Creating A Patch In Arturia Pigments – Ambient Pad
Is Arturia Pigments any good for making pads? In this video I take apart a patch from my soundbank Recapture to show you how I created it from scratch, and demonstrate why I love Pigments for creating ambient sounds.
The patch ‘Failure Of Judgement’ is taken from my soundbank Recapture, a collection of 100 hyperreal synth presets and 37 samples for Arturia Pigments.
In the video I discuss
- Choice of sound sources to make an ambient-style pad
- Use of filters to control the tone and dynamics of the sound
- Use of modulation to create movement in the sound
- Use of effects to polish the sound’s character
- Assigning macros and mod wheel to create diversity in the patch

Arturia – MicroFreak Synthesizer Keyboard – 25-Key Hybrid Synth with PCB Keyboard, Wavetable & Digital Oscillators, Analog Filters
- Hybrid Synth Engine: Wavetable, physical modeling, and more
- Compact 25-Key PCB: Flat, touch-sensitive, no moving parts
- Versatile Oscillator Modes: 17 paraphonic modes including Arturia, Mutable, Noise
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