To achieve a tinted effect we recommend mixing small quantities of pigment into your resin at a time, observing your results as you go, this way you can make additions until you reach the desired effect.įor a fully opaque finish we would recommend adding between 0.2% and 1% by weight – so for 200g of mixed resin you would add up to 2 grams of pigment.

Can Pigments 3 still compete? (Spoiler alert: oh, yes.Our Vista Pigments are highly concentrated, and so only a small amount needs to be applied to your mixed epoxy. However, in the two years since Pigments was originally released, the competition has heated up, particularly in the wavetable department. The French company has clearly been busy, as version 3 arrives with yet another synthesis engine, an additional filter type and new filter routings, a clutch of new effects, and more. Now, just about two years on from its original release, Arturia have dropped Pigments number 3. We were impressed enough to include it on our list of the best wavetable synths available. Not content to set it and forget it, the driven developers at Arturia released Pigments 2 later that same year, adding a sampler and granular engine among other tweaks. With a mix of virtual analogue and wavetable engines, it offered a nice compromise for musicians who wanted the sound of the former and the convenience and complexity of the latter. That all changed in 2019 with the release of Pigments, their first original softsynth. Until recently, Arturia were best-known (software-wise, at least) for their emulations.

Can this colourful plugin hold its own in a very crowded softsynth market?

Pigments 2 review