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52 minutes ago, Tim Smith said:

I watched a few demo videos of pigments a few days ago. I'm on the fence but getting close. It seems a lot like many other synths to me. Maybe not. For the asking price at 1/2 off it is probably worth a try.

Pigments is absolutely worth it, especially if you are into "sculpting" your own sounds. If you are looking for a preset machine, it has plenty of those too, but then so do many other synths.

What makes this synth stand out:

• Arturia has made all of the version upgrades since v1 free for Pigments owners. So the v2.0, v3.0 and 3.5 were free upgrades. Great value!!!
• It offers many types of synthesis on-board, in an easy to use, intuitive package. You can also import your own waves into the wavetable engine.

Here is a good overview at Sweetwater, as well as a playlist of video demonstrations >>> https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Pigments3--arturia-pigments-3-software-synthesizer

Wavetable, analog, granular, and harmonic engines: a quadruple threat

• Wavetable synths are used to create many of the cutting-edge sounds you hear in today’s blockbuster movies, television series, and hit records. Granular synthesis is capable of creating otherworldly synth sounds by deconstructing sampled material. Harmonic additive synthesis manipulates partials for next-level sound design. And analog synthesis remains a staple of contemporary music making.
• Combining modern wavetable synthesis, granular synthesis, harmonic synthesis, and analog modeling in one powerful, easy-to-use soft synth, Pigments is a synthesis platform that gives you the best of all worlds. From bombastic basses to evolving pads to molten leads, this soft synth has you covered.
• Arturia Pigments lets you run up to two sound engines — a triple-oscillator virtual-analog engine, a detailed granular synthesis engine, a harmonic synth engine, or a complex wavetable engine with morphing and import — in parallel for impossibly fat sounds with off-the-charts depth, dimensionality, and harmonic richness.

25 minutes ago, Tim Smith said:

The magazine industry is slowly dying. Most recent magazines I subscribe to are at least 50% filler or more.

The magazine industry and the newspaper industry face similar challenges. The advertisers are what have provided the majority of the income for publishing companies for decades.

But the internet has been changing that, as more and more advertisers have moved online, looking for clicks. It's been much worse for daily newspapers. Periodical magazines still have the full page, full color, paying advertisements, but they also a have niche readership that is specifically targeted by manufacturers, i.e., music gear in the case of SOS.

Have you noticed that in the past few years most of the major newspapers with an online presence have moved their formerly free "content" behind paywalls? Thankfully SOS seems to be doing well enough that they don't need to be entirely dependent on subscription revenue to survive.

1 minute ago, RSMcGuitar said:

There are some free sound banks in there if you scroll around a bit.

Not for me. Got 'em already, LOL!!! ?

32 minutes ago, Tim Smith said:

I'm not sure how they are managing to do that but hey, that's a decent deal.

There's probably a formula somewhere that sets advertising rates per pair of registered eyeballs, regardless whether they are paid readers or not.

The print subscription rates probably cover the cost of ink, paper, and shipping for the hardcopy version.

32 minutes ago, Tim Smith said:

Looking at Augmented voices and Pigments for this deal. 

For those who use Arturia Efx,  Are they pretty good?  I have a few of their free ones which I notice are now selling for 49.00 half price. The rtube preamp looks interesting. The 76....also looks interesting but I must have like five 76 emulations already. 

Would the crossgrade/upgrade be a better deal if you already owned the program? 

I would go for Pigments if you haven't got that yet. That's a great synth with a fun workflow that can do almost anything!

I've got Augmented Strings, but not sure I have a need for the Voices right now.

I have acquired about 4 of the Arturia FX as freebies, and they are very nice. But for the rest of their FX modules, I've already got so many FX covered elsewhere (such as in MixBox, T-RackS 5 MAX, Eventide, Exponential, Kilohearts, Melda, Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance, Softube, Waves, etc.). I believe I've hit the wall with FX, LOL!!! Time to actually trim down...

6 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I think it may still be free in pdf 

Yep! That's how I've been reading SOS since they began offering the free PDF each month in 2020.

Free Replica Digital Magazine

"We have decided to maintain access to this monthly page-turning edition — FREE — for the foreseeable future."

Start here >>> https://www.soundonsound.com/digital-magazine

https://www.soundonsound.com/

1 minute ago, Fleer said:

Funny, just updated all 33 an hour ago. And then this thread. Like magic. 

Must be that tea you were sipping. ?

Just got the email a few minutes ago...

10 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Upgrades and crossgrades don't seem to be discounted.

Correct. The current deal is for 50% off individual software instruments, FX, and sound banks until August 11th.

Arturia runs deals on upgrades and crossgrades separately at other times of the year.

A quick way to browse & preview the Arturia sound banks is to browse them via the "Store" tab in Analog Lab. The current 50% off price is reflected there.

If you click on a bank, without adding it to the cart, it will  download the preset pack and "unlock" a few presets that you can audition.

2 minutes ago, John Bradley said:

Cool, I was just thinking “there’s not enough icons on my desktop”…

The full VC updates sure do spray a few icons onto your desktop, LOL!

That's why I keep a folder on my desktop called "Instruments". I always sweep new instrument icons into that folder. Out of sight, but one double-click away!

3 minutes ago, cclarry said:

I have Analog Lab V Intro...no the full, but no update

Analog Lab V

V 5.5.1 Improvements:

• Default Midi config has been improved
• Preset switching / loading has been improved
• Updated "Discover similar presets" feature to be more efficient
• Updated velocity curve sensitivity for Piano V3

5 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Must be behind... I showed no updates this morning, and still show no updates

Do you have VC8, Analog Lab V or Pigments? The FX were not updated as far as I can tell.

Release notes are in the ASC. Looks like bug fixes.

I just opened my Arturia Software Center and there are 27 updates available here.

Looks like they are for Analog Lab, Pigments, Augmented Strings, and most of the V Collection 8, excluding the synths that were updated for VC9 (CS-80 V, Piano V, and Prophet V).

That was just an attempt at humor, but I cannot imagine that level of modelling not being computationally expensive.

Page 118 has an interesting DAW workshop article regarding some workarounds to get Studio One to talk General MIDI.

IMO, it still looks like Cakewalk with the aging TTS-1 GM synth (or external synth) is a better option for that!

Gear lust 4-ever!

3 hours ago, John Bradley said:

If they’d have glued on some sort of built-in reverb they’d have ruled the world!

Everyone want to rule the world.

(Their keyboardist owned the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Fairlight CMI, Roland Jupiter 8, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and PPG Wave. So no telling what was used on this track. Classic mid-80's synth pop).

13 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Wait a bit, wear a wig. And jump in the hole. You’ll see me at the left sipping tea. 

Hurry up! Get in!

Updated!

41 minutes ago, Fleer said:

It’s like a DAW-instrument, a magic cauldron. Don’t fall in, Alice. 

Like Ableton Live, but different?

56 minutes ago, kevin H said:

They recently had a $99 sale on this one. No escaping.  I really tried hard and even called my buddy who was zero help and ended up buying it too hahaah.  It’s really good.  MPE support is so good.

I suppose I will be patiently awaiting the next sale. For just.one.more.synth. ?

Plasmonic is from the same developer as NI Absynth.