Exploring Vital: A Comprehensive Guide to a Free Synth Plugin

[00:00:07][Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] hui all right i think we are now live let's make sure youtube is working tonight because yesterday was a disaster and then we made a song about uh taking a dump in a chuck e cheese looks like we're good audio going all right i think we are all set good evening everyone it's your boy santa claus here and we are here to have fun with vital which is the new project from matt tytel who is the creator behind helm if you don't know about helm you really should it's one of the best free synths money you just can't buy and it's been really highly regarded for years so vital is the new project from matt who's actually in the chat somewhere around here which is really cool so hey matt and this is one of the biggest projects of 2020s hype train leaving the station and has been a huge effort for matt to develop and it's really really close to release it comes out on november 24th if you want to check it out you can go to vital.audio and sign up for the mailing list november 24th there's a free version there's paid versions i highly encourage you to support this project by paying for one of the bigger editions or subscribing which is only five dollars a month i believe uh it's a great deal all around great value for a [ __ ] great synthesizer um man the chat is pinging i also uh just before we get into it i just put out a new song today with euphonius which you can check out here you can sign up for vital's mailing list on the vital website here and there's a vital discord and everything i'm going to try and answer questions in the chat it's going to be hard to keep up a little bit but we will try so let's uh let's get in on all of this and maybe we can take a listen to the song about taking a dump in chuck e cheese just to show you what vital is really capable of and then we're going to dive in we're going to be doing some sound design tonight and just having some fun with it so let's uh let's check this thing out a little bit shall we hopefully my things are working all right so this is vital this is not what the website looks like but this is sign up vital.audio info on when it comes out it's got wave warping so there's a lot of really interesting warp modes if you're familiar with that in serum like fm from b am ben plus minus things like that but this has some cool spectral warping modes that allow you to mess with the partials of a waveform which is a little bit more of an advancing but it sounds really damn cool there's also the now super hyped text to wave table which we can play with this is super funny and i wasted a lot of time playing with this really great modulation visual feedback on just about everything you can modulate pretty much any parameter i mean this thing is essentially modular in a way and you can even modulate the modulators which is awesome lfos and mseg stereo modulation these are the plans you get free on november 24th 80 presets 25 wave tables plus is 25 bucks 250 presets of 70 wavetables pro is 80 400 plus presets 150 wave tables unlimited text wave table exclusive discord perks prioritize support and then subscription options for five dollars a month you get five dollars a month credit in the store subscriber only preset bank unlimited text wave table exclusive discord prioritize support first access to new fixtures and first access new plugins this is vital this is some stuff it does a lot of things it also does mpe which we're gonna play with let's see this thing so i will try and keep an eye on the chat for questions but uh it looks like my chat is actually totally frozen on my phone so that's good i'm gonna try and get the chat back up on my phone because that's just not working at all now way to be youtube way to be always killing it uh this is vital unless we want to show the pooping in a chuck e cheese song first i'll leave that up to you guys what do you want to see first you want to dive through some of these features or hear the song about how matt's a really good guy text to wave table nice it is very cool hopefully this is working still it looks like it is so yeah up to you guys do you want to you want to hear dumping a chuck e cheese or do you want to dive through some features i guess we'll wait because there's a bit of a lag he's a really good guy oh yeah there's like a huge lag apparently okay excellent play the cheese song vital first song first song okay i guess we'll let's just do it all right uh let's open that project oh man my my desk is like messing with my mouse this is a song using vital this song is called chuck this cheese i think is what i titled it and this uh features pretty much entirely vital everything except the vocals and the drums are vital um yeah so we've got a bunch of vitals in here let's open this up and give this project a play shall we i will warn you this is very very loud i put like 12 otts and a bunch of clippers on everything and it's amazing all of the presets in this song as well i'm going to be putting together as well as a bunch of other presets i've made and i will be releasing those along with my video about vital so let's uh let's play this project if my mouse will cooperate with me i'm calling my mom [Applause] is that beef in your pocket or is that your manager don't make me pull out my breadsticks [Music] [Applause] there's nothing like taking a dump in a chucky cheese [Music] hey [Music] some truly magical stuff [Music] [Music] sauce [Music] i have a [ __ ] [Music] chuck e cheese more like sucky cheese and of course the special shout out to matt thanks matt vital's really cool and everyone should go out and buy it and that is my new song called chuck this cheese you can find this on my audio page if one of my mods can link my audience for me um for those of you asking vital comes out november 24th go to vital.audio and you can sign up there to stay up to date there's a free option as well so you can get it for free to check it out if you like it i encourage you to get the paid versions which come with more stuff including the text wave table being unlimited in the bigger versions which is really fun so let's uh let's have some fun at this thing if my mouse would just roughly cooperate for five seconds this is driving me absolutely crazy today all right vital how does this thing work if i can mouse over it okay so we've got vital [Music] and uh vital has three oscillators a sample oscillator i'm trying to enable this but again my mouse is really not wanting to play today i don't know why i can't click anything are the batteries dying or is this just stupid nope there it goes so three oscillators it's a spectral wavetable synth we have a sampler here which has some noise and then some other samples you can drag and drop things in you can drag and drop things in to make a wave table there's a really fully featured wave table editor here as well if we dive in it's actually got these cool points here i'm gonna unplug my morph for a second i think this is what's messing with my mouse so we've got some points here which is a really cool way to kind of draw on a wave table as these kind of snap style grid bits which is really nice it's a keyframe based editor too for those of you that are familiar with phase plant this is really the same ish way that it works but vital has some different ways of doing things which is cool super easy to make wave tables and stuff uh ships with a couple but this is an early access version which is of note so everything i'm showing you today is subject to change between now and the release but we get some wave tables you'll get more if you buy the bigger versions you can make your own um a lot of great features unison 16 voices per oscillator really big detuning phase lock and randomization there's warp modes so we've got like this vocode here which i'm not entirely sure what that is doing i haven't really checked into all this format scaling which is kind of like a ben plus minus sort of thing smear which allows you to stretch and skew the waveform in some weird ways random amplitudes which is fun and this is kind of where the spectral stuff comes in um with the inharmonic stretch basically it is analyzing the waveform and pulling it apart and messing with it is what most of these do which is cool and then we've got our standard stuff like hard sinking we've got formant over here which is kind of the i think that's sync half window in serum uh quantize or kind of a rate reduction type of thing here for lo-fi sounds bend which is your classic bend you get the idea there's fm there's rm you can also do this from the sample um pretty much everything there uh you get your standard tuning stuff we've got tuning options here for transposition snapping which now i'm going to plug this back in to demonstrate this because it's kind of cool for those of you that are familiar with arteria's pigments you'll get the idea here this is a preset i made called hold my note bro and what i'm doing is using the lfos as kind of a step sequencer and i'm targeting the pitch of the oscillators but i'm using the snap to quantize these notes to a certain scale so i can hold down a single note and this will play a song based on these different lfos and lfo rates with the randomization here being sample and hold to kind of control the timing of each of these layers so we can just hold a note turn this way up because it's pretty [Music] quiet and you get the idea it's pretty cool i made another one today too uh called midnight at the arcade based around a similar idea so um other features wise we get envelopes here we can just click and drag for modulation so let's just kind of initialize once again modulation is really easy in this which is what i like about it the most honestly especially for mpe which i'll show off here in a minute but it's