Ambient Pads & Drones Sound Design with Pigments (with commentary) 

Please let me know which topic you would like to have me working on next time!

Following along but using the ImpOSCar3 what a delight! Not only is the synth incredible but it was complementing your pad nicely :D It was Jam Sesh! Thanks!

Martin, this is an excellent video. You've totally changed how I approach designing pads, and have given me yet another reason why I love Pigments.

Thank you very much for this one. Learned a lot. For me, the main takeaway is: don't overdo it, keep it simple, split up the patches so you can use external effects like Supermassive, and plan. Thinking in low, mid and high sounds is a good one. I do have the tendency to "choke" the lower end of the spectrum. Great to see a Pigments tutorial in a musical context, instead of the "mechanics" of the instrument. Much appreciated!

So I followed your video to the absolute "T" and by that I mean when you made a change I made a change and my change mirrored your change. And oh my lord I just sit here listening to this all day! Thank you for taking the time to make these. There are those of out there that absolutely look forward to you're next session!!!!

Exceptional learning experience. So informative, showing us ‘real’ tips and tricks, at a steady pace! Thank you Martin!

Missed the live broadcast but this is very inspiring! Thank you Martin and Neptun!

Thank you! you are the best ambient performer! ))

Pad 2 has some Robert Rich vibes in it. Love it!!

Thank you so much. This tutorial was such an amazing journey.

Danke Martin. Was für ein sensationelles Tutorial!!! Ich habe den Pigments-Synth schon länger, aber kaum erforscht. Diese Komplexität ist nun garnicht mehr so undurchschaubar wie ich ihn bisher empfunden habe. Ein ganz herzliches Dankeschön für diese herrliche Inspiration. Grüße, ein Like und ein Abo selbstverständlich!😃

Hi, Martin !! I got an Arturia Minilab 3 and figured out that the best I can do is to use a soft synth such as vital. I need tutorials like yours. I used to dream of making my own space ambient music.... and you are just about to start that with your help. I also love to mix melodic techno with a DJ mixer... I have a very small room, no place for much equipment.. my desk is pretty full already. I would add that music has saved my life. So, your tutorial is also very HEALING to me.. and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. If I am happy, my kids are happy and they thank you as well. So many musicians are SO generous and that blows my mind. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for this! Have had a 2 year break from making music,. Just started to produce ambient again, i needed something to do with my time after my dog passed a way 2 weeks ago. And videos like this is really motivating to get back into it :).

very inspiring. thank you!

Always a pleasure to listen to / watch 😀

Excellent, Martin. Very informative

Brilliant this, thank you sir.

Thank you Martin🤗

very helpful tutorial 🎶 thank you very much 🙏

Hi Martin, thank you very much for this excellent tutorial!

just love the ambience, serependy you bring to me thru your music. Willen Dank.

Omg , that intro is just....wonderful ❤you earned my sub😊

Martin - your tutorials are life-changing. Thank you so, so much

Vielen Dank für die Einblicke, das ist sehr sehr inspirierend 👍

Really enjoyed this one, Martin. Super useful as always, and a lovely insight into some of the sounds you make. Really appreciate how you're taking the time to break down each sound, and answer questions as you go along.

Martin thank you for this beautiful generous sketch of your process; So many enlightenments for me!

It was a great talk and it solved a problem that had puzzled me for a long time! Thank you!

Martin, thank you, this was fantastically useful! So interesting to see how you do certain things your way.

Congratulations on your award and recognition! Much deserved.

Pads and all are nice but I hit like and subscribe as soon as I saw that cat ❤

Great video! Will be subscribing to check out more. You have a great style.

