They don’t have a Pigments controller, but it sounds like for the right amount of money they could design one.
For something comparable take a look at the controller for the u-he Diva.
Note the five knobs across the top, that switch between five different Diva modes.
It would certainly be interesting to spend the week plus to mock up an image of a Pigments controller, and spend another week or so investigating the software side of that interface.
I love my modular, but the big issue with replacing Pigments with a modular synth is the lack of polyphony. I don’t mind this myself – in fact, one of the strengths of modular is that it forces you to think about signal flow in a different way – but it isn’t set up to be a polysynth replacement.
However, if you’re ok with giving up on polyphony then a small Euro system might be a viable choice. It wouldn’t be too expensive if you keep it small. You’d have the benefit of modulation and sequencing options that go way beyond anything you’ll find elsewhere.
I have a Novation Peak, and there is some similarities between Pigments and Peak.
I’ve been using my Roland JDXA a lot more recently, this has similar expansiveness to Pigments in hardware form (especially that you can run 12 simultaneous partials/engines), but going deep on it for editing requires more patience than I usually have.
Congrats on the 49€ score of Pigments, that’s some bang for the buck.
I don’t follow…? My point is that you can’t easily have all of the following things at once in hardware: polyphony, many types of synthesis, modulation options, and excellent sequencing. However, if you’re willing to part with polyphony, then you can have the other 3 things in modular. Not sure why that’s confusing?
That’s better. The “you can’t easily have all of the following” makes all the difference. I said more or less the same thing myself, when i reacted to tentakill’s post suggesting that a modular approach was possible but rather pricey, where i said, “add difficult to it being expensive”.
Not sure why you single out on polyphony though ? Modulars don’t “lack polyphony” as you originally said. Polyphony in modular is as doable as any of it.
So some messy, difficult, expensive modular version of Pigments including the polyphony is quite possible.
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So i want to add one more option to the list in this thread.
Turning the difficulty level way, way up, way past 11. Someone could create their own version of the Pigments Synth from scratch.
