[HN Gopher] Open Source Spectral warping wavetable synth
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Open Source Spectral warping wavetable synth
Author : Fannon
Score : 62 points
Date : 2022-03-08 06:36 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (vital.audio)
(TXT) w3m dump (vital.audio)
| EarlKing wrote:
| I'm not seeing anything here that is particularly innovative, and
| I'm definitely not paying for yet another pack of special
| snowflake presets. I'll stick with DX7 emulation, kthxbai.
| vollmond wrote:
| Vital and Helm are easily the most-recommended free synths I've
| seen in a couple years of learning music production. I think
| this might be the first negative/"meh" response I've seen to
| Vital.
|
| What are your preferred free synth plugins?
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| Which of Vital's features are less innovative than they claim?
|
| I'd be interested in hearing about the pre-existing
| implementations you have in mind.
| jrajav wrote:
| Its modulation system, wavetable engine, voice synthesis
| features are all innovative in certain ways. In addition, you
| can't ignore the UX, being tied to creativity even if it's not
| part of the sound. Vital has shed the traditional skeuomorphic
| approach that dominates software synthesizers and proven a lot
| of new ideas for connecting its features, visualizing its
| processes, and streamlining user workflow. Similar to what
| Arturia is doing with Pigments, though Pigments still paints
| inside the lines a little more.
|
| But it doesn't necessarily have to be innovative to be
| worthwhile, anyway. Vital has a comprehensive breadth of
| features for a digital wavetable synth and is often being
| compared to Serum, historically the marketplace leader in the
| space.
| jermeh wrote:
| Vital is one of the best free software synths out there. In terms
| of functionality, it competes with a whole lot of paid synths out
| there. For anyone getting started with making music or synthesis,
| this is 100% the recommendation I give.
| thanatos519 wrote:
| Wait, open source but I have to make an account to get anything?
|
| Public git repo or GTFO.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| In fact they seem to require a paid subscription.
| vollmond wrote:
| The synth is free. Paid levels seem to be mostly for
| skins/presets/support. There are more wavetables in the paid
| version, though I don't know enough about wavetable synthesis
| to know how much that matters.
| joe_the_user wrote:
| I'm at the free download and it's demanding I register.
| Which might still be "free" but isn't part of the terms of
| things considered "open source".
| tomtheelder wrote:
| It's OSS they just aren't that up front about it. They
| want you to make an account. I feel like that's okay.
|
| https://github.com/mtytel/vital
| danbolt wrote:
| I found the source code for the synth here on GitHub[1], but it
| doesn't look like they advertise it on their site?
|
| It seems to be compiling/linking fine on Pop!_OS, but I had to
| do some apt trial/error to ensure the right packages were
| installed.
|
| [1] https://github.com/mtytel/vital
| joe_the_user wrote:
| Let us know if you get enough for a usable system once you're
| done.
| Fannon wrote:
| This free and open source software synth really blows me away.
| It's better than most paid alternatives and I really love how
| visual interactive and well laid out this synth is.
|
| Due to it being free, there's a huge community growing around
| creating presets, sharing tutorials, and more. For example, here
| are many presets incl. audio preview:
| https://presetshare.com/presets?instrument=2&orderby=likes
| bambax wrote:
| Vital is indeed fantastic. But it's a little heavy on the CPU.
| Yet, the sounds it can make are indeed amazing.
| ace2358 wrote:
| Great synth! Huge sound possibilities and the visual aspect is
| great for visual learners who are learning synths for the first
| time!
|
| I love seeing this stuff posted here.
|
| Does anyone have any other similar plugins for synths/effects. I
| know that Valhalla does amazing work and there is VCV or whatever
| but I remember there being a bit of community issues with that
| one.
| bambax wrote:
| > _there is VCV or whatever but I remember there being a bit of
| community issues with that one_
|
| Try Cardinal: a fork of VCV that offers a free VST
| implementation. It's still a little rough around the edges but
| it's great.
| sideshowb wrote:
| Surge vst?
| mastazi wrote:
| I don't get the spectral warping part: is it similar to nonlinear
| distortion (e.g. Casio CZ-series)? Or is it a different concept?
| How does it work under the hood?
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