Pigments 4

Pigments 4

Polychrome Software Synthesizer

Pigments is a softsynth VST with the power to create any sound, from the best mix-ready modern presets to deep custom sound design. Explore every shade of synthesis and make your wildest sonic fantasy a full-color reality, whatever your style.

The Fastest Way to the Sound in Your Head

Quickly craft the ultra-fat, hard-hitting, soul-stirring sounds you need with a software synthesizer that’s powerful, versatile, and easy to use.

Simple to Use

Pigments deconstructs synthesis and sound design, making it easier than ever to explore the infinite spectrum of sound. Color-coded, single-click modulation, packed with curated presets, immediately expressive macros - all instantly gratifying to use.

Complete Sound Design Solution

A no-nonsense sound design experience that lets you create any sound from scratch in seconds, or deep dive when you need to. Pigments unites voices, filters, modulation, sequencing, and FX in a slick end-to-end solution for your production.

Built for Modern Sound Creation

A software instrument for hip hop, trap, bass, EDM, lo-fi, cinematic music and beyond. Whatever your style, Pigments’ preset library, precise features, and inviting workflow are tailor-made for modern production.

Make It Your Own

Enjoy a softsynth workflow that can be customized to suit your setup, so you can focus on your sound; change Pigments’ appearance, opt for the simplified Play Mode, shake up your audio routing, curate custom preset playlists, and more.

What’s New in Pigments 4?

Play Mode

Take a step back and enjoy a simplified overview of your entire sound, with stripped-back modules and hands-on macros.

New Looks for Your Setup

A refreshed graphical interface and a higher-contrast Light Mode makes Pigments easier to navigate than ever.

The Best Sound Design Workflow Yet

Quick drag-and-drop modulation editing, LFO waveform presets, ODDSound MTS-ESP microtuning compatibility, and more.

Enhanced Engines

Wavetable engine ring mod and PWM, extra Harmonic engine phase options, and streamlined Unison controls.

New Effects & Filters

Introducing the MS-20 Filter, Shimmer Reverb, Super Unison, and improvements to a number of existing effects & filters.

Fresh Sound Exploration

Discover a huge selection of new factory presets, wavetables, samples, and noise types.

Complex Synthesis Made Easy

A sound designer’s dream, a producer’s workhorse, a musician’s playground. With everything only ever a click away, Pigments takes the intricate details of sound creation and makes them instantly accessible, enjoyable, and yours to explore.

Multiple Synthesis Types

Pigments puts you in control of 4 powerful sound engine types: Wavetable, Virtual analog, Sample & Granular, and Harmonic. Combine any pairing of these engines with an additional Utility oscillator and sampled noise for a near-infinite synthesis palette.

Modulation & Sound Shaping

Unleash, mutate, and elevate your sound until it’s entirely your own with instant drag-and-drop modulation. Nothing is off-limits when it comes to altering your patches, with dozens of sources and almost infinite destination combinations, yours to command with a single click.

Musical Sequencing & Arpeggiation

Pigments doesn’t just make amazing synth sounds - it makes music. Weave beautiful melodies, create evolving stepped modulations, and animate your whole sound with a simple yet powerful sequencing and arpeggiation engine that keeps your sound moving.

Color Your Sound

Add the finishing touches or send your patches into sonic orbit with a vast yet accessible array of filtering and FX options. Combine or collide dual filters with a selection of classic & modern modes, and sprinkle endless color into any sound with studio-grade FX, from Shimmer Reverb to Bitcrusher.

Different Views

Get totally lost in your sound without ever losing your focus using Pigments’ clean-cut layout options. Oversee your voices and modulation with the Synth tab, switch to Play Mode to keep it simple, or opt for Light Mode for a higher-contrast look.

Flexible Audio Routing

Choose how Pigments’ voices, modulations, filters, and FX respond to each other with complete control over its audio routing. Direct different engines into different filters, swap series for parallel, or find your own combo for uniquely experimental audio manipulation.

Your Blank Solid Canvas

Whatever sound you need, Pigments can take you there - from bright nylon-like plucks to the fattest wavetable sounds, dark hip hop & trap bass to creeping film soundtrack ambience.

