Pigments 5 | FREE UPDATE & New Features!

[@dr.gregoryf.maassen2637]

I recently completed this fantastic online course (yes, I went through all episodes over one week during my holiday), and it exceeded expectations. The course was exceptionally well-developed, with each lesson carefully structured to build upon the previous one. The pace was perfect-neither too fast nor too slow-allowing me to absorb the intricate details of this powerful VST without feeling overwhelmed. One of the standout aspects of the course was how it demystified the complexities of Pigments, making it approachable even for those, like me, who are initially intimidated by its vast array of features. By the course's end, I became remarkably familiar with Pigments. This course also made me appreciate how user-friendly Pigments 5 is compared to other VSTs, especially the modulation with dragging and dropping connections. After this course, I also feel more comfortable using hardware like the Waldorf Iridium, which requires more menu diving. So, thank you to Jon Audio for investing an incredible amount of time designing and recording this course. I hope Arturia is paying attention to your talent, which is at par with or exceeds that of Venus Theory.

[@jonaudio]

thank you so much for your feedback, it truly made my day reading your comment! Thats awesome to hear youre getting a good grip on pigments, its a really great synthesizer!!

[@johnsuggs7828]

The guy in this video is a really good teacher. Easy to learn. Straight forward. Instant results. You should make full on deep dive tutorials. Really good at this.

[@jonaudio]

Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏

[@Skiddoo42]

Fantastic they took our suggestion to change presets inside the sequencer menu without resetting sequences! Much appreciated!!

[@jonaudio]

The sequencer is much better now!

[@anthonymalone2085]

Thanks Jon for your video. It is the best tutorial on Pigments 5. Thanks from the UK.

[@jonaudio]

That's so awesome to hear!! You're very welcome 🤙🤙

[@ryan.noakes]

YESSSSS! Updating now. Gotta say, when you started routing Pigments through Pigments I legit started saying out loud "Yo, I heard you like Pigments..." and then you did it and OMG did I laugh. Royally pissed off my cat, have a few new scratches on my legs, but totally worth it.

[@jonaudio]

hahaa hell yeah!! I heard you like pigments LOL

[@bblas5199]

Arturia rocks 😎 Always innovating, attracting new users while rewarding existing users. Great review video 👍

[@jonaudio]

Yeah man Arturia is amazing! And you're very welcome!! 🤙🤙

[@GertBoers]

I recently bought Pigments, but hadn't given it much time yet, due to (where we probably all suffer from) lack of time. This was a very clearly laid out overview and easy to follow. Love the pace: not to slow, not to fast. Just perfect. You've got another subscriber to your channel.

[@jonaudio]

That's so awesome to hear!! I'm super grateful to have you!! 🤙🤙

[@jeygraf7218]

Another super great video of you Jon, Thx a lot!!

[@jonaudio]

Thank you!! And you're very welcome!!

[@Jay-sl9jo]

I've wanted the Pigments FX and Sequencer as standalones for so long, having the audio routing option is a nice workaround that I will happily take! And the Sequencer lock and post FX send has been much needed as well! What a great update.

[@jonaudio]

now that would be really cool to have!! yeah man the post FX is a huuuuuge upgrade!!

[@vectorson]

I had exactly the same feeling as you now when FL Studio 21 was released. It is very exciting.

[@jonaudio]

It's like a breath of new life ya know? Haha

[@cobraofearth]

YES! Those sequencer changes are very thoughtful. Thanks for the rundown

[@jonaudio]

You're very welcome!

[@NigelMerrick]

YAY!! Pigments is my all time favorite synth, ever since V1. I hit the like button on this video while the pre-roll ad was still running LoL

[@jonaudio]

hell yeah! thanks man!! pigments is truly amazing! Arturia struck gold with this one

[@NigelMerrick]

@@jonaudio They sure did, and the fact that these updates are always free is amazing!

[@daver1975]

The option for routing in any audio is really cool. Can't wait to try that! Cheers for the simple and to the point video.

[@jonaudio]

absolutely!! you're very welcome!!

[@Italliving]

wooow the sequencer scaling, niceness

[@jonaudio]

Hell yeah!!