I recently acquired Pigments and so far really liking it and I really appreciate the long form content on this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Hi Martin. Thank you, Jacopo from Venice. Italy👍🌈🎵🌟

Martin, i really enjoy this new stream format and the idea of doing these kind of production streams on a regular basis. Thank you so much for putting so much work and enthusiasm into this. I did learn so much from you, and especially of course in these last streams. I would love to see some UHE repro stuff and maybe sometimes in a different genre - iirc you also like dub music? but of course the most important point is that you feel good while streaming so i will enjoy everythiing you like ;)

This is awesome!

thank you bro 🙏

Vielen Dank Martin❤

Congratulations on your Schallwelle award!

U-He and Arturia need to do something together. Imagine what Vst they could co-create. Hmm

Hi Martin, Tollem kanal hast du da. Verfolge dich schon einige zeit. Klasse livestream

great taste of sound design, nice cooking

Hi Martin, great video! What features and improvements would you like Arturia to add to Pigments with a future firmware update?

Hello! I know most people consider this to be basic stuff but I would love some specifics about designing particle sounds, I recon that is achievable by just using a shimmer fx but I wonder if theres a way to have more control on it, the speed, spreading in the stereo field and even the use of fifths and other harmonics in a more controled way. This will look dumb for most people but I'll ask anyway, since my mind works in a very visual context: (I imagine in my fertil mind a swarm of cristal flys moving around me in a similar pattern) (also inspired by Richard Wright and David Gilmour in Shine On You Crazy Diamond arpeggio, the image of a big diamond rotating and reflecting one beam of light in multiple coolours and 360 degree direction, also in a fixed pattern) Thank you for the great content, subscribed and checking your older videos with much interest!

Hi Martin, this is really wonderful. I have discovered your channel and music lately and it's absolutely amazing. I noticed that some of your clips would use irregular timing 17 or 24 bars - is that on purpose to create different overlapping points when looped over time? Thank You.

Sorry I couldnt make it live, had errands today, i will watch it tonight! thank you!

A little fyi: per my experiences, the envelopes in pigments seem to operate somehow independently from the VCA envelope, which means that making the release of the envelopes to 20s is going to take substantially more processing power for the patch than if you set it to something reasonable like 6 or 7s. That's what I would recommend, umless you intend to use all 20s.

I am loving this walkthrough! I copied what you did on Pad1 in the PolyGrid in Bitwig and make an amazingly luscious pad sound :)

Fantastic stream! Respect from Ukraine!

Glückwunsch zum Schallwelle Award. Video läuft.

This was excellent Martin, I use Pigments a lot so it was interesting to see your approach. On the question of using the external input, I've been using this for guitar effects recently. I was thinking of making a tutorial but I think it would only interest about 3 people on the entire internet! One issue is you don't get any sound unless there's a MIDI note to open the envelopes, so to use as a regular effect processor you need to feed it a sequence and crank the release up to get a constant sound. The effects are largely very good, but what makes it more interesting than regular effects are the synth filters and modulation, in particular things like the random modulators. Of course, you can use the effects on hardware synths or VSTi's in a DAW, drum tracks or anything else. It's definitely worth checking out if you already have Pigments!

That is a nice explanation and sound design lesson for such a cool synth. Where did you find and get the Waldorf Iridium wavetables?

Output Portal can be an Hologram Microcosm FX as a Plugin. Its very complex and sounds lovely

Om 🎉grande saund 🎉🐱

Electro-Harmonix Ocean 11 is one hell of a good reverb with a lot of interesting algo for not too much. Looks at guitar pedal, there is good options there.

excellent,thank you enjoying the insight into your modulation routing and techniques.I am migrating over to Bitwig after years on Cubase any help with modulation routing or uses inside of bitwig would be really helpful.

Tolles Tutorial. Wäre super, wenn Du das Bitwig-Projekt teilen könntest. :)

Om🎉 grande 🎹🎶🎹😻

Martin thanks! Why don't you make Pigments 5 presets with nice pads and sell them for $10-15. I think many would like to buy!

Which synthesisers you are using. Your sounds are so great..🫶🏽

whats the benefit of using the external reverb vs the reverb in Pigments?

