Vital - Released

[Igro]

After experementing with making kicks, I can say it has a very clean response. My other two VERY popular synths couldn't do it so precisely. Nice.

[SLiC]

The envelopes are also very good (I refuse to use the word 'snappy'!

[audiot]

Can anybody make & post some softer sounds made with Vital? Would be interesting to hear something else than those very digital and harsh sounds the current Vital videos seem to offer...

I'm bit afraid to post some criticism between all that hype-comments but Vital is not the synth you want to use for warm or analogish sounds. There are wavetable synths that sound a lot better in that department (Hive, Zebra and even Serum).

Some people might say that Vital has it's own sound, or that it's proudly digital, but even in the upper parts of the spectrum it sometimes can sound a bit metallic or resonating, which is a bit unusual. BUT dont get me wrong! Vital has other strengths. It's an extremly flexible playground and can do stuff that no other synth can do. I will use it for fx sounds, sequenced stuff, plucks and maybe pads and atmos ... or it will collect dust in my plugin folder Hard to say at the moment, as i havent spent that much time with Vital.

[dionenoid]

I bought the early access, and after a few days of playing with it i can only confirm your thoughts. It is a fun synth to program, but soundwise it really doesn't hold up to the synths it's trying to imitate.

Why does everybody think it's trying to "imitate" some specific synth? It's not like Serum is unique or anything. Heck it wasn't even remotely "the first" when it comes to wave tables.

When it's hyped/marketed as being a "Serum killer" you can expect that ppl will compare the two

[zvenx]

Have you seen Matt or any official video or blurb that even mentions Serum?
rsp

[Tricky-Loops]

The "Vital, Serum Killer?" thread is deleted, so no way to find out who used the term for the first time. But I don't think it was some kind of marketing, rather a joke...

[WasteLand]

Can anybody make & post some softer sounds made with Vital? Would be interesting to hear something else than those very digital and harsh sounds the current Vital videos seem to offer...

I'm bit afraid to post some criticism between all that hype-comments but Vital is not the synth you want to use for warm or analogish sounds. There are wavetable synths that sound a lot better in that department (Hive, Zebra and even Serum).

Some people might say that Vital has it's own sound, or that it's proudly digital, but even in the upper parts of the spectrum it sometimes can sound a bit metallic or resonating, which is a bit unusual. BUT dont get me wrong! Vital has other strengths. It's an extremly flexible playground and can do stuff that no other synth can do. I will use it for fx sounds, sequenced stuff, plucks and maybe pads and atmos ... or it will collect dust in my plugin folder Hard to say at the moment, as i havent spent that much time with Vital.

Vital has certainly a quite different, or own character, what was to be expected, because of it's spectral waveshaping capabilities. i like that character, that is why i bought the early access, to support the developer and of course to work with it already.

i don't have serum, the "serum killer" (this i use ironically, yes, because it is KVR, but still KVR is a good place to be, if you skip some posts... as always..) i have is vast dynamics vaporizer2, i think the sound of vaporizer2 is on par with serum, still different beasts, but both are beasts.. (so i never say this one is better or worse, it depends on so many factors..)

Vital has it's own character, why always look for the serum killer, for the price? or even compare it, that is better or worse, it works differently than the other wavetable synths you mention.

but perhaps comparing them is also a way to learn what is special about a soft synth, it can have it's merits, of course.

I bought the early access, and after a few days of playing with it i can only confirm your thoughts. It is a fun synth to program, but soundwise it really doesn't hold up to the synths it's trying to imitate.

Why does everybody think it's trying to "imitate" some specific synth? It's not like Serum is unique or anything. Heck it wasn't even remotely "the first" when it comes to wave tables.

When it's hyped/marketed as being a "Serum killer" you can expect that ppl will compare the two

is it hyped or marketed as a serum killer?

EDIT: it isn't hyped, i see, i write slow and long....

it is in a quite different ballpark, as i mentioned already in this post. it has it's own character. that is why i like it.

in a strange way, i own 10 or more wavetable synths (or synths that have wavetable modules, like MSoundFactory, or voltage modular..), i was never that fond of them, until pigments... (yes waves codex i liked, and still like, yes waves codex!). because bitwig added a wavetable oscillator (that i only use in the poly grid), and ableton live 10 suite has a wavetable synth, my collection grew... now with vital... all have their merits..

i had not a lot of time to make a preset with vital (i like to make my own presets, and even my own wavetables), but with one of factory wavetables, i could hear, why i bought it, and i expected this sound, which i like.

there was also something about bread and butter... of course if you load a serum (or serum like) wavetable, that is quite analog, you get close i think, but i have the feeling, that isn't the purpose of vital. (but as always, even more experimental synths, i mention unfiltered audio LION, you can make with LION normal sounding sounds, but why? should you do that? o well i am not a judge, do it! of course! i am talking to myself , but even for LION me thinks preset packs are made that are more bread and butter.. for commercial goals, no problem, bread and butter is needed for -yes!- bread and butter!)

so, my own short experience, next days or weeks, i will have more time to play with it, i really like vital. the MPE implementation is great (important for me nowadays).

i like, my opinion, my assessment, personal assessment; i like vital. the metallic sound, which belongs to these kind of "waveshaping", and of course it is always connected to what you want, and what kind of music you make, i make, this synth will have a place in my music, how i make music, and how it sounds.

[liquidsound]

Killer?...
Why anyone would like to have a dead synth in their folder...

[focusrite]

Someone's making a lot of stuff up

[vurt]

Killer?...
Why anyone would like to have a dead synth in their folder...

to later raise an army of zombie synths.
obviously

[fisherKing]

Killer?...
Why anyone would like to have a dead synth in their folder...

it's the other synths that wind up dead, if vital is the killer

what i am liking about vital (so far) is, it's inspiring me to make music, the thing i most want from a synth plugin.

[SLiC]

I love the fact that an underground synth from a developer few had heard of with zero publicity or marketing and 1 thread on KVR is 'hyped'

[fisherKing]

it's great to find something that merits this much discussion, as vital does...

[V0rtex]

I am really excited, this looking like Serum on Steroids, I mean 3 OSC + Noise OSC, 3 filters, I am really looking forward to this synth, the unison section is really OP.
I Can not wait longer

[WasteLand]

Killer?...
Why anyone would like to have a dead synth in their folder...

to later raise an army of zombie synths.
obviously

vurt! i was in the process of designing and programming The Zombie synth, the killer synth, the synth that ends all synth, nickname: apocalypso. thank you for shooting it out!