VITAL - Tips and Tricks

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Post your favourite VITAL tips here.

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Clean filter sound

With the default oscillator level setting you're getting a noticable amount of distortion with all filter types even when the drive knob is at zero:
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You can fix this easily by lowering the osc level:
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Note that the EQ in the fx section is NOT distorting.
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Tame the compressor

The default compressor setting is in a very aggressive Over The Top (OTT) style.

Using following settings a moderate 2:1 compressor with 10 ms attack and 60 ms release time can be achieved:

Set mode to single, turn off upward expansion by double click in the bottom green field.
Put attack to max and release to 30%. Drag mouse in the upper green field until the line density is like in the screenshot. Set threshold to taste. Use the band knob to adjust gain compensation.
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With the audio rate modulation capability you can have some fun. Think of a oscillator single cycle which is divided in parts and one half is a pure sind to give a clear fundamental and the other half is anything else, see ... following link with a "recipe" and a example patch
https://forum.vital.audio/t/splice-wave ... ation/4783
I did a few other experiments with vital in the past... you can check them out in the forum over there

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Choosing one of two envelopes by 50:50 chance (A demo of mine from Jan'21).
It makes use of the modulator transfere curves and clever mod routing...
https://forum.vital.audio/t/clever-patc ... ector/4702
The post in the vital forum contains a demo patch

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] Peter:H [ wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:45 pm With the audio rate modulation capability you can have some fun. Think of a oscillator single cycle which is divided in parts
Thanks, that's a nice trick. Just used this to build the "Elka Laserharp" sound (which is a sync'd PWM, where the pulse width is changing during one cycle due to cross mod).
JMJ Laserharp.zip
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Alternating Modulator

Using a LFO in point cycle mode you can get a cycling modulator from note press to next note press.

Link it to PAN for example, you get a ping pong sound which changes between L and R for each new note.
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I thought I'd give Vital's Text To Speech feature a try tonight. It didn't work. As it turned out, I have to be online to do that. Nope. Sorry. Cubase works best when Defender and WiFi are disabled. Not Vital's fault, though. I found out it merely accesses Google's Text to Speech features for its engine. Oh well. Would've been nice.
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Per default SERUM limits polyphony to one voice per note ("piano mode").
Is there a way to make VITAL to behave the same? VITAL is using round-robin-mode, so a new note is always triggering a new voice even if it's the same note again.

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