super simple so like if we want to modulate something with this envelope like let's say one of the two filters we get here which we should talk about the filters as well there's a ton of filters and they actually sound great so we have analog dirty lighter digital diode format comb and phaser so we get 12 and 24 notch notch spread band pass notch which is uh kind of like your morph multi-filters and serum i think is what that one's called uh ladder so there's basically different filter architectures if you don't know what this means dirty being more crunchy i guess ladder uh being a bit more i don't know smooth i guess i don't know how to describe that digital diode uh formant so we get like vowel filters comb uh so there's comb flange basically same stuff you'd see in something like serum including some unique ones like band spread comb which allows you to kind of have a band-passed comb effect we can also mix this into taste we can key track it we can control the routing of the oscillators so again this thing is essentially modular almost like it's a ridiculous amount of things you can do and then phasers so positive and negative and we can control the number of poles here the cutoff and the resonance but modulation is super simple we can just click and drag [Music] and there's our modulation [Music] this thing is also incredibly clean sounding it might be a little unapologetically digital but it is capable of a huge array of sounds which we'll dive into here in a bit but the modulation is super super fast to dive into so let's like oh i don't know let's go and modulate some effects here so let's grab the distortion and we'll change this to the down sample and let's tie an lfo to that if my mouse will work so the lfo is a really nice thing to work with here let's go to the paint mode and go to step we could change the grid size and just draw in kind of a weird sample and hold ask thing here you get the idea let's add a filter bring in some delay [Music] me [Music] my let's bring that down a bit and you get the idea we can make a lot of cool excellent stuff so let's talk about some actual sounds here uh let's talk about mpe so mpe for those of you that don't know is a way to express notes individually much like you could on something like a guitar so what we can do is take a note and move around with it and that will allow us to modulate things with pressure meaning after touch slide meaning the y position and pitch with the x position so we can flip this into mpe mode and we'll flip it into mpe mode in bit wig now if i play this and just move my finger around [Music] so it's great for sound design all around it's super super powerful um what's another fun one uh horror effects so this is kind of a horror sci-fi sound effect thing and yeah someone mentioned the visual feedback and that's one of the other things i think is great about this especially if you're newer to like sound design and synthesis it's a super easy synth to look at and understand like what the [ __ ] is happening because when you get something this powerful and this deep that can be a bit risky because it might be hard to understand you know like i would never recommend a beginner get something like falcon you know just because it's like there's too much happening but this has a lot happening but it's in a very controlled environment that's easy to understand and tweak yeah let's uh let's throw another limiter on here oh i restarted my computer that's why there's not a limiter on the session whoops sorry about that so this is horror sound effects with mpe [Music] all one patch uh let's do one more like cool mpe one here oh i've got a neurobase that's mpe so this is kind of an fm thing we've also got of course the like ott equivalent in here which is great for this kind of stuff [Music] so that's a good one um yeah just incredibly fun to explore with mpe i've got some of the bases from the chuck e cheese track [Music] uh this is a patch i made earlier today called ps1 vibes which is kind of a classic old school video game soundtrack [Music] sound [Music] um this is another one called psxpad.exe which is another kind of old school video game sound this is actually using the text to wave table which we'll talk about in just a second this is this is all internal as well there's no extra processing here [Music] so that's all internal um here's a base [Music] here's a cool mpe uh this should be mpe yeah this is like a engine sound [Music] so that one's fun um and uh let's see is there anything else that's like super worth showing here oh i made a snare i guess we'll do that and then we'll talk about text to wave table so all internal and uh pretty pretty [ __ ] cool i mean this thing is worth the hype absolutely it is really really damn good and especially the fact that it is free for whatever reason matt came from outer space and decided to give us this kind of thing for free super thumbs up so matt if you're still hanging around personally thank you this is going to make a big difference in the music community i'm absolutely sure of that as a sound design tool as well absolute goddamn lutely picked this thing up let's do text to wave table um dj grumpy gills and i want this to be australian there's a bunch of different accents here which is i don't understand how that works but it's super super cool so dj grumpy gills go now let's grab an lfo make it an envelope really quick so the lfos can be envelopes as well i kind of forgot to point that out um there we go that'll work okay so now we just got to slow this down all right let's bring this dj grumpy gills dj grumpy gills so that's pretty cool and if you want to if you want to make like a beat tag just throw ott and a reverb and like a soft distortion on there dj grumpy gills that is incredible um let's do i like uh do the cha-cha like a [ __ ] girl from was that anchorman but let's make this one i like to do british i like to do the charger like a [ __ ] girl [Laughter] let's do one more uh someone someone pick an accent for me someone pick an accent from the list and we'll do one more because this is super funny like i i seriously lost like probably two hours doing this if you use vocode spectral warp it'll keep deformance in the right place ah okay gotcha that makes sense russian okay russian um what's a russian thing in russia the bear fights you and let's grab a vo code okay let me turn off that ott for just like one sec in russia they will fight as you in russia they will fight as you that's so sick okay now with ott in russia yes um i wanna fight a t-rex okay so that's super cool right let's talk about modulation because some of the modulation options in this are sick so right now we have an lfo on a filter on a saw wave going through a low pass so we can right click on this modulation and make it bipolar but what's really cool is we can right click this and make it stereo so it's independent which is wicked for modulation stuff so if we did something a bit more spicy like a comb filter or something or like one of these flanges we can also go in the matrix here so we can enable this by clicking the stereo we can also morph the modulation which is basically like tweaking the response curve but what's even more insane is we can actually modulate all of this so we can modulate that and i just modulated that but now i can modulate the modulation of that so i'm modulating the modulation of the modulation that is so cool right so yeah that's uh that's some vital stuff let's see what kind of questions and stuff we've got is this free it is this is a free synth and if you want to find more information you can go to vital.audio to sign up for the mailing list this comes out november 24th which is in [Music] uh i don't know my mom's a math teacher but she i'll call my mom later and ask how many days that is november 24th go sign up for it vital.audio you get all this and more for free but i do encourage you to support this with one of the paid options including the subscription which is only five bucks a month uh plus is only 25 bucks that comes with a lot more presets and wave tables unlimited text-to-wave table and all the goodies comes in at 80 bucks or the subscription option includes all the goodies as well including some extra little things for new features and new plugins so i highly encourage you to support this project matt is a super super cool dude um like i said the creator of helm and you know helm is kind of legendary at this point and i have a feeling vital is going to be even bigger so yeah vital.audio if one of my mods could drop that link for me so cheers to matt because holy [ __ ] this thing is amazing now i've got oh yeah there's a vital discord as well go check that out so 11 days okay so we have two options one i figured we could spend some time tonight designing some sounds in vital because like i said all of these presets that i'm making i'm going to be including with the video that i put out so we can work on some sounds here and play around or i did start another sketch of a track just in case things went that direction so we could kind of play with the track here what does unlimited text-to-wave table mean yeah let's do let's do some questions for a minute actually before we get into that so we can play with a new track and make some noises with vital or we can just stick to pure sound design and vital up to you guys so uh let's do some questions here for a minute um unlimited ttw so that's unlimited text to wave table um i'm not super clear on this i don't know what the limitations are um but yeah there's gonna be some kind of limitation i believe it's maybe the number of requests per day but i don't really know offhand um but yeah to get unlimited you have to get the bigger versions of it did that one dollar plug-in ever come out that was uh genesis pro i believe is what you're thinking of it came