Arturia PIGMENTS 5. Is it the time you finally BUY this synth? 

Nope. I still don't get goosebump

Hi - Appreciate your candid assessment - I just bought Pigments 5 for 99US, seems like a no-brainer! I had been relying on Reaper, along with free Synth1 VST, then just recently got an Arturia Keylab MKII with Analog Lab V. I love all the presets, but want to be able to tweak them more, which requires the full version of whatever VST was used - and I think Pigments is the best "native" VST that will allow me to learn more by editing presets, hopefully to inform the creation of my own sounds. Also the MKII has no built-in sequencer/arpeggiator - with Pigments, I don't have to rely on my daw's sequencer. Also excited to see what extent I can assign controls on the MKII to Pigments parameters. But I am busy and a dummy and it may take me some time to figure it all out. So I subscribed to your channel and will return to see if you continue to explore this VST.

​@@mcirillI have serum way faster

​@@mcirillI'm just starting up my home studio, rent-to-own on Analog Lab V Collection X so Im 100% with U on your comment

Yep, the sequencer of this synth is powerful, but seriously: I couldn't find any settings for note density...

@@FoliaSound Setting On/Off probability at or near 100% is going to give you high note density and values closer to zero low note density

Tak, późno odkrywam Arturię, ale się z tego cieszę!

Eeexactly!

Yes but cold and sterile

@@saren6538 just slap a saturator on it. 😅

Thanks, Shane!

Thank you too for being here, I'll check you out on Spotify!

Do you mean install after downloading or you cannot find the files to download and then install? On a Windows machine, if you download the files, they are just an executable installer (no need to "import" them). If you cannot find the files to download, they are in the "My Products" section of your account - click "See More".

I create a lot of my own presets, so probably I won't ever buy any packs, but Arturia's presets are always highly usable!

I did get it for the $20 special price. But, a bit disapointed and only like a few sounds from each bank. The factory presets that come with the v5 upgrade are very good.

hi Paul, what do you use the HydraFreak and Microfreak for ? I'm looking to delve back into synths after a decade of acoustic playing. Cheers!

@@awakenwithoutcoffee heh i misspelled: its the Hydrasynth (Explorer). I use it as a controller for my analog synths because it has an excellent keybed w aftertouch. The synth engine is very flexible and can do many things but it still sounds metallic and tinny to my ears. Very much like a DX7. With the Microfreak I also use it as a MPE controller, especially for the Arturia CS-80 vst. It also has quite a few synth engines that sound great w pedals like the Microcosm. I would start with the Microfreak (has TONS of video tutorials) and if that grabs you level up! Hydrasynth, Korg Minilogue XD or Cobalt 5S are good options. Just make sure to listen to the demos to find the sound you like most!

Depends on your personal preferences and taste, both are amazing!

Whats your take for the best of both for urban music production, such as RnB, Hip Hip, Reggaeton?

Nice!

I think generally French designed pro audio/music products are extremely well designed. France has got huge culture of functional design and you can feel it everywhere...

Yes, it is!

"it takes some time to get used to it" is an understatement.

I'll tweak it more, thanks!

I know Surge, yet I never tried it... Maybe one day? :)

Serum sounds way better

Yes, spot on!

it does. Just search it online how to.

There you go.

Pigments is made in Juce? I had no idea :O

Windows VST plugins can be loaded in Linux using robbert-vdh's yabridge, wine-staging and pipewire, most stuff works fine

@@user-cy4hi9jd4w Thanks, that's the prod I needed to give it a try. Alongside trying to get pulseaudio running on Jack and other audio stuff.

@@FoliaSound The strings utility (standard tool on *nix systems) yields: strings Pigments.dll | grep JUCE JUCE INITIALIZE GUI JUCE SHUTDOWN GUI JUCE shutdowned asked, still JUCE already initialized, JUCED_VIEW_COMP JUCE_BASE_VIEW JUCE_ JUCE Application JUCE FileBrowser JUCE JUCE Timer JUCE Message Thread Which is the surefire sign they're using Juce.

@@user-cy4hi9jd4w My concern is those that require activation, if they even run.

I never had problems with ASC, so I can't answer your question, I'm afraid...

I sometimes just prefer to tweak things and find the solutions out myself, but you're right - I should've taken a look at the manual this time...

99 EUR for this piece of a synth? I'm totally in, but I don't want to spoil too much ;)

Yes, $99 is a decent price even for us hobbyists, and so far it's given me 3 free upgrades, so I'm quite happy with it. There's really a lot here. This, and Phase Plant, and the world is yours!

People will spend thousands to buy a piece of hardware. Pigments supports multi-threading. This price is not expensive. If you sign up to their website and buy anything from Arturia they will cut this price for you multiple times per year.

Agreed!

What do you mean? I really am a Pigments user for a couple of years now...

@@FoliaSound The comment was just for the YT Algo, cause every comment helps the channel :)

Does reason have anything polymeric? Didn't think so byeeeeee

Give it a go, Artur, because it's got multicore support and a lot of optimization in v5!

Oh, I definitely will. But I'm on winter holidays now :)

That's not a standard because the DAWs have to balance the DSP graph to fit the longest CPU time chains onto the least used CPUs, and it was much, much harder to do that when you don't have control over the graph's distribution because plugins can arbitrarily move threads around to different cores. That's why the Steinberg SDK didn't make it easy to make multithreaded plugins, or for plugins to communicate any of their "affinity intent" back to the DAW. So it's an exception to find multithreaded polyphonic synths, and they require a lot of work on the devs side to make them purposefully not disrupt DAWs performance, I.e. causing some of your track's other chains to suddenly randomly not have enough CPU. The poly synth's MT implementations actually have to take a "maximally ungreedy" strategy to try to sidestep the DAW's graph balancing, which is difficult and troublesome, so most avoided it.

Polybrute is a beast! 😎

Cool lol

Ok, I get your point, but I absolutely disagree. VST synthesis is really more than solid these days...

You know hardware synths are just full of pc boards don't you? 🤔

Yes, they are. But PC stands for "printed circuit", not for "personal computer" and that means they are not necesarily CPUs or other digital devices, but also - and most of all, actually - fully analog designs. Cheers!

Hmm may I ask why?

Your loss mate!

You mean: you don't like my channel? Go watch something else!

Do you have a channel we can check to see how awesome yours.... probably is not?? I thoroughly enjoy his channel along with others, always look forward to his videos, which I watch almost right away. He's honest and seems like a good guy.

Nope, I mean general amount of notes vs silence - this is what I was missing. I figured out the lower section later in the vid, but that was not it.

@@FoliaSound hmmm is not on-off switches on probability under the pitch row in sequencer is the same as the control of general amount notes vs silence? Please do correct me.