[@pacificnoise]

Awesome, woke up to a very nice surprise with pigments 5. Let's get creating those patches.. Thanks Jon superior run down of the new updates.

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!! today is a great day haha!

[@mushroomsounds]

Grateful that I got it in version 2. Since I've crafted 2 soundbanks (trap and psytrance) and it's just a sonic and workflow joy

[@jonaudio]

100% agree! The workflow is top notch. It's really makes it such a fun experience. The UI never gets in the way of sound design.

[@mushroomsounds]

@@jonaudio 100% and they always add the features we want. Spoiled :)

[@SnowGod]

This is always the first spot I check when I see new updates lol great video bro

[@jonaudio]

thats awesome to hear!! thank you very much!!

[@thomasnikzakrzewski4477]

Great update overview, Jon. Love this synth. It was the first synth I bought when beginning my post-retirement music exploration, and I have enjoyed its (free) evolution since then. Also loving VPS Avenger (thanks for that deep dive series, BTW).

[@jonaudio]

That's awesome to hear!! Youre very welcome for the avenger course!! There are many more parts to come and we really dive into the synth. It's very powerful!

[@JamesLloydKeyboardist]

I’ve seen a few people mention this, I can also see how pigments would be fun on my touchscreen. 🎹♥️

[@jonaudio]

pigments on a touchscreen would be an interesting experience!

[@jcchaconjr]

As an existing Arturia customer (but not yet a Pigments user), I received a great launch offer for the Plugin and the Explorations Bundle via their email marketing. I couldn't pass up the deal, so I'm looking forward to playing around with it!

[@jonaudio]

That's so awesome! You're gonna have an amazing time with pigments. The workflow is very nice!

[@mark35mi]

Great share. Great update. Arturia and pigments rocks!!!

[@jonaudio]

Pigments is such an awesome synth. I'm digging the new update!

[@itinerantghost]

Really cool update. Downloading now!

[@jonaudio]

Hell yeah!!

[@dcal0216]

Hey Jon, I always love your content!!!

[@jonaudio]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

[@jumpstar9000]

Oh wow, how exciting! It really looks great. The sequencer updates especially. What a nice update. Can't wait to try it. Thanks for the great video Jon.

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!! the UI updates are really nice too. it looks so clean

[@jumpstar9000]

@@jonaudio Oh no! Looks like so many people are updating the Arturia website has crashed.

[@cobraofearth]

Commenting again, because I got to the audio routing part. Love this idea, can now use pigments as an fx rack! What would take it to the next level for me would be if you could keytrack the incoming audio just like you can with a sample

[@jonaudio]

That would be amazing if they added a key tracking knob there!

[@johnsuggs7828]

Subscribed. Great teacher. Makes it fun.

[@jonaudio]

Glad to have you!!

[@alphaxazul]

Thanks Jon! The "audio in" feature has been on my Pigments wish list for quite a while; but I was certain Arturia would charge for it. Kudos to them for the free upgrade with this awesome feature! If you or anyone else knows how to get this feature working in Reaper, please let me know. In Pigments I see the meter is showing audio in, but there is no audio in Reaper. I'm pretty new to Reaper, and the routing is still a bit of a mystery to me. Thanks in advance!

[@jonaudio]

If you see the audio coming into pigments you also have to send midi to pigments to open pigments Amp envelope to hear the sound. Let me know if that works for you

[@alphaxazul]

@@jonaudio Thanks! I'm sure you're right. Now I need to figure out how to do that...

[@davidpereira4455]

Nice! Can it finally set the phase position for the harmonic engine as well?!

[@jonaudio]

Not that I'm aware of 🤔

[@marsooh302]

What a blast ! Thanks for the review and thanks to Arturia

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!! It's always an amazing day when pigments gets updated!

[@channel_thirteen_2.0]

Very cool! Been a Pigments fan for a while and great to see these updates. Happy they are doing more with the sequencer, as I've always thought it could be much better. Don't stop there! 💞

[@jonaudio]

With each update they improve the synth so much!! I hope one day they add direct outs for both engines

[@channel_thirteen_2.0]

That would be awesome! @@jonaudio

[@GravytyMusic]

Tried current? If so which one you like better for wild sounds? Debating buying pigments or current.