out and it didn't go well loot points on the lfo is really cool yeah it did take 10 years to make it serum 2.0 in a way i don't really agree with like it's the serum killer and you know this is gonna blah blah like i mean you know serum is still gonna have its place as vital will have its place is vital the only synth you need no is vital the greatest scent ever made no not really does it have one of the best text-to-wave table features in the known history of the universe abso [ __ ] lutely it does it's just part of a toolkit it's not going to be you know the ultimate synth because if that existed we would all have it but vital is really damn good so we want to make sound sound design sound design mousey too much chucky apparently what is your favorite shark um i think they're called thresher sharks they have a really long tail fin and it was like really really cool i thought it was awesome when i was a kid pro version is still pretty cheap yeah i mean even the most expensive version of vital is cheaper than a lot of the other like big synths out there you know so it's a hell of a deal five per day okay yeah so it was like a per day limitation um is the modulation only four pieces or will add itself after using all four yes it does add extra modulations except it only goes up to a certain number i think i haven't tested all that i think the randoms are limited to four and the lfos are maybe like eight excuse me something like that cpu load um cpu load is not bad at all it it uses some special stuff to make unison not as cpu heavy but everything i'm showing here is an early access copy so this doesn't necessarily represent the final cpu use um and i'm also on a really beefy computer so you know your mileage may vary obviously i'm sure when this does release there will be system requirements and recommendations and whatever but comparatively speaking this is minimal cpu i mean a lot of my other synths use more can you make the additive partials in harmonic there is like an in harmonic stretch mode we can play with that modulator count i don't know offhand like i said it adds more but only up to a certain point can you import wave tables you can we can do that we can totally do that so we can drag this in we can drag audio in you can make your own all sorts of stuff sound design sound design all right let's see if there's any other questions here and then we'll dive in text text-to-wave table only available in the pro version i believe it's available in all versions or maybe like the the light and up or whatever it was um and then there's like a request limitation eight lfos and four randoms yeah that sounds right uh subscription like a rent to own i don't know how that works random letters let's do that really quick that sounds funny i tried to do like unicode characters yesterday and it didn't let me do that and i was a little disappointed all right um let's just make this regular old the king's english and see what this spits out oh wait can i do like period question mark and stuff huh all right let's try that s f w t h a y f s f w t h a wire f lalalala the most primitive form of like the reese base wobble right there that's amazing are people complaining about this free synth people want to complain about everything because everyone knows everything about everything on the internet uh can i drop all the serum and phase plant wave tables in here probably i don't see any reason why you wouldn't i think there's like a i remember reading on a dsp form somewhere that there's like a standardization to wave tables now i think maybe steve duda or someone was like we should institute standards so i'm i would guess that vital follows whatever those standards were um matt would be the guy to ask does any harmonic info get saved in wave tables uh you can resample it to itself i guess if that's what you're asking so you could like make a wave table into itself with the enharm monasticity spectral time skew i've messed with a bunch of the wart modes but yeah uh physical modeling stuff sure we could do something with that i actually did a uh physical modeling sound earlier um i did some brass like trap blam [Music] [Music] um there's another one in here that's actually a factory preset uh pluck string so this is like car plus strong synthesis with the band uh comb filter using noise [Music] so that's pretty cool you could do some pretty fun stuff um and yeah like physical modeling in this you get three filters technically so you have this filter this filter um you can also sync the delay so you can use this in seconds mode with a high feedback as a resonator and we could key track that so let's grab the note here [Music] and can i mess with this but that doesn't really scale at one volt per octave like you would normally but we could go in there and then add like another uh comb filter and key track that bad boy [Music] obviously this is way out of tune but you get the idea um it does have a wave table editor yes on what software is it available this is available for mac windows and linux which is really really cool because not a lot of stuff is available for linux these days um how's polymer i haven't downloaded the beta i have no idea this is sick it really is um is cloud seed really that hype dude do not come after my lord and save your cloud seed no son all right here's a saw with a low pass so this is this is your brain let's turn this up a wee bit so this is your brain and this is your brain on cloud seed which is free and open source and only available for windows [Music] so so yes cloud seed is absolutely worth the hype trap beats trying to catch up on all this thankfully i just found it well hey welcome to the party arpeggiator great question that is from uh zhang music sorry if i [ __ ] up your name i went to public school i don't read good uh so in arpeggiator we could uh make this into a sequencer so let's let's just re-init here and let's use this basic saw wave let's change this to a grid of 16 steps with 12. and we'll go into paint mode and turn this into a 16 step sequencer which is really really easy to do let's just move this around all right now let's feed that let's go back to the root note a couple times all right let's feed that to our pitch and let's right right-click and enter a value let's just make this one octave so 12 semitones will enter a value of 12.

[00:41:11]let's go into the pitch quantization here and just make this a standard major scale now one of the things of note here as well is that this transposition snapping function is actually relative or global relative meaning if i play ac right now this is going to be c major if i play an a it's actually going to be a major even though those are not the notes of a major but if we global snap this it will snap to those exact note values being c d e f g so on and so on so let's slow this down and play a sequence all right cool so let's just speed that up let's maybe do the same thing over here so we'll make an eight step sequence with a value of like six or something we'll paint step mode and we can use this to control the volume so let's just map that to the level right there and give this a play so it doesn't have a traditional arpeggiator but you can make one so by doing that you know we could just do a value of 12 and make like a minor arpeggio really easily um japanese text wave table maybe modulation to bipolar yeah so you can do any modulation bipolar which makes physical modeling a lot easier oh alchemy's here what's going on all right i'm trying to catch up on chat here i think we're way backed up man it is like impossible to keep up with chat uh okay i think we're mostly caught up here okay anyways i'm gonna try and keep an eye on questions here as well um yeah let's uh let's mess with the pitch quantization thing a bit more let's play with another patch here let's just make three sine waves and let's do some randoms i'll grab the third random here if my mouse will let me oh my god i need to just give up and buy a wired mouse this just doesn't work all right let's make a minor thing let's make this uh root four and five and then we'll do root minor third five minor seven and let's just play this now let's change the noise to sample and hold and let's change the frequency of this one to be a bar quarter notes and then dotted quarter notes how about that and let's maybe up the tempo just a bit here [Music] all right now let's add some unison and let's change the unison mode to power chord here [Music] so i'm just holding down one note this whole time [Music] let's do another sample and hold here [Music] let's move that one before the delay [Music] and get a let's get a little bit of that good old vital reverb in here [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] yeah just holding one note so that's pretty fun um and yeah just super super powerful so let's just turn this into kind of a pad because that's what i do let's just let's just crank the reverb and see what this turns into okay so that's a bit much still sounds good and let's put ott on it because nothing [Music] matters [Music] make a dub base i already did i'll show you one i'll save this i'm going to call this sparkle tits this is a pad i guess um comments wow glitter glittery all right um a dub bass i made uh oh i flipped these around um i thought i'd just call it yeah deep dub bass and this thing will this thing will move some serious air through my speakers oh i got painting mode on whoopsie daisy [Music] and slow that down so yeah something like that um let's talk about that sampler actually let's play with that for a minute what was this one oh just assorted neuro vomit okay let's uh let's try some oh someone asked what does the pencil next to the wave do so that opens the wave table editor so we can go in here and create our own wave tables really easily there's kind of a point based system