

but it turned out the magic was in the distortion. There was one factory preset I really enjoyed, and I couldn't figure out why it sounded so cool, since the oscillator was basically a single triangle or sine or something boring that should have sounded like a test tone.

You won't like all the presets, or even most, but I'd be surprised if there weren't a handful of bass and pad presets that you like, or at least find interesting, and it's worth tearing those apart to see how they tick.ĭon't forget the effects section! Usually I regard synth effects as icing on the cake, but the distortion effects in Pigments can create some pretty interesting/nasty timbres. I agree with the above posts that mention checking out some of the presets and seeing how they work. I've got quite a few synth VSTs, but Pigments is the one I reach for more often than anything else, and I could easily rely on it as my only synth.
