It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats. Pigments 3 is a free update for existing users, and new users can grab the synth for the intro price of $99, rising to $199 after 13 May. Looking beyond this, there are further refinements across the board, including additional filter routing options, an added ramp waveform for the virtual analogue engine, and a clutch of new wavetables and presets.
There are new non-emulated effects here, too, including a pitched delay and multi-band compressor. These include a new Jupiter-8 filter model, the classic Juno-6 chorus for the effects section, and a Bel BF-20 analogue flanger recreation. Pigments also gains a few analogue emulation tricks lifted from elsewhere in Arturia’s range of software synths and effects. This exists in addition to the synth’s two existing engine slots, making it a handy tool for adding extra weight to a synth sound without having to sacrifice a slot that could have been used for wavetables or samples, etc. I'm confident that if I did not, and would not, already have Omnisphere, I'd buy Pigments 2 very quickly for < $100.Beyond the Harmonic generator, Pigments 3 also adds a new Utility Engine that contains two noise sources and a virtual analogue sub-oscillator. But I'm even on the fence about buying it for $69 when I already have Omnisphere and some others. I've used Pigments, but not v2, and not intensively. I may be underestimating, but Omnisphere can have something like 48 different layers going at once with up to 512 voices and a total of 300+ modulations simultaneously, plus as many built-in effects as your computer can stand before it's brought to its knees. How do these presets come about? From people designing sounds from scratch. Very intuitive, with great visualization and feedback.Again, Omnisphere is a synth that can use samples and has a lot of built-in effects, and happens to come with a bazillion presets with a bazillion more available for purchase from third parties. I have never used Omnisphere, but I think it's good to be used with tons of presets it's packed with while Pigments (I use it intensively from it's release date) is great synth to design sounds from scratch.
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