we also get access to the harmonic partials as well as their phases so if we uh i don't know if there's a way to init a wave table but whatever um so this is a sine wave so we could draw in a sine wave and add some harmonics and then rotate the phases of those to make kind of a church organ [Music] [Laughter] so that's that um you can also drag sounds in uh i don't know if i have something just sure whatever and we can drag this in if my mouse will work damn you just drag it on here so there's wavetable vocode and pitch splice let's just do wavetable mode so it just resynthesizes things let's do a kick drum vocode mode interprets things a little bit differently pitch splice mode also interprets things a little bit differently so you can get different results with the each of these much like you can with the uh import modes and serum let's just make a yoyo let's flip this to a high pass filter something something fm and get the output of filter one into this and a comb filter or something and let's send this into filter one as well [Music] maybe we'll move that filter oh my god now taking donations for a damn wired mouse jesus and then we'll fm that bad boy no we won't do that that sounds stupid grab that actually let's use an eq [Music] it has a notch filter here make that bipolar and make like a quick dimension expander type effect [Music] i kind of want to do [Music] something involving that as well [Music] something along those lines good god my mouse let's give some unison on that [Music] [Music] one two one maybe we'll just make that an envelope [Music] and then bring in a bit of noise [Music] yeah let's envelop that noise then [Music] i'm an idiot [Music] there we go something like that let's save that uh what is this called chunky cheese don't eat the yellow mouse i don't know whatever it's a base you get the idea so yeah that's importing wave tables it's super super easy uh show off some of these unison options sure um have i missed any other like major questions here [Music] that's so like addictive more than one instance of effects no not at the moment um why you deleted your discord i still have a discord you should be able to join that down below um make hyper growls yeah right um let's see if i missed any other crazy questions i don't think so okay uh what was i gonna say is there an fx version no but maybe someday when can i get this november 24th yep let's see maybe we should take another questions break because i'm like way backed up unison modes let's do unison modes and then we'll take a question break okay um let's just rein it here and let's use a saw because this will be easier to hear so right now we have one voice we get up to 16 detuned to zero 20 phase we can rotate the phase as well as control the phase randomization which that's really useful for like zappy [Music] things and also excuse me for you know that kind of thing it's also really useful for fm because rotating the phase with fm while locking it in place can make a lot of differences to a sound in case you didn't know that uh so within the advanced tab here we have controls for the oscillators including note tracking so we can bypass that and just get a fixed frequency meaning this is capable of both linear and exponential fm which is really damn powerful uh high resolution wave table i don't know what this does yet i haven't looked into it but it has an option for that i assume this maybe i don't know interpolates things smoother so uh yeah unison mode stack uh we have unison just regular old unison let's get the phase randomization back up [Music] we have center drop 12 [Music] so this is like a sub-oscillator 24 being two octaves down octave we get an octave up so just this is just one note so we can get those big trancy things um let's turn on note tracking so that's fun uh two octaves so double [Music] you know whatever you can do that kind of stuff power chord meaning a fifth that's really really great for pad sounds just to get that kind of complex thing going on just makes your pad sound really really good to add a fifth oh boy uh 2x power chord so the fifth goes up an extra octave major chord which if we maybe drop that down just a bit here we get a major chord there might be easier to hear with a sine wave actually and we'll just not detune that so much so the d tuning is actually relative as well so right now we just have a perfect major chord but if we start to detune that's detuning the voices so that way we can get kind of wide wobbly things minor chord harmonics which is kind of like additive up to 16 partials and then we've got odd harmonics so we can get regular or square so basically saw or square type harmonics and then the detune range controls how much possible detuning we get so if we go to harmonics and drop the stereo width we get some really crazy stuff um yeah so that's just a lot of fun over here as well this is something of note um let's just reinitialize and go to a wave table of some kind so maybe not that one um just a wave table okay so you can hear the difference here between the start and end point if we go in and add some unison voices here and go to the advanced tab we can spread out the position in the wave table of each voice [Music] make that mono so if we go to basic shapes actually this would be the best way to demonstrate this so we've got no table spread right now all of the voices are a sine wave let's spread this out [Music] a little hard to hear but you can see in the scope we've got more shapes going on we can also spread the spectral distortion and the phase slash warp mode distortion here so if we had a formant on this and then let's say the uh the smear on that we could go in here and spread this out across the voices so right now we have a bunch of sine waves and everyone's happy let's drop the phase randomization [Music] ah man that's really loud now start spreading the spectral distortion and the spread and stereo [Music] okay um i think that's a pretty big overview of like all the features and stuff let's take a minute to answer some questions shall we um okay for the sake of time i'm not gonna scroll back just because there's way too much chat so uh if anyone has questions let's take a question break now you can ask your questions i will answer if you have questions about vital you want to see something specific or whatever let me know now is your time helm is dope helm is really really wicked the stereo effect is amazing yeah no the unison modes are insanely powerful it's a lot of fun hi what's up not much how's it going happy friday [ __ ] thursday happy thursday vital has a lot of tricks up it sleeves it does melodic rhythm oh god i wonder if that's even possible i mean it is it'd just be terrible let's narrate a short story sometime yeah let's do that totally we'll just read the the manual for vital um best free synth out there without question yeah helm is damn damn good uh is there a beta there is but it is no longer open so you gotta wait now until november 24th um let's plug that link in the chat while we're up here for those of you interested in picking up vital or finding more information you can go to vital.audio to sign up for the mailing list this comes out in a couple days and you can grab it for yourself and do all this stuff and more what is your favorite feature my favorite feature personally uh i don't know it's kind of tied i love that it's mpe supported just because now that i have an mpe controller that's like my life when i'm doing like complex sound design um and i love instruments that can be really expressive and i think vital has kind of a two-fold answer here and that these two things are very related i love the mpe features because i just love mpe but one of the other things i love about it is the interface design because as you saw it's so fast to modulate things and with mpe that's especially powerful because mpe in a lot of other synths and applications is pretty [ __ ] tedious so like i want to make an mpe patch but it's a nightmare to sit down and actually do that because you know the the way i have to modulate things is really complex but vital makes it super easy just to drag and drop and really start making patches that i don't know it feels like i always compare to like playing my guitar like you know i can express on a guitar a lot easier than i can on a synthesizer without having to dive through some mod matrix and vital really gets that right much like helm did with the way you know the modulation works of just drag and drop so i think yeah mpe and just the mod abilities you know the way that that's designed is really really cool are you going to release your presets i will i'm going to be doing a video about vital soon um hopefully maybe going to film that this weekend if i can shuffle some things around and when i release my video i'm also going to release all my presets i've been making for this what is my opinion on vitals pricing i mean i think it's great even the most expensive tier because i know people are like it's 80 but you know i mean serum is 150 falcon is what 400 um omnispheres 500 uh voltage modular i guess is sort of similar in a way voltage modular is a 149 for the core version for mpe support and all that um and i mean this thing is basically modular phase plant is and feel free to correct me if i'm wrong in these prices i think i'm right phase plan is either 189 or 199 i think maybe that's serum maybe phase plants 150 something like that but anyways i mean even the most expensive tier of vital with how powerful this thing is is well worth the asking price because one it supports matt directly which i think is great and matt more than deserves this kind of recognition and support from the community for putting in this level of effort it's just absolutely [ __ ] crazy to think that he just sat down and was like you know what i'm gonna make this