Seems a one man army just came out of nowhere Oakland and made them all look rather tired and uninspired. One of those "Won't be able to look at things the same way again" like moments. There's 3 DAHDSR (delay, attack, hold, sustain, release) envelopes, 4 extremely flexible programmable LFOs, 2 random generators, a nice enough effects section, an extremely flexible routing matrix system (just about anything can be routed to anything), AND a rather nifty means of setting any modulation source to function in stereo.įor all it can do, have found it surprisingly light on CPU load.īeen a good many years since any self contained synth left me just simply in awe and jaw dropped, but Vital has assuredly achieved that. While the synths Osc generation capabilities are mind blowing on their own, Vital far from stops there, and continues on by offering 3 oscillators, 2 of which are of the wavetable+spectral warping sort and a sample based Osc. The fusion of the two approaches yields capabilities that have left me nothing shy of mind blown. Spectral Morphing can be used to emulate a number of more traditional synthesis approaches, such as Osc Sync, Pulse Width Modulation, Low pass and High pass filtering, and many more (all on a purely Osc level). Wavetables can be user generated or imported (and there's a nice amount of pre-made tables also offered), while the spectral approaches come provided through a number of means referred to as "spectral morphing". The key to the synths magick, as noted, largely lay in it's osc generation, which fuses a combination of Wavetable (in the Palm/PPG/Waldorf sense) and spectral synthesis. (it's available for Windows, OSX, and debian/Linux ) While I did pay for a pre-release of the synth, the synth itself is available freely and I can't say enough good things about it.įor those that haven't checked it out, I HIGHLY recommend it. That is to say, the soft synth Vital has one of the most unique and mind blowing approaches to Osc generation I've yet encountered. I still don't know the answer to that question, but I'm convinced it's Vital.
I have a saying of "What's an oscillator?"