The art
of sound design
Pigments offers hundreds of master-crafted preset sounds for you to explore, enjoy, and personalize.
To give you the best range of sounds to represent the awesome power of Pigments, we scoured the globe for the most adventurous, experimental, and down-right cool sound designers around. Trailer sound design masters to sample pack geniuses, highly respected recording artists to pioneering modular synthesists. They’ve all been busy making totally unique, massively exciting sounds just for you.
On this page, you can read - in their own words - what our sound designers thought about Pigments, its workflow, how they approached their sound design, and a little bit about their favorite patch.
Mr Bill
I’m Bill, known as Mr. Bill in the electronic music world. Over 15 years I’ve built a career producing albums, EPs, collaborations, sound design tools, and education via tutorials and a podcast.
Mr Bill
Lovely Fifths
My favorite preset is called "Lovely Fifths". It's dead simple, but very usable. I've found usability out of this preset in multiple cases now, which is why I'd say it's one of my favorites.
Dash Glitch
Dash is a South African musician and sound designer with over a decade of experience in electronic music. Now focused on sound design and education, he inspires the next generation of producers through his engaging YouTube content.
Dash Glitch
Intelligent Life
If I had to pick one, my favorite preset is 'Intelligent Life'. It’s simple yet highly effective, delivering rhythmic grooves packed with variation. I’ve already found it invaluable in several work-in-progress tracks, where it adds an irresistible layer of depth and movement.
Gustavo Bravetti
Always in love with music and technology, musician, producer and live performer, Gustavo started programming synths and computers in the late 80’s. Nowadays he fulfills his childhood dreams.
Gustavo Bravetti
Bells Of Varanasi
‘Bells Of Varanasi’ emerged from experimenting with the Modal engine, using its detune function in a unique way. Disabling Modal Stereo shifts odd and even harmonics apart, creating a one-of-a-kind timbre. The result is an incredibly expressive and realistic bell sound that transports you to a far-east land.
Zardonic
Federico Ágreda Álvarez - professionally known as Zardonic - is a DJ with hundreds of tracks released as a solo artist as well as with countless bands as a producer, composer, sound designer, remixer, mixing and mastering engineer.
Zardonic
Chainsaw
“The Chainsaw” is my favorite preset. Knowing the FX section included a powerful parametric EQ and a distortion effect, I researched how to match the right EQ curve with a distortion circuit. While it’s not an exact replica, it gets impressively close to certain guitar-pedal tones.
Ollie Psy
I'm Ollie, a sound designer, Psytrance producer and content creator. I craft sounds with psychedelic and cinematic textures and have worked on Fred’s Lab Manatee and Arturia Pigments while creating sound libraries, lessons and music.
Ollie Psy
This Olive Is Acid
“This Olive Is Acid” is the preset that made me realize how gorgeous the distortion on the new Rage filters is. It started as an attempt to create a plucky, string-like instrument, something close to a guitar, but it quickly turned into a screaming acid lead the moment I applied some distortion from one of the Rage filters.
Adrobski
Adrobski is a French musician and sound designer, who composes for brands like LVMH, Lacoste, or visual 3D artists like Blansable, Matteyyy, Matthieu Braccini and accompanies other musical artists in their projects.
Adrobski
3K
3K is a deep, powerful bass! I created it from a simple wavetable, then added harmonies with distortion and a piano sample. Adding a piano sample creates a stronger attack. I wanted this bass to be playable both as a bass and as a lead, so I added a modulation effect to create a wider sound that takes up more space.
Father Funk
My name is Will, aka Father Funk. I’m a DJ and Music Producer based in Vancouver, BC. My sound combines elements of Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Disco, with high energy Bass Music such as Dubstep, Drum & Bass and Bass House.
Father Funk
Square Squank Bass
"Square Squank Bass" is a super fun and versatile preset. It's essentially a square wave with a resonant high pass filter on it but by messing around with the macros you can get some really interesting variations. I actually used this patch in my remix of "Brass Pineapple" by Sunsquabi I put out recently.
Francis Preve
Francis is a sound designer, producer, and college professor based in the USA. He has consulted on the development of numerous synthesizers, as well as production for both TV and film projects.
Francis Preve
Klockwerk
I really like Klockwerk, which layers two Modal sounds with a Comb LP6 model. Each layer is triggered by its own tempo-synced Function modulator. I set everything up with a Rate Macro that transforms the timing of all three rhythms at once. The Mod Wheel also morphs everything into a soft ambient pad.
Lily Jordy
I'm a multi-instrumentalist turned sound designer and engineer, creating and performing organic electronic music as “Lyli J” for the past 12 years. Mesmerized by the art of synthesis and audio sculpting, I've been part of the sound design team and creative process at Arturia since 2017.
Lily Jordy
Tension Bass
Tension Bass is a preset based on the new modal engine, and I love how much it can mutate between a subdued sub or a heavy distorted drone: you can truly meld it like metal!
Some of the most talented
musicians, producers, and sound designers we work with
- 10 Phantom Rooms
- Adrobski
- Ale Mastroianni
- Alex Retsis
- Andrew Huang
- Ardeor
- Arovane
- Baptiste Le Goff
- Bitley
- Brase
- Cubic Spline
- Dash Glitch
- Denis Da Silva
- Diego Tejeida
- Edouard Madeuf
- emptyvessel
- Father Funk
- Florian Marin
- Francis Preve
- Gabriel Sauvage
- Graphyt
- Gustavo Bravetti
- Hugo Sebastian
- Jean-Baptiste Arthus
- Jean-Michel Blanchet
- Joe Sheldrick
- Joerg Huettner
- Joseph Gilling
- Jeremiah Savage
- Klaus Baetz
- Graphyt
- Ismael Ait Babaziz
- Ksenija Ladic
- Laura Katic
- Lektrique
- Lily Jordy
- Ludo
- Lyoks
- Marco Iodice
- Marius Rabin
- Martin Rabiller
- Matt Pike
- Maxime Audfray
- Maxime Dangles
- mleuc
- Mord Fustang
- Mr. Bill
- Zardonic
- New Loops
- Ollie Psy
- _opal
- Paul Renard
- Popbot
- Quentin Feuillard
- Raynald Dantigny
- Rhythm Lab
- Richard Veenstra
- Seb Rochard
- Simon Gallifet
- Solidtrax
- Starcadian
- Summa
- Thomas Koot
- Twolegs Toneworks
- Venus Theory
- Victor Morello
- Yuli Yolo
- Zardonic
- 0tanh
- _opal
- aowaves
- Arovane
- Arthur Cormerais
- Bleizik
- djeb
- Florian Marin
- Gabriel Sauvage
- Goncalo Penas
- Joe Sheldrick
- Joseph Gilling
- KAIFU
- Kuba Sojka
- Level 8
- lukasipo
- Marius Rabin
- Martin Rabiller
- Minor Science
- mleuc
- Nasko
- Pegboard Nerds
- Simon Gallifet
- Tutara Peak
- Zain Hayat