[@channel_thirteen_2.0]

I have not tried Current. I bought Pigments when it was on sale, seems to happen about twice a year. No regrets. @@GravytyMusic

[@TerenceKearns]

Nice coverage of this. Very informative.

[@humball]

Great overview Jon , I wasn't aware of this update so thanks 👍

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!! lots of new stuff to explore!!

[@frederikclement7795]

Great overview! Thanks!

[@jonaudio]

thank you!! and you're very welcome!!!

[@buckycore]

One more: it sounds like they've upgrade the sound engine. When you were scrolling through those new wavetables, they sounded way more intense and huge. so did the disrorted Sinewave even before the Post FX Plus that audio routing is so DOPE! I'll finally be able to add vocal samples with out needing to make it be all gross chopped/sampled sounding

[@jonaudio]

the new wavetables are awesome! I think it's gonna be a pigments sound design week this week!

[@buckycore]

Yeah, do it! This might make me very well fall back in love with Pigments again. It was the first softsynth I actually bought deliberately vs. Using ones collections in like Komplete. I had no clue what any of those guys were at the time. So Pigments is my origin story.

[@buckycore]

Dude these new presets are godly! And yeah, I am truly convinced the upgraded the sound engine. I can hear and FEEL the subass patches now. This was never the case on my 3.5" speakers with Pigments before@@jonaudio

[@Tyrannocaster]

Because who doesn't want more presets!

[@jonaudio]

You can never have enough haha

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Presets! We don't need no stinkin' Presets!😜🎶🎶🎹🎹🎶🎶Play On

[@ryan.noakes]

Depeche Mode has a song about the quantity of presets... 😜 (𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐼'𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝐼 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ)

[@bci3937]

Well explained looks awesome now...wow....

[@jonaudio]

That's awesome to hear!!

[@Skyverb]

The audio in from another track is all I ever wanted with pigments =D

[@jonaudio]

It's a pretty cool addition, totally took me by surprise!

[@stevenbrenner6515]

Thanks for the instructional video ! Pigments RULES .

[@jonaudio]

100% agree!! You're very welcome!! 🤙🤙

[@DEADLINETV]

Great new update! Thanks for the rundown!

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!!

[@morgan8937]

Thank you for your Pigments content. Forgive me for the noob Q: One thing I don't seem to have much variety of in preset form is "plucks". I never found where I can source them. I suppose I'm thinking of melodic percussive plucks, organ plucks, tropical sounding ones. Like kygo, charlie puth use, or that you hear in many pop songs in the charts. Might you consider a future video showing how you can make your own variety of different plucks using Pigments? Either way, ty for all the Pigments content. Loads to get on with really! 👍

[@jonaudio]

You're very welcome! And yeah that would be some fun patchrs to make. A great starting point for plucks is using a square wave and adjust the pulse width to taste, or even modulate it a bit. Drop the cutoff pretty low with a low pass filter and use a fast envelope to modulate it. From there, you can experiment with different wave forms, expand to wavetables and so on.

[@morgan8937]

@jonaudio Thanks so much, that's super helpful to me- looking forward to giving it a go! 👌

[@buckycore]

I love the new sequencer. The randomize feature feels totally like Audiomodern Riffer

[@jonaudio]

And we can save sequencer presets, thats a huge one!

[@buckycore]

Exactly!!

[@va941]

Commented, liked, already subscribed, this is sweet❤

[@jonaudio]

hell yeah!!

[@SaltSpirits]

You’re telling me I can plug my guitar STRAIGHT INTO PIGMENTS? Fucking awesome. I don’t even know what I’ll do with it, but god damn if I won’t spend hours fucking around until i find something.

[@jonaudio]

pigments is life!

[@TheJackJulian]

Audio in is great!

[@jonaudio]

absolutely!! Having so much fun with it!

[@mudi2000a]

Wow Jon you are really fast ❤

[@jonaudio]

I loooooove pigments!

[@davewalker5387]

n00b question - what daw is shown in the video? Pigments 5 looks awesome.

[@davewalker5387]

found out it's Bitwig for anyone interested

[@jonaudio]

Yep that's right it's bitwig! It's a really cool daw. I'm very close to making the switch to bitwig entirely 🤙🤙

[@trollingisasport]

Oh, nice. Love the sequencer changes. Always scared to upgrade when I have projects with the older version.

