Pigments is a fantastic-looking synth – in the main. Okay, here’s the crux of this review right up front. Those Arturia developers have clearly been busy. And in doing so, it ticks the ‘something to stand out’ box with some aplomb. It’s one of the most enticing synthesisers ever released and makes seeing – as well as hearing – what you are doing almost child’s play. Well, you’ll have no way to hide your guilt should you ever buy Pigments. They seem like impenetrable monsters that hide their innards behind endless tabs and menus. Sometimes, these soft synths are exceptionally hard to get to know. Just look at all those dandies to choose from – and I know so few of them all that well.Īnd it is easy to blame yourself, you lazy good-for-nothing so and so… However, it’s not all our fault. If you’re finding your self in the same position and doing the same thing, then you, like me, are probably looking at your plug-in list with crushing guilt.
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I’m not, even more annoyingly, following my own advice – which is to learn how to use one synthesiser really well and rely on it to create just about any sound you need. The result of this surfeit of soft-synth options at my fingertips is that I’m not diving in to any of the ones I have beyond a superficial level I’m using them merely as instruments rather than synthesisers. The ‘problem’ though – and this is such a first-world one that I’m almost tempted not to write it – is that they are so good, so relatively inexpensive to add to your collection and in many cases, so innovative – that I’ve simply got too many. However, the fact that these developers have to work so hard has resulted in some cracking releases for all of us. There’s so much competition from the modular scene – from more ‘standard’ hardware keyboard synths and modules, from freeware and from the synths already bundled with your DAWs – that software-synth developers simply have to put the effort in, or else their wares will be lost, rather like tears in the rain.