and i mean it's free too so you don't even have to pay i mean if you want to just get this for free and you want to make sounds and you want to do sound design you can absolutely do that if you want to support the project or you don't want to do sound design you could buy the basic tier you know that's only what 25 bucks or subscribe for five bucks a month i don't know if that's a rent to own or not but at any rate i think the prices are more than fair especially considering that you know this is kind of a labor of love and i think it deserves a bit of support from everyone foghorn bass god rhythm beats tutorial i don't really make rhythm but i don't know the the track i was working on earlier today with vital not the chuck e cheese one a different one i mean that's sort of rhythm-ish sampled stuff orchestral scores uh how would you sum up this vst yeah we can do some sample stuff here in a minute how do i sum up this vst um if i had to give you an elevator pitch vital is a very capable subtractive fm wave table and sound design platform with semi-modular capabilities and deep modulation without the headache i guess that would be my kind of one liner pitch it's really well laid out it's really well thought out and it packs a hell of a lot of features for anyone you know if you're if this is like day one this is a great sense it's really easy to understand because it's so visual it's also so easy that you know i think anyone can get into it and really make some stuff or you know just [ __ ] around with presets there's nothing wrong with that you know but at the other end you know if you're more advanced or whatever this is an insanely capable instrument that doesn't fight you back and that's what drives me nuts about certain synthesizers and vsts is the layout or whatever is so convoluted that it's kind of a pain in the ass to use them and this is one of the very few synthesizers that gets it right and i think that's maybe why people keep calling this the serum killer and that the interface is so well thought out because serum and you know serum phase plant vital and you know kind of other things around that area have some of the best uis in the game because they're so visual and so easy that anyone can figure it out so you know i think that's the the big thing is that it's super easy if you are more into this kind of stuff to really dive into the nitty-gritty and make some powerful patches tyler love your vids they help so much i'm glad to hear that map the lfo to the frame like the lfo to the lfo itself i don't know if you can do that but maybe could vital be a good alternative to serum absolutely i mean it doesn't do all the same things but it does a lot of very similar things key tracked lfos sure we could do that audio rate lfos not quite yet now arpeggiator no but i did show that a little bit earlier you can make an arpeggiator with the lfos by creating like a step sequencer type thing okay key tracked lfos drops on the 24th more versions available for a false small fee yeah let's look at that really quick here just because we haven't done that in a minute so these are the versions of vital that are available here we have basic which is vital with 80 presets 25 wave tables plus for 25 bucks vital 250 presets and 70 wave tables pro for 80.

[01:13:17]vital 400 plus presets 150 wave tables unlimited text to wave table discord perk prioritize support subscription for five dollars a month includes everything in pro as well as first access to new features and first access to new plugins which has me curious i kind of wonder what's next here for all this vital compared to serum i mean you know i think they're kind of very similar things i don't think one is really better than the other but um you know i think they both have really good uis i think the third oscillator as a proper oscillator helps a lot in vital that's one of my pain points with serum a lot of the time is that i wish the sub oscillator was able to be something else um you can sort of get around that with the noise oscillator but you know it's not quite the same so you know a third oscillator i think really helps the sample oscillator is also really fun so very similar but different i don't know ableton has mpe it does yeah the new 11 update what's the mpe controller you're using this is a censol morph i did a video kind of overview about this thing maybe a month ago you can check that out for all the details it's really really cool whoops it also has different overlays so i can put like a beat overlay on here and just swap them like on the fly which is really really cool and it's really cheap too i really love this thing um plus support matt yeah so i mean you know if you buy this you're supporting that which more than well deserved mpe stand for mpe stands for midi polyphonic expression let's make an mpe patch why not midi polyphonic expression means that i can make notes do individual things a really easy way to demonstrate this let's go into advanced mpe is on mpe is on all right so i can play two notes here and i can bend these individually by moving my fingers which that sounds absolutely horrible now let's try a filter i'm going to use let's use slide here now what slide means is moving my finger up and down on the key on the y-axis so if i bring this down and i'll just show you what i'm doing here so if i do this and move up that opens the filter but i can do this for each of these notes so i can play like a chord here and move the individual notes of that [Music] chord [Music] and that is a really powerful sound design tool all right um thank you for all the great information you were awesome well thank you for watching i really hope everyone's enjoying this stream glad to see so many people here too is crazy um hashtag support matt yes free matt down with chuck e cheese while we're at it let's see what do you think about iris too i think iris 2 is really really fun the cpu usage is just really bad 189 for serum that sounds right yeah let's see what else was i going to do key tracked lfos right um and then the sample oscillator trying to see if there's anything else here how many lfos ah god i think we counted that earlier um i think it's eight lfos four envelopes and four randoms something like that yeah eight lfos four randoms 64 lfos that would be ridiculous um let's see is there any other like major questions i'm just gonna move on rapid compared to vital to completely different things um let's see there any other big questions taylor pearson how's it going is there a built-in auto-tune that would be amazing there is the text to wave table so in a way you could kind of do that um the mod remap sure i like your soothing voice well thank you really hyped for this dude me too i've been hyped for vital for i don't even know how long at this point so i'm really really happy matt hooked me up with a copy ahead of time to check out do you sing i don't i used to sing a little bit in like a country band i can do a pretty damn good johnny cash and that's about it and i used to be in like some metal bands back in the day so when i do like i used to do like screaming stuff and i sound like a [ __ ] grizzly bear um okay yeah let's dive back in here and start playing with some features okay so like lfos that are really really fast let's do that really quick just to show that that's fun let's grab an lfo [Music] so let's let's actually hold on let's back the [ __ ] up okay this is a really slow lfo at 128 seconds per cycle this is a bit faster of an lfo now let's bring this up even faster [Music] and we're now bringing this up into the audio range where if we played this lfo directly out we could hear it which i don't know if we can do with this can we make the filter self-oscillate probably not not without like a tiny impulse maybe so that's now an audible note that we can hear okay so we can make these lfos really fast now what we're effectively getting into once we switch into key tracked mode is fm because we're essentially because this is our our fine tune and our course tune so if we play this can turn this into an actual oscillator i'm gonna turn that way up which sounds pretty bad in this example but it's really really fun so we can get just some extra kind of fme capabilities from this so let's try maybe a more common example which would be tuning filter fm up a [Music] fifth stop that [Music] and then add a second filter with an envelope [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] why is [Music] please [Music] yes so as you can see that is a very powerful feature um really really cool trick if you haven't done filter fm busy works beats no way how are you busy works beats you are a proper legend my friend i have been watching your channel for many many moons now so hey thanks for stopping in hope you're enjoying the stream if you have any questions at all you let me know no [ __ ] though anyways um let's see do we have any other questions here hope someone's going good night good night um sing no i definitely definitely don't want to hear me sing i get my wife in here she's a [ __ ] powerhouse she used to sing johnny cash songs with me um did i miss any other questions here lfo oscillators yes that's that's what that is it's pretty cool um because lfo if you don't know what it stands for is low frequency oscillator so it's a pitch it's just so low that we can't hear it because it's way way way low frequency hence the name low frequency oscillator so you know when we speed that up to a certain rate we can actually start to hear it and with key tracked lfos they essentially become another oscillator that isn't coming directly out so we don't hear that as a triangle waveform but rather we can use it as an audio rate modulation oh yeah i guess we could um venus do you like to make a ton of pads pads and atmosphere are my thing man um i came for his voice radio