Arturia’s free Pigments 3.5 improve provides M1 help and a distortion module | Engadget

Arturia has been relentless over the previous couple of 12 months with updating and bettering its devices. Whether that is firmware upgrades for its {hardware} or function dumps for its plugins. Pigments, the corporate’s all unique digital synth (versus its meticulous emulations of basic {hardware}), has been one of many largest benefactors of those free updates. Today the corporate is launching Pigments 3.5 one other vital improve to what I’ve stated repeatedly is my favourite tender synth in the mean time. 

While this is not fairly as massive an replace as 3.0, it nonetheless brings loads of new options to the desk. One of the one most necessary is that Pigments 3.5 provides compatibility with Apple’s M1 chips. This is not precisely a flashy new function, however it is going to make many producers very comfortable who’ve already jumped on the hype prepare for the most recent MacBooks.

The largest change to the synth engine itself might be the addition of a cross modulation function. You can use both engine one or two because the mod supply and dial in outcomes that vary from refined weirdness to full on sonic freak outs. Arturia additionally fleshed out its comb filter which has three new modes (LP6, BP6 and HP6) that cleans up sure frequencies excelling at plucks and bowed sounds. 

Arturia additionally added a brand new distortion module to the results part. While there have been choices for including filth in Pigments earlier than, it is a lot extra versatile of an possibility. It has 16 totally different modes with built-in filtering for creating all the pieces from the germanium fuzz of basic guitar pedals, to excessive digital wavefolding and even the tender saturation you’d get from a classic preamp. 

And if that is not sufficient new sound design choices for you, there are dozens of recent wavetables being added too, plus over 150 new presets that showcase the ability of the brand new options.

Lastly, Arturia made some tweaks to the UI that ought to streamline the workflow, together with one-click pattern preview. 

Pigments 3.5 is out there now as a free improve for present house owners. If you have not picked up Pigments but, now’s a fairly good time to, because it’s on sale for $99 till January sixth. And Arturia is even together with three new sound banks without cost — Bass Thermal, Trap Chemical and EDM Kinetic.