Choose Your Station

Get totally lost in your sound without ever losing your focus using Pigments’ clean-cut layout options, making sound design and production an immersive visual experience.

Light Mode

Illuminate Pigments entire GUI with a higher-contrast look, great for lighter DAW workflows or keeping your eyes focused during those late night sessions.

Play Mode

Keep it simple and see only the essential elements of your sound, including core voice controls and a real-time modulation visualizer, to maintain that creative momentum unhindered.

Dedicated Tabs

Always stay on top of your sound, where your focus is, thanks to clear sections for each element of Pigments’ chain: Synth, FX, and Seq, complete with their own full bypass buttons.

The Sound Store

Curate your own library of sounds to suit your style with hundreds of sound banks, updated monthly, crafted by world-renowned producers, artists, and sound designers. Explore sounds directly in Pigments’ preset browser or the online store and create a sound library that works for you.

3 new Pigments sound banks, 3 new points on the synthesis spectrum, 3 new sonic explorations to inspire your creativity. Discover Wavelengths, available now.

An exclusive selection of fresh sounds pushing Pigments’ new features to the limit. Each bank includes 150 presets, exploring the bold, colorful, exploratory sounds that Pigments is renowned for. Available now on the Arturia Sound Store, and free for new users.

The Features You Need

In-App Tutorials

Integrated in-app tutorials guide you through every aspect of the instrument, from individual parameters to tips from Arturia's sound designers, so you can focus on the creative stuff. It shouldn't be this easy, but it is!

ASC

Arturia Software Center lets you download, organize, and update all of your Arturia software titles in one place, as well as manage all of your licenses across multiple devices. Keep it simple.

DAW Ready

Arturia's virtual instruments and plugins are designed to fit right into your setup without hassle. Whatever your style, you can explore sound while enjoying full compatibility with major DAWS, on both Windows and MacOS.

Preset Browser

Instantly find the sound that’s in your head with intelligent & streamlined preset browsing. Search with keywords, explore by instrument type, musical style, and more - you can even save your favorites to quickly recall later.

Resizable GUI

Whether you want the full visual immersion of Arturia's classic instrument emulations, or to save precious screen real estate, the interfaces for all of your Arturia virtual instruments can be resized to a scale that suits you.

Perfect Integration

Instruments come seamlessly mapped for the Arturia KeyLab range - but they’ll place nice with other MIDI controllers too. Instant sound tweaking macros, easy DAW integration, and standalone operation.

Features

• Two engines in parallel
  • Virtual Analog triple osc engine
  • Complex Wavetable engine (including over 160 wavetables)
  • Sample & Granular engine (including sample library)
  • Harmonic Oscillator additive engine
  • Includes Engine Crossmod
• Third Utility engine
  • 5-shape Virtual Analog Oscillator
  • 2 Sample-based Noise Engines
• Two filters
  • Classic filter types from V Collection instruments
  • Modern filter types
  • Continuous series/parallel routing
• Powerful FX section
  • 2 Insert buses, 1 Send bus, 3 FX per bus
  • Modulable parameters
  • 18 algorithms including Shimmer Reverb, MultiBand Compressor, Chorus JUN-6, and more.
• Advanced modulation system
  • Color-coded workflow
  • Drag-and-drop assign, hover-over adjustment
  • Envelopes, LFOs, Function generators, Random src, and more
  • 4 dynamic, assignable Macro controls
• Visual interface
  • Graphical representation of the most important modules
  • Simplified Play Mode
  • Dark or Light themes
• Polyrhythmic Sequencer and Arpeggiator
  • Create complex, custom and evolving sequences/arps
  • Advanced random sequence generator
• Extensive library of 1400 presets
• MTS-ESP microtuning compatibility
• MPE compatibility
• NKS controller compatible

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit only) (M1 Mac Supported)
• 4 GB RAM
• 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
• 3 GB free hard disk space
• OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
• Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).

Windows

• Win 10+ (64-bit only)
• 4 GB RAM
• 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
• 3 GB free hard disk space
• OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
• Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).

Protection

• All Arturia software is protected by the Arturia Software Center.