Vital Synthesis

Create your own wavetable from an audio file by dragging it onto the oscillator, explore wavetable, vocoder, and pitch splice options, and sculpt motion with a position slider.

Explore how Vital's filters shape sound by adjusting cutoff and resonance across low pass, high pass, band pass, notch, and more, including dirtier analog and formant variants.

Explore filter routing and settings to sculpt sound with drive, mix, resonance, and key tracking; route oscillators to filter 1 and 2, and experiment with pan and motion.

This lecture offers a modulation overview in Vital, covering envelopes, LFOs, and velocity; it shows assigning modulators to destinations like filter cutoff and oscillator pan.

Explore how vital envelopes shape notes with attack, delay, hold, sustain, and release; route envelopes to volume, filter cutoff, and pitch across up to six envelopes.

Explore random modulators and apply them to oscillator pitch and filter cutoff, with tempo-synced rates. Compare noise types, sample and hold, and chaotic patterns to create evolving, non-repeating patches.

Explore other modulators for note, velocity, stereo, and random control in vital synthesis, enabling MPE setups, per-note tracking, velocity-to-filter and oscillator modulation, stereo wave table positioning, and spectral morph variation.

Explore the modulation matrix to view all assignments, remap mod sources like LFRs and envelopes, and shape stereo or bipolar modulation with draw tools and presets.

Use macro controls to drive multiple destinations with a single knob—wavetable position, spectral morphs like barcode and formate, and filters—adjust amounts in the matrix, and rename macros for clarity.

Explore advanced unison settings in Vital Synthesis, adjusting oscillator note track, unison blend, detuned range, stereo unison, table spread, spectral spread, distort spread, and wave morph for richer stereo textures.

Explore advanced settings in Vital Synthesis, including voice management with oldest or lowest notes and round-robin, MPE control, and tunings from well-tempered to pythagorean.

Discover chorus, compressor and multiband compressor, plus delay, distortion, and filters, then explore flange and reverb to polish your pitch with dynamic control.

Design a lush texture pad using slow attack and release envelopes on multiple wavetable oscillators with unison and detune, modulating the wavetable position and filter, plus chorus and reverb.

Explore frequency modulation synthesis to craft two bass sounds—deep house/techno and UK garage/dubstep—using efm between two or three oscillators, envelopes, and subtle unison.

Create a Detroit techno style chord with a sawtooth oscillator and unison minor chords, including minor ninth variation, then shape with envelopes, filter, and effects like chorus, delay, and reverb.

Develop a sequenced lead in vital by shaping oscillator one to a sine, applying a pitch lfo with a staircase pattern, and layering with filters and a ping-pong delay.

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