What's new in Pigments 5.0.1.4491
Jan 24, 2024
- New Features - Audio Engine:
- New multicore CPU optimization
- New generative sequencer featuring one-click sequence generation
- New Sequencer sequence browser & saveable presets
- New Sequencer playback modes
- Various Sequencer UX improvements
- New Utility Engine Audio Input mode
- New auxiliary effect bus routing
- New Wavetable Engine phase parameter
- New Features - GUI / Workflow:
- New Play view visualiser
- Various visualisers improvements
- Sequencer interface and workflow redesign
- Keyboard, Pitch and Mod wheels redesign
- Various UX improvements
- Pop-up windows redesign
- New Content:
- New Factory Library & Expansions banks
- New Factory wavetables
- New Factory samples
- New Sequencer patterns
- New Sequencer classic and generative scales
- Bug fixes:
- Various bugfixes
New in Pigments 4.1.1.3513 (Jan 5, 2024)
- New features:
- New light theme
- Multiple look and style improvements
- Startup preset can now be customized from the hamburger menu
- User preset banks picture can now be customized
- Keylab Essential 3 Integration
- Support of Mac OS Sonoma
- Improvements:
- Tags are now displayed alphabetically by columns
- Augmented do not process bypassed engines anymore
- Bugfixes:
- No more recall issues when recalling projects
- All Augmented instruments have resizable corners
- No more GUI issues with last selected preset after closing
- Amp on Pedal board, no longer enabled when set to None
- Liked presets can now be selected when no color favorites are displayed
- No more issues with MIDI channels on Studio One
- MiniLab screen now has feedback on all instruments
- No more default presets when recalling old sessions
- No more issues when recalling VST3 automated parameters in Ableton Live
- Audio Input now work as expected in ARP 2600
- No more ghost folders when installing CS-80V4
- No more display issues with envelopes in the Synclavier V
New in Pigments 4.1.0.342 (Mar 10, 2023)
- New features and improvements:
- Window can now be resized by dragging the bottom right corner
- Added audio protection on plugin output (Limiter at +12dB)
- AAX is now compatible with Mac M1
- NKS is now compatible with Mac M1 and VST3
- Graphic performance improvements
- Store can now be browsed by Music Genres
New in Pigments 4.0.3.3000 (Feb 1, 2023)
- Improvements:
- GUI: Performances improvements
- GUI: Minor UX/UI improvements
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed stuck notes when using a sustain pedal in Legato mode
- Fixed playlist import issue
New in Pigments 4.0.2.2983 (Jan 14, 2023)
- Improvements:
- Pigments 4 is now NKS compatible
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue causing the text-to-speech to read messages while disabled
New in Pigments 4.0.1.2880 (Jan 6, 2023)
- New features:
- Included visually impaired accessibility across all V Collection instruments
- New sound design tutorials for selected V Collection 9 instruments
- MiniLab 3 compatibility with all V Collection instruments
- Improvements:
- Improvements to playlists and preset browser
- Bug fixes:
- No more tag issues after updates
- Improved loading times for our sampled instruments
- Correct presets appear in the playlist after reload
- No more browsing issues in NKS software after changing preset from Arturia's preset browser
- All instrument now recall their previous UI size
- Added polyphony voice count to the bottom toolbar on selected instruments
New in Pigments 3.7.1.2684 (Sep 9, 2022)
- Bug fixes:
- No more crashes with the tagging system in the preset browser
- No more issues with the functions trigger modes
- No more issues with the browser sort feature
- No more issues with the Macro knob modulation amount
- Sound engine waveforms don't cover banks in sound store anymore
- No more issues with the pitch quantization
New in Pigments 3.7.0.2587 (Jun 8, 2022)
- New features:
- New preset tagging system (right click to open tag menu)
- New Preset browser, toolbars and menus design
- New sound bank view
- New instruments icons
- Improvements:
- Project opening time improvements
- Preset loading time improvements
- Preset store performance improvements
- Enhanced preset drag & drop to playlists
- Moved user preset category in Explore
