Only bought this few weeks ago and already a big update. Excellent purchase just got better
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Ahh manā¦ I really should wait to upgrade given I have it in a lot of existing projects, but I canāt resist itā¦ I frkn love Pigmentsā¦ Iām going in.
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Pigments has stopped me from buying a poly synth for 2 years now. When I find the right one Iāll pull the trigger, but still, every time I open pigments it chants ALL YOU NEED IS ME.
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5 mins in, itās superb.
Filter the banks for āPigments 4ā to see the new features in action.
Thereās a preset called Scrapyard Piano thatās cool.
New UI looks good. Shimmer reverb is a good addition.
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Wow, thatās a very big update. And itās all free.
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Itās going to take me a few days to get around to this, but please God, please, tell me they fixed the PWM bug.
I do see this in the changelog:
āNew Pulse Width algorithm in Wavetable Engineā
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I keep thinking at some point theyāre going to have to make it a paid upgrade; they canāt keep making them free foreverā¦ And yet hereās 4.0, free again!
I guess they have been supplementing development somewhat with preset banks. The new Wavelength series looks interesting; I might have to pick some of those up with what I was half-expecting to spend on an upgrade.
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They had me at neurobass. I couldnt hit Apple Pay any faster.
Plus , Iām so glad I didnāt get the V collection or the fx bundle. Itās all in pigments and set up with presets that you can tweak. Just fabulous.
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I think itās a loss leader just like analog lab. They make the money back from preset banks. More power to them. Sometimes you just need that āsoundā for your project oh and hereās 10 dollars.
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Yeah, pigments makes me feel like I wasted money on some hardware lol.
That said, I havent tried this new version yet. Can anyone tell if thereās stepping on the filter in this version? I donāt know if itās just me but when I play a note and move the filter cutoff with my mouse I hear stepping but I never heard it when using an envelope or lfo in the synth. Never used an automation lane either I should test that. Itās a very minor stepping noise but it definitely wasnāt smooth like other synths, even soft synths.
Re: the Loss Leader discussion: I think half of us by now also have bought Fx Collection or their synths collection. They really seem to want to be pulling us in for the whole ecosystem. Iāve heard their Vsts are heavy on the cpu so I wonāt get them, but I might get their fx collection too at some point.
Anyways, I just bought Pigments as my first and only softsynth - during Black Friday, great to already get an update!
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The only hardware worth buying is analog
Software eats everything else for lunch
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Nahhhā¦ being able to get hands on with hardware is worth it whether itās Digi or Analog.
Iād love a dedicated controller for Pigments, I imagine it would be quite big though.
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Every time I buy a software plugin I have the same feeling. Then I told myself I will never again buy a shit plugin even if omg itās discount. Then there is -50% discount and I continue to waste my money in soft I never use.
I second the pigments controller, Arturia listen up! haha.
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Every time they do a cool free update like this I buy a new sound pack (reduced top $9 anyway) just as a little thank you!
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You know that these more expensive keylabs have amazing integration, right?
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yup! but Iād say there is a difference between a more universal controller with good integration and a dedicated pigments hardware controller.
Iād pay for the latter, but the keylab mkiiās donāt have the kind of pigments integration iām looking for. Itās really just 8 knobs and faders mapped to certain parametersā¦
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100% this.
I daydream about something that looks like a PolyBrute or MatrixBrute that is just a dedicated Pigments controllerā¦ Ā£500-Ā£600?
Sign me up.
Edit- this daydream is usually followed by me looking at the Waldorf Iridium Keyboard to scratch that itch. 
Donāt get me started on my dedicated controller versus MIDI mapping rant!
I think a Pigments-specific controller could be really interesting. I imagine it looking less like a synth and more like a Loupedeck. Natively controlling a VST should take into account the workflow of the plugin, its different modes and screens, and so on. I donāt necessarily know how all that would work, but thatās where the design process comes in.
I design user interfaces for a living, so I tend to think about these things as a sort of dream project. 
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