voice for sure yeah maybe you know if matt is still watching this if you want to hire me to read the entire vital manual as an audio book as an exclusive discord perk hit me up i will absolutely do that hoping to see wavetable with real instrument samples yeah let's uh let's do that really quick um let's grab like a uh i think i have some sfz files yeah let's turn like a yeah flute that's gonna be really really high pitch though [Music] so that's maybe not the best example there we go let's do so i think this is maybe a situation where high resolution wavetable would be beneficial but maybe not maybe that's only dividing it into 512 frames if i had to guess i don't know but we can smooth that out a bit and i wonder can we make like a text a wave table like ah [Music] and just kind of put that as like a uh oh no okay it's not my internet connection damn maybe i ran out of them a lot sad but anyways let's add a seventh or a fifth rather [Music] so we can do that um we can maybe even do like some basic modal synthesis because we can do some comb filters does that want to work maybe not maybe we have to go into like oh the filters don't oscillate then so let's note track that and make that not so insanely brittly harsh [Music] kind of make like a bell almost and put ott on it and a reverb let's maybe try like a really basic sample so this is c4 and let's key track the sample [Music] so we could probably bring that up a bit [Music] that's kind of fun uh let's not have so much low end there we go that's neat and then i want like a little bit of filter envelope on [Music] that do it just needs to be brighter [Music] pretty neat stuff uh can you use sidechaining to use vinyls of vocoder no i don't believe so um but that maybe would happen in a future update um wavetable editing tricks i would i honestly would but wave tables it's kind of a really complicated subject so maybe i'll do like a wave table design video in the future in some more detail you a goat thank you so much busy works beats dude you are the [ __ ] greatest absolutely love your channel um recent pads your master of these sounds thank you um spectral time skew notch filtering and ott we could have a sick neurobase yeah uh preset to wave table function i actually have but i can't get it to work in the right way and i think that's because the fm whoops that's not what i want i think that's because the fm in here is actual fm and not phase distortion because what i was trying to do was render like some of my neurobase shots into actual wave tables but the phase doesn't seem to be consistent and i maybe i need to ask matt about this but what i was doing like was fm from 2 here and if i make like a really basic fm patch of just something like this and i resynthesized a wavetable the phase is off so then the phase rotates and skews and gets all weird so it is a cool feature but i can't really get it to work in the way i thought it would um but making wave tables isn't too hard so not worried about it the vital manual copper sats how is it going uh future house chord sounds uh i guess we could do something with that so let's do that make this maybe something along these lines i don't really know future house all that well but i'm guessing it's so for those of you that don't know chorus and delay are very similar things we can actually use this to make a really basic reverb with a higher feedback so this is a great way to fake like a dimension expander [Music] let's grab just like a basic arpeggiator and set this to like chord mode [Music] okay that's like way too fast let's do 110 and something something along those lines 110 at eighths and then just a little touch of reverb in there [Music] uh i don't know what's like some record [Music] stuff [Music] you know i i don't really know what that is but that maybe that's right it even matter once you put into 23 second reverb no then everything becomes good um yeah i don't know maybe i did run out of text to wave table i'll have to ask matt um i don't know i might have run out i don't know how the demo works or if this is a demo or not late night talk show yeah welcome back everyone to sound design with cameron how are you doing um let's see audio track vice side chain to vital i don't think so i don't think it reports side chain to the host let's find out it does not so no um oh no [ __ ] c ray beats how's it going man let's see have we got any other questions and stuff here do a moog type sound oh yeah that's one thing worth mentioning so it's not just ott this is actually a low band high band high band compressor and single band compressor so that's nice um let's see if we got any other questions and such hyper saws with the wave table stretching modes like future bass hyper saws probably um i don't know maybe with the i don't know what mode i'm thinking of yeah the harmonic and inharmonic um random amplitudes could man not really um oh yeah phase dispersion which is not super clear um [Music] so if we went to the the saw of basic shapes yeah i mean you could do that um see i guess that's kind of a hyper saw and that looks like that's most of our questions here so um how's the testing going it's great i love this thing i've been having so much fun with this um i don't know if i have any like super fun presets this triplet thing [Music] that one's fun uh squeetastic which is like a disgusting base um optimus prime swing uh kick drum i made with the sampler and ring modulation you can make pretty realistic like skeuo morphic physical modeled things um cry man [ __ ] [Music] for those of you that watch the office and cinematic squidglets which i think i showed off earlier i guess it doesn't save mpe in the patch that seems like a bug maybe oh god now i can't get bit wig to let me go in here and enable mpe again there we go i think i showed that one earlier um yeah so i guess that's kind of everything um and that was some sound design i kind of want to just play with something for a minute though grumpy gills 3 return of the grump this is some stuff using vital someone hit me up on discord comment in a hardcore kick or like a hard style kick oh yeah sparkle tits i made sparkle tits on the stream drum synthesis is great with vital it is um are the onboard effects any good everything you were hearing was the on-board effects i mean literally everything i just showed was all internal there was no extra processing on any of that so they're really really damn good same guy that made helm it is it is matt tytel and he's a legend uh can you import custom waveforms to the lfos i don't think so um but you can make presets like you can there's presets for the lfos but you can't like drag something in and turn it into an lfo no but there's a bunch of presets and you can save your own um and that goes for most things as well like there's your presets here presets for the msegs um you know pretty pretty cool all around there uh great demo thanks no problem at all so yeah i guess let's maybe play with this for just a minute and then i think i'm about done but i've got one more drink here so let's let's play with this and do this stuff in action what was i doing oh yeah it was really loud it was really loud i forgot about that good god [Music] so let's maybe noodle with that for a minute let's make a b drop here let's just add some more vitals and by the way all of those bases are all vital there's no added processing to any of these except a clipper on the group to sum them together a bit [Music] let's do [Music] i don't think i used that yet let's do let's do something with that [Music] and then we'll insert another vital um let's make a new patch so what's our drop so far here we need like a pre-drop vocal i need more beer and then we'll make a pre-drop vocal let's answer questions what's his daw i'm using bit wig what's your opinion on using presets and bass music my opinion on presets is that your audience does not give a single [ __ ] don't care what other producers think because people are going to [ __ ] like if you use presets you're dumb you know there's people like me out there that make the presets for a reason i use presets myself a lot of the time because you know i make my own presets so i save them and use them again later there's absolutely nothing wrong with presets tweak them a bit by all means you know make them your own but they exist for a reason anyone who says that presets are dumb is just an elitist dumbass are your presets only available at the full vital my presets are not included but i will include them with my video uh that i'm gonna put out about vital soon genres you think would be best for pretty much anything really um i think maybe the weak points would be like some really classic analog sounds because this is a very very digital sounding synth um but even then i mean you can get some nice analogy tones out of it burps for vocals oh by the way i should say this entire stream will be reposted uh later if you want to watch back through because i've already answered a lot of the questions and stuff does text wave table sync to the clock um you can sync it with like an lfo and stuff to make it like speak yeah the best outlook on presets i've heard well good yeah i'm gonna tell you right now anyone who says they have an answer is probably just trying to sell you something yeah no it is easy to make your own presets in this though and you know highly advise you learn some basic sound design it's a very powerful tool that can really elevate your music and make it more unique to you obviously using a bunch of presets and loops you know anyone can do that but you know taking the time to dive in a bit is good but presets exist for a reason um digital is greater than analog yeah i mean i honestly would tend to agree with that a lot of people would skewer me for that but i mean mind novation peak versus like a moog i'll take the peak