[@jonaudio]

I know that feeling all too well. I haven't noticed any compatibility issues so far. I went through a lot of patches I made with 4 and they all seem to work just fine

[@trollingisasport]

Ok good. Because I just set up some patches to taste in one of my projects earlier today lol@@jonaudio

[@MikeUIibarri]

Excellent.

[@GrvMUSIC4U]

This looks great

[@jonaudio]

Hell yeah!! 🤙🤙

[@leftfeelsright1968]

So this is the reason why my arturia software center was crashing when I was trying to download a update for analog lab..lol.. Arturia was planning for the big upgrade and that even for free.. Meanwhile loving your tutorials for vps avengers on vengeance sounds YT channel..

[@jonaudio]

ah gotcha. That's awesome you're enjoying the avenger tutorials!! there are lots of more parts to come! Its a great synth!

[@theunconciousmind7314]

Its an amazing plugin with great quality. I dont know but it seems to me vital does everything just better. The sequencer in vital is also very easy and fast to use, but its just more acurate, with the curves and everything, but not just that its also faster to use. In vital i bet i get much better results in less time. Arturia is amazing and im just starting to learn it and the quality is so good, but some things are a little bit "slow" or just not as handy as they could be like in vital or serum. Vital is still my fav if all by far. But its nice to see some new features i never thought about like the lock sequence is pretty cool. 😄 and the quality is so diffrent. It really has something special. The fm is really smooth aswell. Defenity a unique synth.

[@nuttob]

I don't see an update yet. I just logged into my Arturia software center and it's not there...

[@jonaudio]

It should be any moment id imagine

[@nuttob]

@@jonaudio Yeah, I see it on the website so I am sure it will be just a matter of waiting a bit. Thanks.

[@jonaudio]

Hopefully it shouldn't be long until you see it on your end. You're very welcome 🤙🤙

[@nuttob]

@@jonaudio Downloaded and installed...🙂

[@c-cruz7836]

Hey Jon what are your thoughts on pigment 5 and vps avenger 2 are the sequencer the same which is better

[@jonaudio]

Great question! While I like both sequencers, the sequencer in avenger has a few more features than the pigments sequencer. Both are very capable in cranking out rockin sequences though. With the new pigments update, the sequencer is much better than it was. We now can load and save sequencer presets, lock the sequence, drop down scale presets. I use both synths pretty often, they both are top notch 🤙🤙

[@johnsuggs7828]

@@jonaudio For the cost, the Avenger just isn't the best option. Of course it's a matter of personal preference. That 250 for the base program and then the expansions are 30-75 each, not worth it. Bundles. Think Bundles. Always try and get as much for your investment that works for you

[@jean-marcsuter1715]

working now on the ASC

[@jonaudio]

That's great news!!

[@HomerNarr]

Can the pigments sequencer do ratcheting?

[@jonaudio]

Unfortunately it doesn't have ratcheting, it would be really cool if it did though. Maybe that's something they will add in a future update? In those situations where I'd need ratcheting I'd use a sequencer like stepic to get the exact sequence I'm going for.

[@HomerNarr]

@@jonaudio Ahh, did not find anything, so i am not blind. But that's ok, i actually have stepic already. 😀

[@peterw5407]

Just the sequencer alone beats the crap out of FL Studio

[@jonaudio]

They did a really good job on the sequencer rework

[@akira20ish]

What I don’t like is I can’t use scroll wheel to adjust controls

[@jonaudio]

Yeah I agree with you there. After you get used to the scroll wheel on other synths, its such a nice workflow and super fast

[@akira20ish]

@@jonaudio I have Carpal tunnel and it makes things worse if I have to hold down a mouse

[@jonaudio]

Totally get that. I hope one day they will add that functionality. That would be a huge quality of life update

[@Chalisque]

I'm wondering whether to get the preset pack. It's a clever way to do an upgrade fee: people who buy 5 get the presets, those who don't want to buy the presets get the update for free, but for a little more at intro time, you get the upgrade and the presets. I do wish Arturia would support Linux. You can get a fare more lean and mean system without all the bloat that comes with Windows. (I'm forced to use it while my machine's Windows SSD gets a warranty replacement, though actually I do love how uncluttered and configurable it is -- for now I have U-He and Tracktion synths to play with.)

