Apple M1 compatibility: Enjoy native support for Apple’s next-generation M1 processors, ensuring flawless Pigments performance on the latest macOS machines.These filter out certain frequencies in the feedback loop for unique sounds like ambient plucks, shimmering bowed leads, and much more. Expanded Comb Filter: Pigments' comb filter now comes with 3 new damped modes LP6, BP6, and HP6.New Distortion Module: Pigments 3.5’s new Distortion Module combines 16 modes of distortion with built-in filtering, for everything from bubbling germanium fuzz to jagged wavefolding, soft saturation or pure filth.Either engine can be used as a modulation source, with a number of parameters to customize for wild harmonics, unusual waveforms, and extreme sonic results. CrossMod: Introduce cross modulation between engines 1 and 2.This free update launches Pigments into a new era of sound, exploring the intricate colors, textures, and energies at the frontiers of electronic music production, from trap to grime to future bass. Can Pigments 3 still compete? (Spoiler alert: oh, yes.Pigments is a state-of-the-art software instrument that gives you the power of every shade of synthesis. However, in the two years since Pigments was originally released, the competition has heated up, particularly in the wavetable department. The French company has clearly been busy, as version 3 arrives with yet another synthesis engine, an additional filter type and new filter routings, a clutch of new effects, and more. Now, just about two years on from its original release, Arturia have dropped Pigments number 3.

We were impressed enough to include it on our list of the best wavetable synths available.

Not content to set it and forget it, the driven developers at Arturia released Pigments 2 later that same year, adding a sampler and granular engine among other tweaks. With a mix of virtual analogue and wavetable engines, it offered a nice compromise for musicians who wanted the sound of the former and the convenience and complexity of the latter. That all changed in 2019 with the release of Pigments, their first original softsynth. Until recently, Arturia were best-known (software-wise, at least) for their emulations. Can this colourful plugin hold its own in a very crowded softsynth market?

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