tinkering with the new Modal synth engine. Turned out pretty good in my opinion. You can download that single preset HERE. (Google Drive, Zip, 19kb)