About stuffing Supermassive in a pedal, I remember seeing someone intalling it in a Windows mini PC the size of a large phone. Not sure about the price though. I believe you can also host VSTs in Raspberry Pi Linux.

Hey Martin, is there a specific reason you favor insert reverb vs aux? So many people say reverb and delay should only be used as aux or "its wrong" to use it as inset efx. What's your opinion on that topic? I personally like both options - one makes things more even (aux) but having different types of revverbs creates more textures and that's a good thing I think in Ambient music. Plus the CPU is more forgiving with ambient as there is usually a more minimal approach.

Please make a pad tutorial with any of your favourite HARDWARE Synths please 🙏🙏🙏

@MartinStuertzer When and where is your gig in Berlin?

Hello Martin. Perhaps you already discovered this, but the high frequency spike at nyquist is from Supermassive. I am not sure exactly what is happening to cause it but if you turn down the MOD Depth in Supermassive the spike goes away. Perhaps the modulation inside Supermassive is causing some non-linearities, It may be worth asking Sean Costello what is happening technically.

Превед медвед. Great tutorial! What headphones did you use?

vielen dank für die neuen ideen! bei der gelegenheit: wenn die random-lfo ausgehen, könnte man auch die random-generatoren verwenden?

Neptune is the Conductor.

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Glückwunsch zum Preis! Hochwertige Pedale und externe Effektgeräte hören sich deutlich besser und präsenter an als Plugins, irgendwann siehst du es ein ;) - selbst wenn es DSP basierte Pedale sind. Es ist einfach nicht das selbe. Habe etliche Tests gemacht, weil ich auch in Frage gestellt habe, ob sich der Kauf von teuren Pedalen heutzutage noch lohnt. Jedes mal, wenn ich z.B. den Eventide Space mit den Valhalla Plugins verglichen habe, gefiel mir der Pedal-Sound deutlich besser. Viel tiefer und nicht so matschig mit unschönen Überschneidungen. Gerade bei so übertriebenen langen Hallfahnen und Delays ist das schon nice, wenn man wirklich gute Effekte hat. Auch Delay und Modulationseffekte hören sich ganz anders an. Es ist eine Geschmackssache, keine Frage. Ich kann das gut verstehen, dass ordentliche Bands oder Produzenten schon immer in hochwertige Studios gehen, um einen ordentlichen Sound zu bekommen. Wenn man diese Tracks mit langen Valhallafahnen mal laut macht, tut es meistens weh auf dem Ohr und es hört sich undefiniert matschig an, miese Überschneidungen. Es ist trotzdem wunderbar, dass heute jeder die Möglichkeit hat günstig zu produzieren.

This seems/resembles a Reese bass

How do you compare pigments to phaseplant?

Hi Martin, I'm writing to you from Italy, I follow your channel a lot, I wanted to ask you if I could delve deeper into the topic of (phase correlation on ambient music)? I don't know if you can do it, but thanks anyway

Can't get it wrong with Arturia.

Please sir do release the last conversation track i just need please sir😢❤

I can hear you loud and clear

Since the Pigments 5 update it can't really use it anymore. Freezes, crashes ... I don't know why, I did not change anything on my setup. Reinstalled multiple times, nothing changed. Same problem in standalone or within a DAW...

Hallo Martin, ich bewundere wirklich Dein Wissen und die Handhabe all der virtuellen und analogen/digitalen Soundmaschinen, von denen ich nicht sehr viel vestehe, es aber bewundere, wie Du die Klangformung außerordentlich beherrscht.. Aber es wäre doch auch gut, ein Tasteninstrument auch spielerisch zu beherrschen, und das kann ich hier zunächst noch nicht erfassen. Bei Deiner Intelligenz wäre es doch mal eine Herausforderung, mal wirklich Klavierspielen zu erlernen, oder? Verstehe dies bitte als *konstruktive Kritik* .. und weiterhin frohes Schaffen.. :)