I looked at installing older versions of pigments which is not possible from ASC. I think at this point I already lost all tracks using pigments in all my productions. In hindsight I believe what happened is that I was using a vst2 version of pigments which got overwritten with a vst3 version. I only expect breaking changes for major updates.Īfter updating, I opened ableton live which told me that the pigments plugins is incompatible with the version of live. Since I had pigments 3.2 I thought this is a minor update with full backwards compatibility. Of course, the sound character of the oscillators is the same but it‘s very hard if not impossible to reproduce MicroFreak patches on the MiniFreak plugin and vice versa.I updated to pigments 3.5 using the Arturia Software Center (ASC). I was really hoping that the plugin would be an easy way to use my favorite MicroFreak sounds on the go. I own the MicroFreak hardware and the MiniFreak V plugin. I need to pull the trigger on the plugin version.īy chance, do you own both hardware Freaks? C'mon Arturia, what were you smoking? LFO frequency 0-100? ADSR times 0-100? WTF. IMHO this is a significant drawback for sound design. The MiniFreak knobs always use a fixed value scale from 0-100.
The MicroFreak has absolute values, often in suitable units like Hz or seconds. Moreover, the values of the knobs are different.
It also misses the wavetable and vocoder oscillators. I mean you can't even transfer patches manually. And I don't mean importing, loading, converting or anything like that. You simply can't transfer MicroFreak patches to the MiniFreak V. there is a big BUT that all MicroFreak lovers should know. The MiniFreak V does sound great and I'm using it in all my new tracks and jams.īUT. That was an instabuy for me since I love my MicroFreak. I found some lovely ambient friendly presets for Minifreak (hardware and software) here: There's also a very good price on a bundle deal with Arturia V Collection 9. Log into your Arturia account for the best price.
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