[@jonaudio]

That would be really cool if they support Linux. I've always wanted to switch to Linux but haven't for reasons like that

[@Lol_Pig]

Ive been having an issue with Arturia products, specifically Pigments and Acid V - I tweak a sound to my liking, hit record, playback. Simple enough, but the playback sounds like it was recorded with a ring mod, or some unexpected sfx. Not sure how to fix this issue.

[@jonaudio]

Hmm that's really odd. I've never experienced that before. And that's only happening to those 2 synths?

[@the_cursor]

And _still_ no ability to lock the master volume because Arturia thinks we like getting blasted out of our chairs whenever we change presets. Ugh. 😒

[@jonaudio]

I'd like to have that feature!!

[@m.t-thoughts8919]

Oh, shit we made Jon try Bit Wig

[@jonaudio]

bitwig is soooooo good. I've fallen in love with it

[@akira20ish]

I have serum do I really need this

[@jonaudio]

It's up to you but I personally prefer pigments to serum by a long shot. In pigments you have up to 9 Fx slots, you can add multiple instances of the same effect. You have 2 main filters, granular synthesis. If you use both engines and the utility engine you have 9 Oscillators. At the end of the day it's really personal preference though.

[@robmlisanti]

Very confused my acct says it's $99.00? and I dont see an update on the software center as of now

[@jonaudio]

Very odd it should be any moment id imagine

[@robmlisanti]

Ok just got the DL @@jonaudio

[@robmlisanti]

Yes this is fantastic! BTW Im making a patch out of that One you started!! haha! , also will you be doing any videos pertaining to Bitwig? I'm trying to understand certain subjects which I havent ever used before for example "Sidechaining". i heard of it but really dont know the very basics of it and pre and post on effects especially for the ambient music I do@@jonaudio

[@boybleach5873]

Where do you get the update?

[@jonaudio]

you should be able to find the update to be installed in the arturia software center

[@sylvainconsult969]

😊❤❤❤🎉

[@paradoxic1888]

Nice improvements but still not enough reason to switch from my workhorse VST.

[@jonaudio]

Which one is your workhorse?

[@akira20ish]

And yet for us peasants we have Surge XT

[@robmlisanti]

Surge is great too

[@jonaudio]

Surge xt is great!!

[@HighlandStudio91]

Initially...when I tried Pigments a couple of years ago, I found a lot of the presets disappointing(i.e., too many noisy presets with bleeps, bloops & various fart sounds.) Pigments 5 however...is very impressive and at 50% off, I couldn't resist(as I think Pigments is the best value overall.) The free Analog Lab Play is utterly awesome....but to have the full bundle for $600...is a rip off.

[@jonaudio]

Pigments has gotten some really good updates over the years. Do you mean the V collection? I'd wait until black Friday for a sale, and now since you got pigments it will be even cheaper. It's all about timing it right

[@HighlandStudio91]

@@jonaudio If the price is right, I may pick up the V Collection one day(but at $599...there are much better options, such as UVI's Falcon 3, which is only $349.)

[@SolairNova]

Sad news : this version 5 is not compatible with Mac OS10. From MacOs 11 only. :((

[@jonaudio]

Oh man... I didn't know about that. Seems really odd 🤔

[@mudi2000a]

Why would you want to run a more than 4 year old unsupported OS?

[@robmlisanti]

Time to update

[@SolairNova]

@@jonaudio Finally the update works on this system, this was written differently on the website though.

[@jonaudio]

Ah gotcha! Glad its working for you 🤙🤙

[@jeanpepin5869]

It's free because it's late and it's not a revolutionary upgrade. Blender look very very free and very very upgraded in comparaison. ;) PS : Republican philosophy is a savage philosophy.

[@jonaudio]

Blender is amazing software

[@bakedcreations8985]

Audio input doesn't seem to work with FL Studio, can you check it out please?

[@jonaudio]

A very brilliant guy named raven in my discord was able to figure it out the other day. I'm sure he'd be glad to walk you thru the process