- Playlist menu improvements
- Playlists can now be edited simultaneously on plugin instances
- Preset info menu improvements
- Improved home page pop-up behavior
- Edits made in playlists are now automatically saved
- Added multiple preset selection count
- Bug fixes:
- MPE no longer conflicts with standard pitch bend messages
- No more freezes when displaying two instances of the same instrument with AMD GPU
- No more missing presets when importing large banks
- Playlists can now be selected with program changes messages (MSB)
- No more pop-up display issues
- Installers no longer proposes Rosetta install on non-Rosetta systems
- No more missing presets when using several Analog Lab instances
New in Pigments 3.5.0.1831 (Dec 14, 2021)
- New Features:
- Engine Cross modulation: Engine 1 and 2 can now modulate each other
- Filter Engine modulation: Engine 1 and 2 can now modulate the filters
- New Distortion module with 13 additional algorithms
- New Comb Filter featuring 3 new modes (LP6, BP6, HP6)
- Samples can now be previewed directly in the Sample Browser
- Sample Browser now support custom folders and subfolder browsing
- Parametric EQ bands can now be modulated
- Pigments 3.5 Factory Library (150 new presets)
- Pigments 3.5 Wavetables (59 new wavetables)
- Improvements:
- Various UI and UX improvements
- Improved Analog Engine layout
- Improved FX bus gain management
- New defaults values for the Comb Filter parameters
- Parameters name and description improvements
- Bugfixes:
- Various GUI fixes
- Noise Waveforms are now correctly shown in the Utility Engine
- 4/1 and 8/1 delay times are now correct
New in Pigments 3.2.0.1783 (Nov 25, 2021)
- New features:
- Added a condensed list view to the browser to view the preset list and filters at the same time
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed UI issues in FL studio
- No more issues when opening V Collection stand-alone from 'Macs recent items'
- Updated Synclavier and Emulator Timers
- All V Collection works on Big Sur
- Imported and old playlists loading times have been vastly improved
- No More issues when using Luna running Big Sur with V Collection and FX collection instruments/effects
- Standalones are now all working with ASIO4ALL & Realtek ASIO
New in Pigments 3.1.0.1552 (Jul 13, 2021)
- New features:
- Macro workflow improvement, indlucing a new look, Learn button & easier mapping format
- MIDI workflow improvements, including Learn on/off and access to more detailed MIDI parameters
- All tutorials in V Collection 8 instrument have now been updated in our new format
- All instruments in V Collection 8 are now NKS compatible
- New 128 preset sound bank for VC8.1 exploring new sound territories
- Bug fixes:
- Allowed access to the three tuning options "Relative", "Absolute", "Hertz" in the modulator during the tutorial
- Sustain pedal action now works in low buffer sizes
- Allow saving a preset with space after the word
- Controller template namings are now consistent across all VC instruments
- Preset comments now remain, when presets are added to a playlist
New in Pigments 3.0.0.1375 (Apr 21, 2021)
- New features:
- New Engines:
- Harmonic Engine
- Utility Engine
- Filters:
- New Jup-8 Low-Pass Filter
- Improved frequency modulation range on filters
- Improved filters initialization
- New Effects:
- BL-20 Flanger
- Jun-6 Chorus
- Multiband
- Pitch-Shift Delay
- New content:
- 200 New presets
- 84 New wavetables
- 97 New samples
- 71 New noise samples
- New effects presets
- New tutorials
- User interface improvements:
- New GUI
- Improved organization of effects selection
- Optimized user workflow
- New default setting
- Changed default tuning behavior to lock when changing engine type
- Added on/off to Unison for Analog and Wavetable engines
- New copy/paste effects settings
- Improved MPE performance
- Improved the interaction to edit modulators
- Updated features:
- Enhanced filter and effects routing
- Improved envelopes performance
- Added new filter routing options, to allow more possibilities for splitting individual filter outputs to insert effects A & B
- Added sample engine snap to zero crossing points
- Added sample playback recall to parameters in the edit tab
- Added Mono bass and Natural modes to the stereo pan effect
