Arturia has done a great job creating a homage to OTT, but with a slicker and more detailed interface. OTT's sound has somewhat defined the last 10 years of music and has become a staple for many sound designers. The new multiband compressor is a fantastic addition to this soft synth, OTT, by Xfer Records. You can express yourself even further by importing your own samples and designing custom wavetables. If anything, Pigments 3 is a sonic playground of limitless possibilities for producers, composers, musicians and sound designers alike. The ease of use doesn't limit the possibilities with Pigments 3. Pigments 3 also comes with 500 new presets that showcase the unique feature possibilities, bursting with additive, wavetable, granular and virtual analog synth engines, making this arguably the most powerful synthesis plug-in available.Īrturia has made Pigments 3 easy and intuitive to work with by incorporating a simple mod matrix that allows for endless routing possibilities.

Arturia has created a Utility Engine that hosts a sub-oscillator and two noise-based sample layers while also bringing some of the classic features from V Collection 8, including the new Jup-8V Filter, the BL20 Flanger and Jun-6V Chorus.Įxisting engines, such as Wavetable, now have 64 new Wavetables, making a whopping total of 164 altogether. Especially when we're talking about the sort of crisp digital sounds of a wavetable synth or even the harmonic engine.Pigments 3 is an equally sizeable update, if not more significant, with additive synthesis, thanks to the new harmonic engine. Those aren't the kinds features that inspire fawning headlines, but they can add a lot of depth and nuance to your sounds. This new third layer to a sound is specifically for adding noise and sub bass.

Personally I think the most exciting addition is the utility engine. It also has dual morphing formant filters that can sand off some of the harsh edges, allowing you to get vowel like sounds. A little bit of detune and reverb can go a long way here. I'm especially a fan when it comes to low bassy growls and drones. The results are often reedy or organ-like. The TL DR version is that it uses a combination of sinewaves at different frequencies to generate harmonic overtones. Harmonic additive synthesis is not a particular common method for sound generation, but it can be quite fun and unique. That harmonic engine is probably the headlining feature of Pigments 3.

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