The Wavetable Engine PART 4 | Arturia Pigments 3.5 Tutorial

[@newz-tube]

Thanks for opening my ears even more to wavetables. Here's the thing that stumps me. Why and how should I get excited about this outside of making so called "cool" sounds. Composers are still working with the traditional sounds (guitar, piano, organ, brass, etc.) and producing great music with culturally accepted emotional responses to analog sound sources. I'd be very interested in seeing how to use Pigments, Hive 2, etc. to create a piece of music, enhance the emotional response to the music using a certain wavetable or sound set within the context of a finished piece of music. That would be awesome. Few KZbinrs seem to address these musical topics. Nevertheless - I think your tutorials are awesome.

[@jonaudio]

you're very welcome!! You bring up a very good question. I'd say that wavetables can be useful in this context but they should match the vibe of the piece of music. For example, you could use a more mellow wavetable and make a very rich an evolving pad out of that to kind of act as a glue to the track. You could also turn samples of real world instruments into wavetables and use those. Its been very popular like you mentioned of using wavetables for those 'cool' sounds or crazy dubstep stuff, and wavetables work well for that, but thats not their only strong point. If you have an interesting wavetable, using an LFO to slowly move through it can make sounds a little more interesting as well.

[@wiseoldfool]

I find the visual representations in this synth to be a very powerful design tool.

[@jonaudio]

100% the visual feedback in pigments is really amazing. They did such a great job with the UI. Being able to see where all the modulations are is extremely helpful!

[@AngieRomeo27]

great video!

[@jonaudio]

Thanks!! 🤙🤙

[@matthewwilson3673]

nice overview, both massive x and pigments are half off right now, pigments seems like its more for me, at least a better fit than zenology pro with roland

[@jonaudio]

It's definitely the right time to buy pigments. It's such a great synth. I really hope it catches on more because top to bottom it is an excellent piece of software and it should get the recognition it deserves. The course is still on going, I'm aiming to leave no stone unturned. It will take a while, but overall worth it.

[@matthewwilson3673]

@@jonaudio Yea I think the series is great, I am hoping to dive into wavetable synthesis as the wavetable feature on my tracker was fun, obviously a lot of wavetable vst out there but I am gravitating towards pigments. If only they had a cool controller like the maschine for all the Ni software