Arturia Pigments 3 Tutorial Ep#19 - Arpeggiator & Sequencer Pt.1

Arturia's Pigments is a multi-featured, multi-engine synth with almost limitless modulation capabilities. In this series we'll deconstruct it to see how it works.

About me:

My name is Anthony Chisnall. I'm a musician & songwriter.

My channel is these things:

1. A place to share my songs - via various 'Back on Track' video series - in which you'll see each song idea evolve step-by-step, with me (hopefully!) improving my song-writing skills as we go.
2. An outlet for me to discuss all things musical - including technical break-downs of software and tools that I use, as well as more wide-ranging discussions of topics that interest me.

I play the guitar (electric, acoustic, and bass), and record all of my own synth-based sounds myself too, but I can't sing very well (huge understatement!), and so my wife, Pauline, who has a lovely singing voice, has come to my rescue. You'll hear her on all of my songs.

All of my music is written in Steinberg's Cubase.

I try very hard to make my videos PRACTICAL and no-nonsense - if I don't use a feature, I'm not going to waste your time trying to sound like an expert on it! This is the stuff I use day-to-day, so I think that's also what you'd like to hear me talking about.

Thanks to:

[PanopticMotion]

I watched this video and so many other videos about the Pigment arp/sequencer. Nobody has been able to explain how this thing works!

[markbelcher]

Thank you for this - loads of info and a great pace

[tlight]

Thanks for this series, very informative and clearly demostrated by someone who evidently knows what they're talking about.
#Rare

[YASIR.K]

waiting for that ... thank you, Anthony.

[fatflorida]

Can you explain what Gate length, slide, Trig proba are. Where do they originate come from and is there a vst for only slide?

[davidgriffiths]

Hi Anthony - have you thought about having a tip jar on your channel videos - so if we find something particularly helpful we can drop you a couple of quid? Not sure how YouTube runs its operations but just thought you might get a few people wanting to do that. Still look forward to your tutorials - excellent content as always.

[samdelfina]

I am using a preset, the big boss sound but i want to remove the sequencer part, i just want to keep the sound, How do i do that?

[MrJazz]

hello. why do you use the oscilloscope?

[jjwhittle]

How do you stop the sequencer/arp restarting the pattern with each new note?

[rmdoHiFi]

Can you type in a specific BPM? I'm having trouble dialing in the exact temp I need.

[skeletonmodel]

Thanks again, will look into this more. I must say: The explanation of the order of the notes: It's a little confusing that the first note will always play once and then the arpeggiator plays as the setting. As in: you say C-E-G then play it, to my ears it's C-C-E-G-E-C-E-G. That first 'extra' C seems unnecessary. Is that always there, or just because it's humanly not possible to play the 3 keys at the exact same time. So it registers your first note in the chord, repeats itself until it registers the others?

[stu]

Does anyone know what I'm getting at, is an option? To just play the chords "straight" (meaning all notes sound simultaneously) in the seq/arp. You have the options to play chords up and down/ down and up etc.. but no way of having the ability just to sound the complete chord, (meaning all notes sound simultaneously) thus being able to create various chord rhythm's using the arpeggiator/sequencer ? If anyone knows of this option please let me know. Personally I think this has been missed by Arturia, which would have been a nice simple option to have had, in such a complex seq/arp. There is too much emphasis on it's ability to generate random's, which is a good thing in it's own right. But regards to being able to do rhythmic chord patterns it sucks!

[stu]

Great tutorials, watched nearly all of them. I must admit I'm pretty disappointed with the arp/seq in pigments. I'm yet to hear a decent musical apr/seq.