Pigments – Your Ultimate Softsynth VST for Complex Sound Creation

Arturia Pigments 4 Polychrome VST Synthesizer is an advanced virtual instrument that can produce any sound, from contemporary presets to bespoke sound design. Discover every facet of synthesis and transform your sonic vision into a reality that reflects your unique style.

Efficient Sound Design
Craft rich, sonorous, and emotive sounds with a software synthesizer that is robust, versatile, and user-friendly. Pigments demystifies synthesis and sound design, making it easier to explore the limitless spectrum of sound. With color-coded features, single-click modulation, pre-packaged presets, and immediately expressive macros, Pigments is an intuitive instrument that caters to your every whim.

Complete Sound Design Solution
Pigments is the ultimate sound design solution that enables you to create any sound from scratch in seconds, or dive deep when you need to. With a streamlined end-to-end solution that incorporates voice, filters, modulation, sequencing, and effects, Pigments offers a hassle-free sound design experience.

Ideal for Modern Sound Creation
Whether you specialize in hip hop, trap, bass, EDM, lo-fi, cinematic music or any other genre, Pigments’ preset library, precise features, and intuitive workflow can cater to the demands of modern music production.

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

What’s New in Pigments 4?

Play Mode
Enjoy a bird’s-eye view 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 make Pigments easier to navigate than ever.

Improved Sound Design Workflow
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 and Filters
Introducing the MS-20 Filter, Shimmer Reverb, Super Unison, and improvements to several existing effects and filters.

Fresh Sound Exploration
Discover a plethora of new factory presets, wavetables, samples, and noise types.

Multiple Synthesis Types
Pigments empowers you to control four powerful sound engine types: Wavetable, Virtual analog, Sample and Granular, and Harmonic. Combine any pairing of these engines with an additional Utility oscillator and sampled noise for a nearly infinite synthesis palette.

Modulation and Sound Shaping
Mutate and elevate your sound until it’s entirely your own with Pigments’ instant drag-and-drop modulation. Alter your patches with dozens of sources and almost infinite destination combinations, all with a single click.

Musical Sequencing and Arpeggiation
Pigments is not just about creating amazing synth sounds, but also about making music. Weave beautiful melodies, create evolving stepped modulations, and animate your entire sound with a simple yet powerful sequencing and arpeggiation engine that keeps your sound moving.

Color Your Sound
Enhance your patches or send them into sonic orbit with Pigments’ vast yet accessible array of filtering and FX options. Combine or collide dual filters with a selection of classic and modern modes, and add endless color to any sound with studio-grade FX, from Shimmer Reverb to Bitcrusher.

Different Views
Explore your sound without losing focus using Pigments’ clean-cut layout options. Oversee your voices and modulation with the Synth tab, switch to Play Mode for a simple view, 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 combination for uniquely experimental audio manipulation.

Key Features

• Virtual Analog triple-oscillator engine
• Complex Wavetable engine
• Sample and Granular engine
• Harmonic Oscillator additive engine
• Engine Crossmod included
  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

Technical Specifications

Platform Specifications
Windows
Win 10+ (64bit)
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
3GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
ARM processors not supported on Windows

Required configuration
Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS* (64-bit DAWs only).

Apple
Mac OS 11.0+
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or Apple Silicon CPU
3GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

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