Arturia Pigments updated to 7.0.0 (Intro Price/free)

[BTP]

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigments/overview

Free update.

V 7.0.0

New Features

• Play View Revamp: Focused on sound visualization, playing the sound and quick editing it
• Rage Filter: Original filter integrating a distortion within its feedback loop achieving unique raw aggressive sounds
• Ripple Filter: Combining successive Allpass filters at the same frequency, it creates intense phase shifts to achieve new timbre, ringing or laser sounds
• Reverb Filter: A reverb that is so short that it mostly induces timbre modification rather than time modification, great for metallic textured sounds
• Corroder Effect: Using audio rate short delay modulation, this effect applies controlled degradation without removing the core of the dry signal

New Content

• 15 User Centric Sound Design Tutorials 
• 150 Factory Presets 
• 50 Wavetables 
• 30 Samples 
• 20 Noises 

Improvements

Audio Improvements

• Sharper Amplitude Envelope for better precision 
• Added FM Input on the Classic Filter 

GUI Improvements

• Light Theme Rework providing better contrast for accessibility requirements 
• Reworked The "Quick Edit Blue" color in Light Theme 
• Improved Modulations visibility in Light Theme 

UX

• CPU improvements - Modulation handling, MultiCore in On by default, Default granular state improvements 
• Quick Edit modulation V3 : displaying the modulation range on the target parameters 
• Audio device selection is now automatically tracking your current OS setting unless you specifically choose a manual device 

Store

• Audio preview for each soundbank 

Bugfixes

• Sequencer Page : Missing Tooltip for the Swing parameter has been restored 
• FX: Visualizer is now correctly updated when Delay and Feedback parameters are modulated (Flanger BL20/Flanger/Chorus/Chorus Jun6) 
• FX: The default loaded preset is now consistent with the Default preset in the preset menu 
• Theme: No more crashes when switching between Dark and Light Interface Themes 
• Display: Fixed the screen offset text when the Macros field is empty 
• Wavetable: The 2D visualizer now displays the correct waveform, even when morphing is off 
• Engine: Modulations now correctly re-trigger the polyphonic Gate 
• Audio: Removed oscillator clicks on the Wavetable on attack phase 
• Audio: Eliminated "zipper" noise on the Harmonic Engine's Output Volume 

 

 

Analog Lab V also updated.

V 5.12.2

New Features

• Pigments 7 compatibility
• Instruments with Quick Edit modulation V3 : displaying the modulation range on the target parameters
• Audio device selection is now automatically tracking your current OS setting unless you specifically choose a manual device
• Audio Preview for each soundbank in the Store

Bugfixes & Improvements

• Generic 9 Knobs controller now working as expected
• Fixed a crash in Logic when undo-redo track insertion with an Astrolab connected
• Refined Onboarding mechanics
• Various visual feedback improvements when using Arturia's controllers

AstroLab

Important:

• Please ensure to first update Analog Lab to this version before updating your AstroLab

Edited Tuesday at 05:42 PM by BTP

[Pat Osterday]

Sweet!  Pigments is my favorite synth.  (Falcon second.)

[Marc Cormier]

Just picked up Pigments - haven’t even used it, but there’s an update.  WUP WUP!

[husker]

Arturia has been so generous with Pigments over the years.   I bought it when it was at version 2, and I received 3,4,5,6 and now 7 at no cost.

Bravo Arturia.

[Fleer]

4 minutes ago, husker said:

Arturia has been so generous with Pigments over the years.   I bought it when it was at version 2, and I received 3,4,5,6 and now 7 at no cost.

Bravo Arturia.

Same here. 

[kitekrazy]

If you update now expect dial up speeds

[Peter Berenford]

I don't like it now. It takes a lot of memory in fl studio. It takes 3 GB when run in fl studio.

[user905133]

3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

If you update now expect dial up speeds

Using the ASC I couldn't even log in.  Then I remembered the "trick"--just download it! 

[Promidi]

2 hours ago, Peter Berenford said:

I don't like it now. It takes a lot of memory in fl studio. It takes 3 GB when run in fl studio.

Something else must be going on there.

Just tried Pigments 7 in Sonar.  It adds 542148 byes to the memory footprint.

[Wookiee]

Server is a overwhelmed at present. 

[Promidi]

Just a quick question. 

Did everyone’s Pigments 7 VST3 and DLL file get copied the their respective VST folders correctly?

Mine didn’t, and I had to copy mine respective files manually from the Arturia resource folder.

No biggie - just wondering if it happened here only.....

[Promidi]

5 minutes ago, Wookiee said:

Server is a overwhelmed at present. 

Seems to be the Arturia way when things like this get released.

[user905133]

2 hours ago, Peter Berenford said:

I don't like it now. It takes a lot of memory in fl studio. It takes 3 GB when run in fl studio.

