Vital - Released

[digitalboytn]

It's just arranging 101...

Have a few different instruments available and blend them for a more interesting tonal pallete

[audiojunkie]

I’m going to copy a post I made on Mastodon. I truly believe this:

#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

[Synthman2000]

I’m going to copy a post I made on Mastodon. I truly believe this:

#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

I respect that opinion for your own music and approach and yet I completely disagree with it. I have 20 or so in use and each does something better than another subjectively. (possibly objectively) Collectively they probably cost less than a Korg M1 did when it was released.

So I will use the best synth for any given task, always.. choosing the best tool. Making the best results with sonics is the role of the producer (at least in the common and modern sense of the word) as in some gal or guy in front of a DAW screen doing the entire thing.

[fisherKing]

I’m going to copy a post I made on Mastodon. I truly believe this:

#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

congrats for believing in your own point-of-view! we all get to believe what we choose...

[revvy]

It was quite a hashtag heavy post too.

[vurt]

what is mastodon? im assuming it's not the band?

[revvy]

#I don’t #know

[Bartone]

what is mastodon? im assuming it's not the band?

#It #Is #NOT #Vital #!

[audiojunkie]

I’m going to copy a post I made on Mastodon. I truly believe this:

#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

I respect that opinion for your own music and approach and yet I completely disagree with it. I have 20 or so in use and each does something better than another subjectively. (possibly objectively) Collectively they probably cost less than a Korg M1 did when it was released.

So I will use the best synth for any given task, always.. choosing the best tool. Making the best results with sonics is the role of the producer (at least in the common and modern sense of the word) as in some gal or guy in front of a DAW screen doing the entire thing.

Yes, it’s just my own opinion. However, I don’t think we are so different (other than my Linux preference. I used to collect synths for their patches—a “Patch Kiddie” I believe the old term was. As I’ve researched synthesis types and synth architecture types, and I’ve learned how flexible modern synths can be with creating all sorts of sounds that cover a lot of ground that lesser synths did in yesteryear. A synth like Vital can do everything as synth like Charlatan can and much more. In fact, Vital can do most things really well if a person takes the time to learn the tool. However, Vital would have a harder time covering the character sound of classic synth architectures of the past. That’s where synths like Diva shine. You have 20 or so synths that have a something that stands out that makes that synth work for you. That still fits within the paradigm of those synths providing something special over other synths—character, if you will. Only, in that case the special something is the thing that they excel at. If it takes 20, or if it takes 30 synths to cover your specific needs as a music producer, that’s perfectly fine. The point is that we learn the tools we have and use the right tools for the job, rather than just collecting synths for their patches.

My post was a copy and paste from the Mastodon social media platform (like Twitter, but decentralized), because I was posting from my phone, and it was faster for an old man (me) than trying to type my thoughts one character at a time with my index finger (like I’m doing right now)

In retrospect, my post was originally pointed at the open source crowd, and this crowd is different. It probably would have been better for me over all to not seek the easy way out and just post a new post directed to the KVR crowd. If I were to write it again, I’d probably say something like:

“We should find a good set of plugins that work best for our style and the way we work, and learn them well, rather than just collecting synths for patches. I think Vital is a great example of such a took for me.”

I think that would have been a better message that a lazy copy and paste. But now my index finger hurts. How do you young guys get such high words per minute typing rates on your phones? LOL

[audiojunkie]

I’m going to copy a post I made on Mastodon. I truly believe this:

#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

congrats for believing in your own point-of-view! we all get to believe what we choose...

Absolutely! What I posted was only an opinion. Use what works for you! I just think Vital is an example of a great tool that a user would benefit from learning to use well, rather than just relying on patches others make. That was my point. It’s just an opinion among many. It’s ok to collect synthesizers for patches if you want. I just think having and learning to use a good set of tools (like Vital) would be beneficial.

[T-CM11]

How do you young guys get such high words per minute typing rates on your phones?

I have a robot that does it for me.

Because, why use a computer keyboard to type big texts - that would be silly!

[audiojunkie]

It was quite a hashtag heavy post too.

Sorry. It was not well worded for this particular audience as well. It was a lazy attempt to share an opinion while on my phone. I prefer my keyboard. An opinion tailored specifically for the KVR crowd, rather than a lazy copy/paste from a different social media site would have been much better.

[martinjuenke]

Sorry, but 199 pages are a bit too much to scroll through:
What brings Vital to the table when you already own Serum, Massive X and Hive?
Asking for a friend...

[martinjuenke]

PS: will Vital ever go on sale?

[audiojunkie]

what is mastodon? im assuming it's not the band?