- Added new fine tuning mode "Offset" to oscillators 2 and 3 in the analog engine
- Added the option to import custom samples in AIFF
- Added Release button to activate or deactivate sample in release mode
- Added Scale control to invert the functions polarity
- Bug fixes:
- When MPE is enabled, Macro 1 is now disabled
- No more window resizing issue when using the preset browser
- No more errors on filters and envelopes when using automations with Logic pro in Big Sur
- Sample and hold rise and fall values are now working perfectly when trigger is set to Poly KBD
- No more display bugs on Macros in the preset browser when resizing the window
- Wavefolding modulation now works perfectly when deactivating unison chord
- Fixed an issue that was causing the sidechain amounts to 50 on other modulation sources
New in Pigments 2.2.1.1263 (Jan 29, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- No more issues with playlists
- Tutorials are now properly working
- Checkout now properly works in the Sound Store
- No more font issues on case-sensitive operating systems
- VST3 MIDI learn now properly maps to CC in Live (Windows)
- VST toolbar is now properly displayed in Reason 10 instruments
- No more conflicts between the side panel and the resize function
- Improvements:
- Type icons size have been reduced to avoid scrolling when browsing presets
New in Pigments 2.1.2.3854 (Jul 30, 2020)
- Bug fixes:
- First notes are no longer missed when starting the DAW playback
- No more CPU overload when opening Cubase projects
- Program changes are no longer crashing Live when rendering audio
- Opening a standalone no longer resets the sample rate to 44,1Khz
- Preset name is now properly displayed when browsing presets from KeyLabs
- Audio Unit state is now properly recalled when reopening a project
- Drag & Drop samples in the engine now works in Studio One
- No more corrupted delay FX preset
New in Pigments 2.1.1.3815 (Jun 25, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Faster preset loading time, especially in AU, VST3 and AAX
- Interface loading is now faster
- Animations are now smoother
- Animations CPU consumption is now reduced
- New convolution reverb engine
- VST3 presets now supported
- A pop-up is now shown when instruments vst/au/aax and system files are mismatching
- Bug fixes:
- Remove / replace an instrument no longer crashes Logic 10.5.1
- Midi Learn now works after clicking on Delete Current Config
- Resize the user interface is not fluid and doesn't lead to a blank screen anymore
- No more animation glitches when opening the advanced panel
- Control + click is now supported on all Mac models.
- Factory presets can now be saved in playlists
- Releasing sustain pedal no longer kills notes that are still held on the keyboard
- Sequencer now sends MIDI in VST2, VST3, AU and AAX
- Playing 6 notes at the same time when MPE is enabled, leads to Freeze
New in Pigments 2.0.1.837 (Mar 20, 2020)
- New Features:
- Pigments 2.0 presets are now NKS compatible
- No more time limit on user samples
- Add non-voice-stealing poly mode
- Sample engine crossfade has been improved
- MPE support has been improved
- Micro tuning support has been improved
- Minor GUI improvements
- Bugs:
- Sample loop points are now correctly saved
- No more crashes with Ableton Live during preset scan
- Parameter smoothing has been improved
- Samples too quiet are no longer normalized
- Poly aftertouch is working again
- Minor bugixes for the function in loop mode
- Free run sources are now reset by the sequencer on each start
New in Pigments 2.0.0 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Engines:
- Added a new sample engine
- Added a granular section within the sample engine
- Unison available within all the engines
- Unison voice count is now a continuous parameter
- Added a FM toggle switch for oscs #1 and #2 of the Virtual Analog engine
- Filters:
- Added a new west coast low pass gate
- Added the ability to copy one filter to the other
- Effects:
- Added a new tape echo delay
- Improved Compressor ballistics
- Added a fine delay control to the Delay
- Added the ability to toggle buses on/off
- Drag & drop and swap improvements
- Modulators:
- Added the ability to bypass / remove / reassign modulations
