{"id":8056,"date":"2019-12-14T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2019-12-14T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:16:08","slug":"pigments-sampling-granular-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/pigments-sampling-granular-synthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring sampling techniques and granular synthesis with Arturia&#8217;s Pigments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arturia just released a major update to Pigments, their flagship wavetable synthesizer.<\/h2>\n<p>The update includes a brand-new sample engine with <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/intro-granular-synthesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granular synthesis<\/a> capabilities, an improved sequencer, and numerous general performance enhancements. One new feature that&#8217;s particularly exciting is the <strong>sample engine<\/strong>, which allows users to load samples directly into Pigments for sound design.<\/p>\n<p>In the tutorial video below, we demonstrate how powerful the sample engine is by making a full beat using nothing but Pigments:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Making beats with Arturia Pigments&#039; new sample engine (granular synthesis sound design)\" width=\"370\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Methjt0xryM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have Pigments? Try the powerful synth out for free <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/plugins\/38677978-pigments-vst-au-by-arturia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial video, we demonstrate how powerful Pigments&#8217; new sampling engine is by making a full beat using nothing but the synth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1696],"tags":[1677,1678,333,1473,666],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exploring sampling techniques and granular synthesis with Arturia&#039;s Pigments - Blog | Splice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this tutorial video, we demonstrate how powerful Pigments&#039; 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