Did You Know Arturia Pigments Does This? 🤔

Howdy doody, Buckaroonies! This time around, I wanted to talk about a bit of a overlooked feature of Arturia Pigments and show you how you can use it in your own sessions!

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0:00 Howdy
1:03 Final Result Demo
2:35 Important Note
3:02 Setup From Scratch
4:05 Using Pigments Sequencer + Arp
8:27 A Note About Generative Tools
8:42 In Context Example
9:13 Creating Polyphony
10:51 Why This Is Cool
11:27 Closing Thoughts

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[VenusTheory]

Hope this gives you all some inspiration to go make some new tunes this weekend! 🤠
Let me know the results! 🥳

[strangersun]

Pigments is brilliant. Arturia knocked it out of the park. Thanks for this video. Hadn't thought about running the arp into another synth.

[DirettoIZM]

That was GREAT! I love Pigments even more now - Thanks for this!

[DmitryPuffin]

Pigments has also random sample playback in its sampler engine, which can be used in with all other random generating stuff, so it even can create randomly modulated percussions. Pigments has lots of things that can inspire you in exciting ways.

[newignis]

Arturia is one of those companies that inspire with their hard- and software. Would love to see how they brainstorm for finding and developing new ideas.

[NigelMerrick]

I’ve had Pigments since it was first released and never knew it could do anything like this. Then again, I was using Reason as my DAW, which doesn’t support MIDI routing between VSTs. I use Cubase Pro 11 now, so I’m guessing (hoping) that these techniques will work in Cubase. I love Dune 3 as well, but I can see this being used on other instruments, too, such as pianos and other top layers that can add a touch of sparkle to a piece.

Great tutorial, Cameron, as always, and we appreciate the hard work and time you invest in creating these videos, thank you 😊

[cheetahlion]

Great video. I'm loving Pigments and using it for so many components in my music. Great ideas here on the sequencer, which I'm just starting to learn more about. Incredible powerful and complex.

[PatrickWaugh-kkze]

Awesome video that I happened to find EXACTLY when I needed to see it.

[MrGrindub]

Genius. The arpeggiator is my favourite feature of Pigments, now I can use it on external hardware. Total game changer

[ASOTFAN]

Imagine if Arturia released just that part of Pigments, the arp/sequencer with the LFOs and random generators and such. That would be the ultimate arp/sequencer plugin and would actually be super cool to have.

[Ginkeh]

Ive had Pigments since release and never even looked at the sequencer, I feel so stupid now! Thanks for this fantastic video!

[koin]

So I talked to a great customer support agent at Arturia named Baptiste and he helped me figure out how to do this in Ableton:

1. Insert a Midi track with Pigments on it and enable the sequencer. "Midi from" All ins, All channels.
2. Insert another empty midi track with the "Midi from" set to Pigments (in both the first and second slot) and the "Midi to" set to whichever instrument you want to trigger and track in (two slots).
3. The instrument you want to triggers midi settings should be "Midi from" All ins, All channels (two slots)
4. Set "monitor" to Auto on all 3 tracks. Arm all 3 tracks.
5. If you do not want any sound from the Pigments instrument you can either 1. turn off the sound engines in pigments (saves some CPU), or 2. deactivate the track in Live (but make sure its still armed)

[THR-zfti]

What a great sequencer - and by accident I just bought Pigments today - then Youtube suggested your video. Thanks by the why for your gorgeous toy Noctua!

[derekbaker]

VERY interesting & inspiring! I have Arturia's V Collection 8 & a ton of other VSTs that are retro-focused, so I have never felt the need to consider Pigments. However, the more I learn about Pigments, the more tempted I have become. Thanks for sharing a vid that highlights the sequencer/arp & export data functions in Pigments!

[stevew]

Awesome deep dive into some very useful features for being creative with Pigments.

[rabornjohnson]

Super cool! I didn't realize you could use the sequencer of one synth to power another. The idea of stringing 3 together for polyphony is such a great idea. Thanks, Cameron!

[DavidLilja]

The sequencer in Pigments is crazy! Almost worthy of being a plugin on it's own. Thanks for a great and easy to understand video about it.

[prod.bronze]

this is the kind of content I love. Thoughtful, passionate and well presented.

[afreezaphorogiancossack]

11:35 yeah that was super. I've always focused on my hardware sequencers, but this does have some really nice features that they don't. I'm definitely going to try this as a controller for some hardware synths this weekend! Thank you so much for the little tutorial.

[AlOne-xgdv]

The more i use PIGMENTS the more i love it. Thank you for these inspirational tricks.