Arturia Pigments Play — a free virtual synthesizer

Arturia has released a virtual instrument offering the basic features of its flagship software synthesizer. It supports Windows 10 or later and macOS 11 or later in VST, AAX and AU formats, and as a standalone application.

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The new instrument is a reduced version of Pigments , Arturia's flagship virtual synthesizer. Play has 100 presets covering a wide range of sounds for pop, R&B, garage, house, drum and bass, trap, ambient and other genres. Users can buy additional sound banks. The built-in Pigments engine supports six synthesis methods, 68 filter types and 20 effects.

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Pigments Play does not allow full sound editing, but provides basic controls for two synthesis engines, two filters, an amplitude envelope and four effects. Four macro controls offer quick one-knob adjustment: Timbre, Character, Time and FX.

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More information and the synthesizer download are available on the official website Arturia.