ARTURIA Pigments
€149
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As I have said in another recent soft synth review – that of Audiaire’s Zone, (read my review on www.musictech.net now!) – soft synths really do need something to stand out these days, and something pretty extraordinary. There’s so much competition – from the modular scene, from more ‘standard’ hardware keyboard synths and modules; from freeware soft synths and from the plug-in synths already bundled with your DAWs – that software synth developers simply have to put the effort in, or else their wares will be lost, rather like tears in the rain.
However, the fact that these developers have to work so hard has resulted in some cracking releases for all of us. The ‘problem’ though – and this is such a first-world one that I’m almost tempted not to write it – is that they are so good, so relatively inexpensive to add to your collection and in many cases, so innovative, that I’ve simply got too many.
The result of this surfeit of soft-synth options at my fingertips is that I’m not diving into any of the ones I have beyond a superficial level; I’m using them merely as instruments rather than synthesisers. I’m not, even more annoyingly, following my own advice – which is to learn how
