Ambient Sound Design with Pigments 3

Using the granular synthesis and wavetable engines to make an ambient pad in Arturia Pigments 3. Cheers and enjoy!

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[sgnsflfe]

An extremely powerful and accessible synth...especially for ambient.

[nightpsyche]

I love watching people play with my favorite synth.

[SongOfItself]

It's such a pleasure watching you do this! Of all the synths I have (too many!) Pigments is my "desert island" synth. It may not have 8 layers like Dune 3 or the nearly inexhaustible oscillators and modulators like Phase Plant, but it has enough, and it is so beautifully designed and so open to playing around with. All my best sound designs came out of Pigments. With the colors and the constant motion of the LFOs etc, playing it is like floating, dreamy, . What a gorgeous synth, rarely is there a piece of software this beautiful and pliant.

[poobens]

Cameron’s Pigments videos are some of my favorites, and finding this series on your channel felt like Christmas morning!! I’ve been holding off purchasing Pigments but I think now is the time. Thanks as always Chris!

[solacelestial]

SUCH A GREAT VIDEO! Having so much fun experimenting. Thank you so much! I found it easiest to just resample the piano in another track then drag it into pigments, just an alternate way to do that incase it fits someone else's work flow too! :)

[ToreHansen]

I have been a Pigmens owner...for four days and its bonkers!

[jamesconradtucker]

As usual, great insight, Chris. FWIW, I never come away from Pigments granular synthesis thinkinking it sounds good. Not vompared with at least a few other sift synth's who get their filtering right.

[quintinspina]

4:36 hey just so you know, if u freeze a track and right click & flatten, its essentially bounce. No need to export like that, js.

[HpBeck_Fieldrecordings]

Top****one of the best Pigment 3 videos out there to make ambient pads*More please

[SiTheMon]

Youve just answered so many questions I had on this synth. Great vid mate

[ProjectPreUniverse]

I had some questions which I thought would be answered in years and you sir just solved them in 20 minutes! Thank you very much for uploading such a constructive video!

[jasonchambers]

To sort of bounce in place, after you freeze your track, just copy and paste the frozen clip into an audio track clip slot. It will print an audio clip for you that you should be able to drag into a sampler. Cheers :)

[morphicfield]

A Tip for exporting/rendering Audio in Ableton: Grab the Melda Production Free Bundle. in there is MRecorder, a small but versatile Recorder Plugin that does most of the work for you. Put it on the track you want to record, set Fade in and Fade out if needed, Hit Record (first time you have to tell the Plug in where to store the recordings) and youre done. If you have the Output Folder of MRecorder in your Folder List in Ableton you can grab the recorded Audio from there almost emidiatly.

[Interstellore]

Dude. I’m late here but this vidéo is absolutes 🔥

[synkrotron]

some great stuff here... going to have to return a number of times to take everything in ;-D

[NachosPizza]

thanks for this video, i have been using serum for awhile and am trying to decide if I want to give pigments a try, this was very helpful.

[tennhard]

I didn’t know about the Modulator tuning! Fantastic stuff!

[Keroser]

Amazing!!!! Thank you very much for the walkthrough...Could we make a pad for epic Trance Breakdowns? :) I believe Pigments would be amazing for that... Please do more for Pigments...As you have said we have not scratched surface yet...

[Digithalis]

very very nice, thats I'm looking for, thanks a lot captain! 🙂

[hiding_my_name]

Thanks so much Chris! I bought this synth a long time ago and never got around to learning it. Now I got one of my fav YT'ers doing a series on it! Hope to see a bunch more!

EDIT: Any chance you might be releasing some presets for it, or do another preset making party for it?