Arturia Pigments 7 + 2 Expansion Packs: Software Synthesizer

Pigments 7 runs two engines in parallel, chosen from modal physical modeling, a virtual analog triple-oscillator engine, a complex wavetable engine, a sample and granular engine, and a harmonic oscillator additive engine. Engine cross-modulation lets one sound shape another.

The utility engine adds a five-shape virtual analog sub oscillator and noise sources, and it accepts external audio input. Dual filters offer 16 modern filter types and 59 filter modes, plus classic filter types drawn from V Collection instruments. Filters can be routed in continuous series or parallel.

The FX section provides two insert buses and one send/return bus, with three FX slots per bus. Its 20 algorithms include Shimmer Reverb, MultiBand Compressor, Distortion and Vocoder.

The modulation system uses a color-coded workflow with drag-and-drop assignment and hover quick-edit adjustment. Sources include envelopes, morphing LFOs, function generators, random generators and combinators, plus four dynamic, assignable macro controls.

The generative sequencer and arpeggiator create evolving and polymetric sequences, with an advanced random sequence generator and a sequencer lock and browser.

The interface is resizable up to 4K and offers dark and light themes. The Play View is designed for expressive performance and preset browsing, and it is audio-reactive.