I found it very hard to get lost while using Pigments, and that’s impressive. The main section of the software changes but remains consistent throughout. The Pigments interface is split into three main tabs Synth, FX and Seq. Regardless of how knowledgeable you are about synthesis I wholly believe that you’ll feel at home as soon as you load Pigments. The interface just makes sense on so many levels. Pigments has a very shallow learning curve. Pigments 3 isn’t the only ‘do it all’ soft synth package on the market, so what marks it out as different? Simplicity. Pigments is like a reliable friend who will always support you, love you dearly, has your back in a fight, but happens to also like mayonnaise on cornflakes. But the stranger side of sound mangling doesn’t detract from the overall solid brilliance of this soft synth.

I was going to add a list of caveats about some wilder requirements not being present in this soft-synth, but in reality, Pigments is plenty full of weirdness. In fact, I can probably sum up the question of specifications by saying that if there’s something sonic you want, then you’ll probably find it in Pigments. I decided against listing all the technical specifications for Pigments – Arturia do a thorough job of listing tech specs on their website.

But we’re going to look at what this instrument might do for you as an instrument of inspiration, rather than list technical specifications.

I expect you are reading this review because you want to learn more about Arturia Pigments 3, and you need not worry because that is what you will get. Inspiration is probably the answer to both questions, so can inspiration be bought? But if we’re all playing by the same set of rules how are we creating such a vast spectrum of music? How, for example, can a hip-hop producer look at a particular instrument and use it for bowel-shaking bass, while a soundtrack composer uses the exact same instrument to emphasise tension in a scene. In theory, the fundamentals of music theory can be broken down into a set of rules that are quite mechanical and mathematical. Last Updated on Apby Andrew Culture Is this just another Arturia Pigments review? Not really…ĭeveloping as a musician is a curious phenomenon.

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