any day [Music] how easy would it be for beginners this is actually super easy for beginners i think this is an amazing synth for people of any skill level really because it's really advanced it's something you can really grow into but it's also so easy that i think anyone could pick this up and play with it especially you know going through some presets because everything is so visual you can really easily understand how everything works and why in order to extrapolate on that information and you know learn it yourself vital cpu friendly yeah i mean i'm using what is this one two three four vitals right now with a bunch of like modulation and effects in all of these patches i mean there's a lot going on in each of these and let's play this really quick so this is my dsp and mind you i'm streaming right now too so my cpu is also taking a hit because i'm streaming so let's play this let's actually disable all the drums so just the vital alone let's see how much cpus this takes and let me turn off my limiters and stuff as well so just the vitals without any extra plugins go so that's really i mean that's i i would call that average you know i have many synths that use way more now let's turn on all of my plugins and you'll see that the difference is not that much at all [Music] yeah so i mean cpu use very very average um shout out to people like cameron for making presets and shout out to people like you for enjoying the presets i make that's what i that's what i want to see is like i i love when i see people use my presets and make something with it that's the [ __ ] best feeling ever does it have anything over pigments it has that it's free so it's absolutely worth owning for free but it's also absolutely worth supporting because it's a badass synthesizer um text-to-wave table example i already did that and i can't anymore i think i've run out of text to wavetable unfortunately um standout features of vital stand-up features of vital mpe support a really easy mod matrix super super powerful modulation all around um really great sounding effects a fantastic [ __ ] reverb algorithm a lot of really great filter modes uh basically if you need a workhorse synth this is the one existing wave tables no you can load audio as wave tables i can just drag in any audio and make it a wave table so you can import the serum ones massive ones uh you can import just regular like here's a wav file and that yeah it can import wave tables super easy and you can also design your own within the wave table editor um objectively sounds better than pigments i would say pigments some of the filters and pigments like the sem filter and some of that sounds really really damn good but vital all around i can't fault it it's very clean too vital is not out yet so uh one more disclaimer for those of you joining this is an early access copy so this doesn't necessarily represent the final release vital comes out on november 24th and you can find more information at vital.audio the cons of vital um cons wise there's no dedicated noise oscillator which meh um you know some people like that some people don't uh it's not multi-timbral maybe a con depending on kind of like what type of patches you like to make um no standard arpeggiator and sequencer which again take it or leave it um the i don't know the reverb only has like one algorithm that might be something different uh the only other con i can think of is that maybe it's just it is a digital synthesizer and it intends to be a digital synthesizer so if you're looking for something like diva this is not that um but you know that's why other synths exist so you know and it's free so i mean i i really i can't bring myself to be the guy to [ __ ] about a free plugin um purchase some of your samples which synths have you done presets for uh i made some of the factory wave tables for pigments i've made a shitload of serum presets over the years um synthmaster one i've done some banks for uh god i don't even remember at this point i i think i collaborated on like a dune pack or something at one point um i don't know yeah i mean pretty much any of the major players i've probably done a sound bank for it at some point um art programming easy to use yeah uh i showed this earlier but very very quickly we can turn an lfo into an arp so we'll just make this an eight step arp with a four slot grid so we can easily turn that into an arpeggiator we'll just make this an octave and we could easily quantize that to some regular tones so yeah super easy to do that um does the plugin need internet access 24 7 because text to wave table is a server-based feature i don't know um matt would probably know that you can ask that in the vital discord um how useful is text-to-wave table it's actually pretty useful um i made a patch earlier this one which uses all text to wave [Music] table so that's all text wave table there um see any other major questions here yeah if you have analog wave tables and drift mod yeah um with the random you can set this to purlin noise which is a really smooth noise modulator so with a bit of that i mean you can make kind of like a really fake [Music] oh um yeah so these are not poly i don't know if that matters to anyone um the lfos i think are all mono they're not polyphonic lfos at least i think um but yeah i mean with some stuff you can make some analog-ish patches could this be the serum killer no nothing's gonna kill serum serum's way too popular and i think that that's just hype marketing if anything and anyone who's trying to sell you that is full of [ __ ] um sounds in dune three aggressive rhys yeah so i mean it's like i have so many vsts anymore it's hard to keep on um okay that looks like we're all caught up on questions those are poly okay lfos are all poly okay so i think the randoms are not poly the lfos are poly though so you could maybe do i don't know just something whoops and just make like a fake random i don't know this is going to take a lot of clicking so with that we could kind of get like a warm let's do a ladder filter and then a little bit of soft clipping [Music] so you can sort of get some like analog-ish tones um what bugs have you encountered uh not many i mean but i'm also way late in the game but this is a really damn good piece of software because it's incredibly [ __ ] stable um i think i only found one bug myself and it was something super super minor i don't even think it was a bug though i think it was just more like i thought it should be different um wavetables being a big hip thing yeah i mean wave tables are a fad to some degree because everyone's like dude what wave table was that bass bro you know [ __ ] rocket powered sounds and such but you know i think wave tables have a purpose i mean obviously it's a really popular form of synthesis and it's been around for a while it's not really a new thing but you know wave tables are really powerful i think there was just there was definitely a couple of years when like the dubstep kitties blew up that wave tables became just a point of marketing you know just saying it's a wave table synth got people all freaked out um let's see any other questions and stuff 64-bit only i don't know i think it's only 64-bit but maybe not vital versus surge versus helm i think you should just own all three because they're free um 64-bit only thank you um very good for boards of canada since yeah i mean this with a bit of noise and some reverb or something [Music] oh we got us on the sample oscillator to the filter add some release [Music] and of course a big old reverb then we'll saturate the reverb [Music] yep good stuff shepherd tone knob yes there is a shepherd tone [Music] which is not going to make sense here so we could just put an lfo on that [Music] so that's kind of fun um warp function do you like the most uh i don't know fm i always like fm out of the out of the like spectral warping things i think maybe the smear or the uh i think it was the harmonic stretch no not that one um maybe it was just phase dispersed i think it was that because that was really useful for some like squidgy bases and stuff um format filters yeah format filters just standard vowel filters aoi [Music] right and all the filters are really clean sounding this is called vital dark low wide reese i got you bro it's like one of the first patches i made of course called aries hashtag can you make a wreath tutorial [Music] uh are there skins i don't know winky face probably but maybe not i don't think there's gonna be skins but there might be skins i really don't know anyone who says they know doesn't know file tracker what's going on all right [Music] um let's make like one more bass sound and then i think we'll call it for the evening let's finish this drop with just one [Music] bass [Music] i think i want to change that to be not triplets [Music] and just make like a screechy fm thing [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] one [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] something like that i just this song just makes me think of like a t-rex [Music] [Music] do [Music] all right and that's a drop with vital with no extra processing on it [Music] [Music] oh boy and that is vital if you guys don't mind i'm gonna take a very quick intermission and we can have a little bit of uh q a here if anyone has any remaining questions concerns comments i should go on mr bill's podcast i would love to meet mr bill i feel like mr bill and i would be very good friends i'm going to take a quick intermission i'll be right back we'll do one more q a and that's going to do it for the evening be right back [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh all right intermission aka have a piss maybe okay um so yeah i think that kind of wraps everything up in terms of the meat and potatoes of all this uh if anyone has any questions or anything like that now is