Arturia has introduced Pigments 7, a major update to their flagship software synthesizer.
Pigments 7 is a free update that they say delivers “punchier sound, sharper control, and deeper playability”. It features the audio-reactive Play View, new filters, Corroder FX, streamlined modulation, and 250 fresh presets, samples and wavetables.
Here’s what’s new in Pigments 7:
- Redesigned Play View: A new audio-reactive interface that helps users preview and understand a sound’s character, with responsive type-specific animations and quick-edit controls.
- New Creative Filters:
- Rage: Feedback-fueled distortion for powerful, driven textures.
- Ripple: Phase-based motion for fluid movement and character.
- Reverb: Timbre-thickening space and weight designed for modern bass design.
- New FX module: A modulation-driven Corroder effect that adds controlled grit, from FM-tinged edges to filtered grain and wide distortion, while preserving the identity of the dry signal.
- Enhanced punch & presence: Updated default amplitude behavior with smoother, S-shaped envelopes that reduce clicks and deliver cleaner, harder-hitting transients.
- Modulation & CPU improvements: Visual modulation range displays for easier editing, plus optimized processing for more headroom in complex, layered, FX-heavy patches.
- New creative content & tutorials: 150 presets, 50 wavetables, 30 samples, and 20 noises, alongside new in-app, use-case sound design tutorials.
Pricing and Availability:
Arturia Pigments 7 is available now with an intro price of $99 USD (normally $199).
It’s a good upgrade. It feels more like a V6.5 to be honest as there are no radical additions, especially a new engine. However, the new filters and FX are welcome, as is more efficient CPU usage for me personally as I am a sound designer and my cinematic soundscapes love to eat up that CPU! The new FM capabilities in the new and existing filters is an interesting addition too. Pigments has always been on a good course and this is a solid move forward.
Pigment is a bargain in the world of powerfull synth VSTi.
And the upgrades have been free since its release. What else could we ask for?
I wish they would have add a more powerful sequencer, in my opinion acid V has the best sequencer in the whole arturia vst collection
Arturia truly rocks with their updates for Pigments. I have never, ever had to pay a single dollar for their Pigments since ver.1 🙂
Something NI should take a note of… $99 for Absynth 6 update anyone… 😉
i will forever disappear once they add patch mutation to their synths