Yeah--something is going on--went to do the what's new tutorial and there's either an animated background or a video built-in.  With sonar at 5-10%, it seems like the tutorial animation / video makes Pigments come to a crawl. Can't even change anything.

Could be trying to call home to validate my license and the ASC server is overloaded.

Or it could be the "Redesigned Play View" which has either the video or the animated image.  

UPDATE: After 15-20 min. of Pigments 7 running at a snail's pace, I killed Sonar via Task Manager. I did have MIDI and sound (usb keyboard > Sonar > Pig 7), but nothing else other than the Tutorial's new "Play View" (background animation?) and data changing in the Task Manager did anything. 

UPDATE 2: Tried Voltage Modular, Exact same issues--over 2 GB of memory consumed; almost everything else was at a snail's pace; had sound, mouse moved, nothing would respond, tutorial amination /video. This time I only waited about 30-40 seconds before killing the Pig turned Hog in Task Manager.

Edited Tuesday at 10:57 PM by user905133
added an update

[user905133]

38 minutes ago, Promidi said:

Did everyone’s Pigments 7 VST3 and DLL file get copied the their respective VST folders correctly?

I assume they did because after booting Sonar, 2 new plug-ins were detected and Pigments 7 started.

UPDATE: Voltage Modular's Plugin Host  requires users to manually navigate to the DLL or VST3.  So I did and they were in the respective folders I use.

Edited Tuesday at 11:00 PM by user905133
added an update

[kitekrazy]

2 hours ago, Promidi said:

Just a quick question. 

Did everyone’s Pigments 7 VST3 and DLL file get copied the their respective VST folders correctly?

Mine didn’t, and I had to copy mine respective files manually from the Arturia resource folder.

No biggie - just wondering if it happened here only.....

Problem with the installer.  Exe. shows 7,  Plugin does work in Reaper.

Analog Lab is broken too.

Uninstall and download again is the fix.

[Promidi]

7 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Uninstall and download again is the fix.

Yeah, I was going to do that, but I thought copying the files manually would be easier (which it was).  

I'm so lazy.....

[Carl Ewing]

19 hours ago, Pat Osterday said:

Sweet!  Pigments is my favorite synth.  (Falcon second.)

Weird - these are my least favorite, and i think worst sounding flagships on the market. I'm actually not sure how Arturia makes the filters in Pigments sound so terrible, considering they make some of my favorite software filters (eg. Filter MS-20)...although still waaay behind Cymatic, Audiority, U-He, Spectrasonics and now Synapse with The Legend HZ.

I would argue Pigments is the worst sounding soft synth around. The only time I ever reach for Pigments is when I actually need something fairly cold and lifeless. Not even exagerating - that's my go to for really digital sounding, lifeless synths - which is sometimes needed. I honestly don't get the praise, when there are far better alternatives around in every other respect. Perhaps people like the presets, which would also be strange considering the best sound / patch designers in the world work on Omnisphere and U-He synths (Howard Scarr, Kevin Schroeder, Eric Persing, The Unfinished, etc.).

I was just thinking that Drive score was made using Omnisphere, and the Dark Knight Trilogy (gorgeous synth parts) were made using Zebra2...and yet in 2025, Pigments still can't even compete with the synths in these iconic scores, which were like 15+ years ago now.

Edited 15 hours ago by Carl Ewing

[Pat Osterday]

19 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

Weird - these are my least favorite, and i think worst sounding flagships on the market. I'm actually not sure how Arturia makes the filters in Pigments sound so terrible, considering they make some of my favorite software filters (eg. Filter MS-20)...although still waaay behind Cymatic, Audiority, U-He, Spectrasonics and now Synapse with The Legend HZ.

I would argue Pigments is the worst sounding soft synth around. The only time I ever reach for Pigments is when I actually need something fairly cold and lifeless. Not even exagerating - that's my go to for really digital sounding, lifeless synths - which is sometimes needed. I honestly don't get the praise, when there are far better alternatives around in every other respect. Perhaps people like the presets, which would also be strange considering the best sound / patch designers in the world work on Omnisphere and U-He synths (Howard Scarr, Kevin Schroeder, Eric Persing, The Unfinished, etc.).

I was just thinking that Drive score was made using Omnisphere, and the Dark Knight Trilogy (gorgeous synth parts) were made using Zebra2...and yet in 2025, Pigments still can't even compete with the synths in these iconic scores, which were like 15+ years ago now.

To each his own! I demoed Zebra and didn't like it.  I do like to make soundtrack type tracks, but also work in other genres too.  Pigments works for me. 👍

[kitekrazy]

they all work for me as long as there's presets and I don't have time of knowledge to make my own

[kitekrazy]

I know are giddy when there is an Arturia update but it seems it's better to wait a day or two.

I had to uninstall and install again on 2 machines.