the time i will do a couple more questions and stuff here i hope everyone enjoyed the stream for those of you that have to leave or it's very late or uh whatever excuse me so thanks for hanging out i hope you enjoyed it hope you learned something as always vital comes out november 24th you can go to vital.audio for more information to sign up on the mailing list vital is free and also paid once again i encourage you to support this project and get one of the paid versions including the five dollar a month subscription which is super cheap and gives you access to everything in the kitchen sink with all this so let's have a look for some questions um christmas 2020 is looking good no [ __ ] um what do you think about rolly equator 2 i have no idea didn't even know that happened uh gui fixed or scalable for laptops of large monitors i believe it's resizable i think that was like one of the first things i tested but i don't remember come on mouse you got this my mouse is probably mad at me for the chuck e cheese song maybe that's it um is it scalable it is so it's because it is vector based so it's fully scalable and 60fps smooth yeah it is one of the smoothest interfaces it's buttery um still with mixcraft i am with mixcraft i work with them very closely i use mixcraft quite a bit i actually used it the other day i was doing some sound design for a video thing and i use mixcraft for that because mixcraft does video support um also still use cubase i use a lot of different daws every daw is different every daw is well suited to certain things you know if there was one perfect daw we would all use it but i'm very excited for mixcraft in the future i can't say uh anything really but there's some pretty cool stuff that's all i can say about that um thank you for all the videos no problem at all i'm so happy to see how much this channel has grown it really blows my mind so thank you you know matter of fact all you guys you make it possible just landed here well well welcome um everything will be reposted later if you want to check out the stream just a heads up in case anyone missed that venus burp sample pack maybe for 50k vital tutorial and sound design yeah i'm probably gonna do some vital tutorials in the future i'm doing a video i'm not going to give away what i'm doing um just to protect my youtube against other youtubers um i'm going to be doing a video on vital soon which is going to have a bunch of presets with it and after that i plan to do maybe a handful of videos maybe breaking down songs like this drop and just how the sounds work and why part of your go-to kit now honestly i think it probably will be um it's so fast to use and that's one of the biggest things for me as a sound designer is that i want stuff that gets things done quickly because you know i get paid a certain amount and i have to make sure i do something in an efficient amount of time to make that paycheck worth it so stuff like vital is very big to me you know because like obviously there's really powerful stuff out there but it's so you know convoluted and difficult to use that it eats up a lot of time so you know vital doesn't do everything it does a hell of a lot though so i'm sure it's going to be something i'm going to use a fair amount definitely i mean honestly i think this would replace serum for me for the most part i mean obviously i'm going to have to use serum because of my work like i get contracted to make serum packs all the [ __ ] time but like this kind of does what i wish serum did it doesn't have some of the stuff i like about serum in it but you know i mean that's kind of like rapid too you know rapid has a lot of stuff i like that other synths don't do um the return of salem question mark i'm not sure what you mean by that uh beginner tutorials with vital if people are interested in some beginner tutorials definitely um you know just let me know if you're interested in like beginner level stuff i'd be happy to make that are you hyped for cubase 11 cubase land uh so your take would be neat i'm pretty excited about it i actually made the demo track for cubase 11. if you download cubase 11 there's a demo track by venus theory and i'm super honored to have been a part of that that was super [ __ ] exciting to be asked to like make a demo track for cubase um cubase 11 has a lot of really great features too some of the new stuff is sick um frequency got a dynamic eq update there's a imager kind of like ozone imager built in there's an ott type thing built in uh sampler track got an update there's a bunch of new content packs um uh and then a lot of like little quality of life things i think 11s 11 is probably one of their best versions yet honestly because i thought 10 and 10.5 were 10 was pretty good 10.5 mi but yeah 11 was a damn good update save this please um a dot there comes paul adobe atmos um i think cubase and pro tools can do multi-dimensional audio mixing i don't know how vital would handle that though um next best free plugin surge absolutely go down download surge it's open source um i'm going to be involved with some pretty cool things in surge in a couple months and surge is much like vital one of the best free synths out there hands down how does your backfill in this crappy gaming chair my back actually feels great because this was one of the expensive chairs with the cool pillows and a lumbar pillow and it's all adjustable this chair is actually really really nice what does serum have that vital doesn't some of the warp modes in serum [Music] i think serums wavetable editor is maybe a bit easier for people who don't understand the concept of keyframes what else is like great about serum uh i don't know the fm in serum i'm pretty sure it's just phase modulation and i think the fm in vital is actual fm i don't really know though um but something about the fm in serum sounds i don't know a bit more like everything else you hear vital is obviously really capable of some really damn good fx or fm sounds as demonstrated by this track here but um the fm in serum is just there's something to the way that it sounds that i really like for a lot of things uh and i guess the reverb filter if i'm being honest you know the reverb filter and serum it's kind of hard to find anything else like that out there um write a book on how to program different synths or sound design i've thought about making like a pdf at some point of just like here's a bunch of [ __ ] i learned but you know that's a pretty big project for something that i'm not sure i would see a return on um love a beginner's series hard to find a starting place yeah i'll note that down i mean you know totally beginner stuff is you know i love teaching that kind of [ __ ] so do a book on fm synthesis i probably could i [ __ ] love fm uh new video features for cubase 11. i did not do any video features for it um i don't think i'll maybe do anything on the channel because it's already covered on their channel i do have some new videos coming out on the cubase youtube channel though um final plug for the discord server yeah go join the vital discord if you haven't already uh torsion texture labs i am not but i'll have to check them out reverb filter is dumb yeah the reverb filter is overused as [ __ ] but i mean it got overused for a reason it does have a sound to it if i was a movie producer i'd hire you well thank you um fm and serums phase modulation much like the dx7 and citrus yeah uh hope vital can be nice for some progressive transfer i'm sure it can i mean vital is just a general workhorse synth i mean anything you want to throw at it it can probably do outside of like additive synthesis and like really ridiculous physical modeling and big multi-operator fm um because you i don't think you can fm from the lfo you can't so yeah you can't really do like big multi-operator fm but as a general meat and potato synthesizer vital especially the free option it's pretty [ __ ] unbeatable um anyways i think that is going to wrap it up here everyone uh thank you for joining me i hope you enjoyed the stream i hope you enjoyed all of this if you have not already signed up for the vital mailing list you can go to vital.audio to sign up vital comes out on november 24th this is a project by matt tytel the creator of helm one of the best free synths out there and is one of the biggest everybody freaking out oh my god hype train choo choo moments of synthesizers in the industry at least in recent memory this is absolutely nuts um definitely support this project if you can i know things are weird this year with all that kind of stuff whatever um but you know matt i think is more than deserving of the recognition that i'm very confident he's about to receive from this project because vital is truly an incredible offer for anyone of any skill level of any genre out there much like something like surge it's truly a powerful powerful piece of software i highly encourage that you support this project by buying one of the bigger versions which gives you some extra features there is the subscription option at only five dollars a month to get this plus unlimited text to wave table plus some extra access to new features and new plugins i don't know what new plugins we can expect but i'm very much looking forward to finding out um yeah so i think that does it for this stream i hope you guys enjoyed it i hope you had fun uh i had a hell of a time thank you guys for joining me this was really really fun vital seems pretty vital it does uh so i think that's going to do it for this stream guys thanks for hanging out i will be around later on my discord this entire stream will be posted later i will be doing some videos about vital my first video is going to include a bunch of presets and stuff so thanks for hanging out i hope you enjoyed it good night and good luck [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you