Arturia Pigments 5 audio enter: video tutorial, suggestions and tips, free presets

Pigments 5 from Arturia provides the power to route audio enter into tender synth, opening up new sound design potentialities and turning Pigments right into a multi-effects plug-in for any supply. Here’s an in depth information on how one can use it, with notes – and a few presets to get you going.

Produced in partnership with Arturia – thanks for his or her help!

Using audio enter

Here’s the video information:

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Why would you need audio enter inside Pigments? There are lots of use instances:

You can layer audio enter sidechained from one other monitor with the synth engines (and even the noise sources on the Utility engine)
Route audio by way of the Pigments filters
Gate audio with the Pigments amplitude envelopes
Add any of the Pigments results to a monitor (refrain, distortion, delay, filter, shimmer, reverb, and so on.)
Create gate patterns utilizing the (redesigned!) Pigments 5 sequencer

And then, after all, you’ll be able to mix all of these and add Pigments’ modulation, envelopes, macros, and efficiency potentialities, together with MPE help.

The video walks by way of the setup and I’ve included a template within the free obtain to avoid wasting you some steps. But the fundamental course of to be used as a plug-in:

Instantiate Pigments on a MIDI monitor.
Sidechain a supply to the Pigments plugin (utilizing your DAW’s regular sidechain function)
Under Utility Engine, change NOISE 2 to AUDIO INPUT.
Turn up the audio enter.
Play a be aware (or create a MIDI sample) – or in case you simply need multi-effects, simply make an extended MIDI be aware.

This additionally works in Pigments 5 standalone mode, and naturally, you would at all times use it with outboard gear in addition to software program inputs. But in case you’ve ever wished you would use a Pigments filter or impact on one thing apart from Pigments – want granted.

And there at the moment are a complete lot of filter fashions:

— and results:

Interestingly, I discovered myself even recreating a few of what I’d been taking part in with in Efx MOTIONS. Motions gives extra elaborate instruments for creating envelopes, Euclidean rhythms, and different automation. But there are nonetheless some benefits to Pigments, together with that new sequencer. And for no matter purpose, switching between the 2 gave me concepts for the opposite.

Free presets

Arturia didn’t embrace presets with audio enter, so I made a collection of my very own. Quite a bit use the sequencer, which means you’ll be able to go wild with including your individual gated patterns by modifying them. And you need to discover they work nicely throughout drum components, melodic bits, and extra. In the examples, you’ll hear them with the ACID V synth from Arturia, plus for drum machines, ALM/Busy Circuits’ Motto Akemie and D16’s Nepheton.

Most presets embrace a compressor to tame sign a bit, however you could want to regulate audio enter acquire and in any other case tailor settings on your supply materials. (That could also be why Arturia didn’t embrace their very own presets, however that is approach an excessive amount of enjoyable!)

Download the presets by way of WeTransfer

If you make updates or tweaks, be at liberty to share them – export your individual financial institution!

Here’s how they sound:

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MPE and macros

One different be aware: I make heavy use of the macros within the presets. If you discover you’ll be able to’t transfer the MACRO 1 knob (higher left), verify Settings and see if MPE is enabled (MIDI polyphonic expression, to be used with supported expressive controllers). There are additionally choices for absolute and relative mode. I discovered it was best to disable MPE after which allow it once more if utilizing a controller (just like the Osmose). One benefit of Pigments is that the creations right here turn out to be actually playable in a approach a standard impact just isn’t (or at the very least normally not with out some effort).