Arturia has kicked off 2025 with a bang by launching the sixth iteration of its powerful sound design software Pigments.

Front and center in the lineup of new features is a new Vocoder, which enables producers to get truly creative with voice modulation. There’s also a new Modal engine, new filters and modulators, and an improved user interface.

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The aforementioned Modal engine, which features a host of “physically-inspired” sounds – in Arturia’s words – like collisions or friction-based sounds. There’s a bunch of sounds to get started with, too, including string plucks and lush pad sounds.

There’s also been improvements to Pigments’ Granular engine, which enables users to scan through samples mid-playback for time-stretching atmospheres, randomise grain playback for each note, and continuously adjust grain size for “fluid, evolving textures”.

Pigments 6 also features new filters – an analog-focused Multimmode V2, Cluster filter and LoFi – and new modulators. As Arturia says, “elevate expression by assigning different modulation values per voice, adding deeper randomness, triggering audio-driven envelope followers, and sculpting curves with the revamped Function V2.

Pigments 6 is available now at a launch price of £82/$103. If you’re an existing Pigments user, you can download the update totally free.

For more information, head to Arturia.

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