Hello,
I have downloaded “Patchmaker- 500 Presets Arturia Pigments.zip” from 500 Presets - Arturia Pigments – Patchmaker.
The size of the included file 500Pigments.pgtx is about 2GB (uncompressed). Because of its size, this file contains more than just presets; it also includes samples (as far as I understand it).
The folder C:\ProgramData\Arturia\Pigments is only about 760MB. There are no other folders related to Arturia. When I export the PGTX file from Pigments, the exported file is 670 MB.
I have two questions:
Where are the Pigments samples stored?
If I delete the bank in Pigments, will all the presets and samples be fully removed from the PC?
As these aren’t actually from the Official Arturia Store i can’t say for sure, but they should conform to Arturia’s methodology to work properly.
All your Arturia software resources, VST3 files etc apart, should be contained within C:\ProgramData\Arturia\Samples and then in each sub folder for each instrument, there are Factory and User folders on a fresh install, i do not know if there is a folder for the banks you purchased or if it will be contained within the user folder.
Does the collection you purchased have Mac installers too, which possibly might have doubled the included samples to bump the size up so much? So when you install using the Win installer it’s only installing so much of the data?
If you uninstall from The Win Control Panel then they should be deleted, but i’d double-check for sure, as i usually do after uninstalling software.
I compared the subfolders of C:\ProgramData\Arturia with a backup taken before the installation of 500Pigments.pgtx.
The folder C:\ProgramData\Arturia\Samples has not been changed, but a new folder called “C:\ProgramData\Arturia\Presets\Pigments\User\500 Presets - Pigments” has appeared. This folder is about 50 MB in size and contains 500 files.
The file “Patchmaker-500 Presets Arturia Pigments.zip” is 1.5 GB in size. It contains only the pgtx file, as well as a small txt and pdf file. There is no Mac installer.
I mean, it is not a problem if there is a “hidden” large file somewhere (the SSD still has enough free space). I was only wondering why this zip file is so large and wanted to understand.
I also have added this bank, and tried to figure out why the pgtx file is so big (~2GB), and it doesn’t seem to add samples and wavetables to the Library.
Looking deeper into those presets, it appears that they are actually using a lot of the Arturia Factory Library wavetables and samples, so my guess is that those wavetables and samples are bundled in the pgtx file when Patchmaker created and exported their preset bank, but that when importing that bank, Pigments recognizes the factory wavetables and samples and doesn’t duplicate them if they already exist.
I haven’t found any custom samples nor wavetables in that bank, so far!