Is it normal behavior that enabling the filter adds popping/distortion?

Software Instruments Pigments
#1

I am creating a kick drum with a sine wave, envelope on Coarse pitch modulating down

LIke this:

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However when enabling any filter (I tried all of them, they have varying amount of pop, but they all pop), there is a pop at the attack

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Here’s a youtube link, maybe with youtube compression you can’t hear the pop as clearly but you can see the distortion in SPAN

Is this expected? Am I doing something wrong?

Was trying to get a clean kick sound without the pop

Thank you

#2

Hi clippykick,

I can’t check the video, but I’ve attached a preset for you to try. Is this the kind of thing you were looking to do? Otherwise, the nature of the pure sine wave might be just giving you that poppy initial transient.

Pigments_Preset_TestKick_20250228_11h48.pgtx (136.6 KB)

#3

My bad, I had the wrong settings on the youtube video, it’s fixed now

Thanks, this is pretty much the same as my settings, and I hear a pop at the attack

Disabling the filter removes the pop

Using Ableton Wavetable with similar settings, enabling the filter does not introduce a pop

#4

Hi @clippykick. Welcome back.

It look like you have’nt updated to Pigments 6. Please do that. It’s a free update.
Also please read the release notes for Pigments 6. Filter clicks have been removed or improved.

#5

Oh that’s awesome, good to know! Thank you!

I am aware that there’s new version of Pigments, but I am trying to finish a project now with a deadline and was afraid to update in case it could alter the sound of my existing patches

Is that something I should be careful of or am I being too paranoid?

#6

You can install 6. If there is a difference you can always roll back to 5.

The various version downloads are in the resources section of the Pigments page on Arturia’s website. (you have to click “show archives” to see previous versions)

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigments/resources#soft

#7

Normally i think it’s good to not update during a project, if it’s important not to change or risk anything.
But you can bounce instrument tracks to audio tracks. That’s always the safe way to keep a project.
You can do like @Promidi suggest. Perhaps test Pigments 6 in standalone mode before using it in a DAW project.

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