

This arrangement has not changed since we looked at Pigments 3, but Arturia has made some important enhancements nonetheless.

(There’s also a third Utility engine that provides a pair of noise generators and a sub-oscillator, regardless of which models are loaded into the other two engine slots).

This chameleon-like ability starts with Pigments’ pair of flexible sound engines, each of which can load any one of four different models – Analog, Wavetable, Sample and Harmonic – each encompassing a different approach to generating source tones for the synth. “multi-coloured”) synthesizer is in reference to the instrument’s hugely varied and variable sonic palette. Arturia’s description of Pigments as a “Polychrome” (lit.
