Arturia Pigments 7 Out Today - Free Upgrade

With Pigments 7, Arturia has kept the twin-engine architecture intact and added three new distortion/filter blocks, enhanced the performance-centric Play View and added plenty of new presets.

The revamped Play View shows a single pane with the waveform, four assignable macros, preset tags and modulation rings that redraw in real time.  

Three new distortions give a lot more drive flavour.
Rage Filter is a dual-mode diode-style overdrive parked inside the filter module. Push the drive past 2 o'clock and the resonant peak folds back on itself, giving self-oscillating screams that track keyboard pitch great for 90s squealing 303 but with keyboard-spanning tracking.

Ripple Filter is a phase-offset peak/notch pair that can morph from vocal formant. Automate the offset with a 1/16th ramp and you get those talking-bass sounds.

Corroder is a frequency-selective lo-fi crusher: you can bit-crush only the top 4 kHz while leaving the sub intact, or reverse the split for cheap-radio mids. Feed it a drum loop and you get transient-preserving grit that would normally take a multiband plug-in chain.

Modulation precision gets an upgrade too. The amp envelope is rewritten for 0.3 ms snap – the difference is obvious on kicks and  hi-hats where you want the transient to poke before the sub. Classic filter now accepts audio-rate FM.

CPU load is reportedly down 15-20 % on heavy patches thanks to vectorised filter code; on a 2019 MacBook Air the same patch that hit 65 % in Pigments 6 now sits at 48 %.

There are new sounds: 150 factory presets, 450 expansion presets, 50 new wavetables, 30 multisamples and 20 noise layers. The expansions are tagged by genre rather than by module, so you can filter for "Techno Bass" and get results that pull from any engine. Tutorials are available from the browser: click "Make a Talking Bass" and the UI highlights Ripple Filter, Macro 1 and the mod matrix in sequence. 

Workflow  Enhancements:
Modulation depth rings now show actual voltage range, so when you assign an LFO to filter cutoff you see ±36 st instead of a percentage – handy when you are trying to keep things musical.
Preset tags are writable from the save dialogue, so you can label user patches with BPM, key and genre metadata without opening the browser later.
Finally, the FX chain can be re-ordered by drag-and-drop; drop Corroder before or after the compressor and the UI redraws the signal flow in real time.

If you already own Pigments, the update is free and breaks nothing – load old sessions and the new envelope code actually tightens up the transients.  

For the end of the year, Pigments 7 will be available for 99 $/€ for non-users, with even greater savings for existing Arturia customers based on their registered products.

This introductory price runs from December 16, 2025 to January 7, 2026 on the Arturia webstore.

Explorations Vol.5 will also be available during the same period, priced at 29.99$/€. 

More information:
https://arturia.com

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