- Functions can now be used as loopable multi-segments envelopes
- Each random modulation source can now be Sample & Hold, Binary or Turing
- Sequencer:
- Plugin can output MIDI data
- Reworked random, it is now a deviation around "regular" values
- Reworked scale quantization, including user scales
- New transpose knob (modulable) before scale quantization
- Other:
- Added MPE support
- Added a Vu-meter in the toolbar
- GUI has been revamped
- Added undo/redo, with keyboard shortcuts available in standalone
New in Pigments 1.2.1 (Mar 20, 2020)
- New Features:
- Browser and Store GUI improvement
- Bugfixes:
- Filter FM Source is now properly loaded when switching to the multimode filter
- Highlighted parameter remains now after swapping filters
- Various NKS improvements
- StereoPan FX Rate and phaser rate can now be be sync'ed to the DAW clock
- Microtuning mapping now references A note, instead of C
- LFO visualizer now shows the right position when modulating the phase
- Wavetable visualizer now displays properly with all graphic cards
New in Pigments 1.2.0 (Mar 20, 2020)
- New Features:
- NKS compatibilty
- 53 new presets - type 1.2 in search bar to find them
- Added preset store - some packs already available
- Sharper envelope attack times now accessible
- Added Supersaw unison mode for a classic trance feel
- Added aftertouch response curve
- Microtuning (.scl and .tun) support
- Added a third Combinate slot
- Added Remap mode in Combinate - transform a modulator with a remapping function
- Independent clock divisor for each sequencer lane (Pitch, Octave, Velocity, ...)
- Reworked Sequencer graphics
- Modulation bar now highlights which modulator is being edited when hovering
- New tutorial about filters - accessible from the toolbar drop-down menu
- LFO Phase tool tip now shown in degrees
- Minor graphical improvements
- Bugfixes:
- Wavetable oscillator 3D viewer now shows the right wave when morph is OFF
- Some sound designer images and bio were missing, now properly displayed
- "+" button for styles can't be added as a style anymore
- Panic now properly received from external controllers
- Sidechain modulation now appears when side chain value is set to -1
- Graphical refinements and typos in tutorials and tooltips
- With some graphic cards, wavetable 3D display would not show up properly, now fixed
- Factory wavetables are not exported anymore when exporting a bank
New in Pigments 1.1.2 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Bugfixes:
- FX sends are now properly bounced when a Macro is assigned as a modulation source on send level using VST3
- No more crash when selecting ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver in standalone app
New in Pigments 1.1.1 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Bugfixes:
- Sequencer/Arpeggiator modulation value is now properly processed for the first step played
- No more note-off events are received when loosing window focus in standalone
New in Pigments 1.1.0 (Mar 20, 2020)
- New Features:
- Master tuning added in Keyboard tab
- Added a 6dB LPF and HPF slope mode to the Multimode Filter
- Sidechains are now displayed as modulations in the modulation bar
- Dynamic graphical representation of effects
- Poly Aftertouch handling added in Keyboard tab
- Velocity and Keyboard curve editor in Keyboard tab
- Turing and Binary random sources now have reset trigger sources
- Computer keyboard can now be used as a MIDI input in Standalone
- Improvements:
- Correct preset now loaded for First Look Tutorial
- Play mode (mono, legato, poly) now in Keyboard area
- The phase of sync'ed Functions is not changed when modulating the rate in One mode
- Bugfixes:
- Naming of parameters in modulation bar now correspond to the parameter name
- Window zoom improvements
- No more freezes when importing wavetables then exiting the wavetable browser
- Various GUI improvements for icons, labels, ...
- No more crashes in VST in GigPerformer on Mac
- Tagging a preset as a favorite does not kill notes anymore
- Pan knob dead zone improved
- First note is now properly rendered when exporting in FL20
- Deleting a wavetable sample now clears it from the list
- Missing samples are now properly reimported in User folder