Arturia and Moog both have plugin versions of the old Moog modular and Arturia has a Buchla easel which cover old school modular type sounds. The latest version introduced blocks which provide a higher level modular experience.

Reaktor is probably the oldest version of this type of plugin (not including Max and PD which aren't really plugins). If you do want to scratch the modular itch it might be a good choice but there are other options and I'm not sure about how I feel about paying for additional snap-ins (aka modules). I would not really compare it to Pigments which has very flexible routing but at the end of the day is not modular. PP seems like one of many virtual modular environments which are really focused on creating complex patches you can't really get out of a fixed architecture synth. So I'm still in the need for a save function like 'save samples into the preset' and a better way to manage personal folders.īy the way, I don't know what's the point of the 'Imported' folder located at 'Program Data/Arturia/Samples/Pigments/User' (not the one in 'Classic Samples') since when you import a sample/folder, it is copied to 'Classic Samples'.I don't own Phase Plant but I looked it up and I have to say if you are the type of producer who mostly tweaks presets maybe it isn't for you (no judgement). Not so handy and logical (or maybe I missed something), and this is the reason of my post here (I thought we could add samples to 'D:/My samples' without the need to copy the samples to 'Classic Samples' or reimport the folder from Pigments software). Each time we want Pigments to refresh a personal folder (located say at 'D:/My samples', we must copy the content once again to the 'Classic Samples' folder. Nevertheless, the auto-copy we have now allows us to move samples where we want because they also are in 'Classic Samples'. In my humble opinion, the samples should remain at the original location and Pigments should better reacts when samples move from the original location to an external hard drive (for example). Though it is not specified in the manual, when you import a personal sample/folder (from the import function), Pigments automatically copy the content to the 'Classic Samples' folder. If we copy samples to 'Program Data/Arturia/Samples/Pigments/User/Classic Samples', it works very well.

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