Exploring Vital 1.5.1 update (beta pre-release)

Thnks! Didn’t look from there.

what is the disadvantage of a public beta? bandwidth?

what is the advantage of a subscription/pro user? you get the beta earlier…

Bandwidth, but perhaps not the kind you’re thinking of.

The advantage of limiting a beta release to a smaller number of users is that it allows the developer to limit the volume of bug reports and other feedback coming in. Opening up to a public beta can have the result of getting flooded with bug reports, often times with a lot of duplication. If there’s, say, a particular bug that’s really easy to reproduce, maybe two of your closed beta testers would report it. Whereas with a public beta, you might have a hundred copies of it to sift through. And that’s on top of all the other reports that aren’t dupes!

But right there you just confirmed that a wider beta release would find more bugs.

I don’t necessarily look at having to beta test a new version as a privilege, more like a task. Those who paid more are working to help provide a bug free new version for those who paid nothing.

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are this the correct patch notes?

Undo / Redo
Added new spectral warp modes - custom filter, custom flanger, custom phaser
Added seed option to random amplitude spectral warp
Added way to set a default preset
Runs natively on Apple silicon
Added ASIO support to standalone
Added normalize and DC offset options to the wavetable editor
Added subharmonic unison mode
Added MIDI learn assignment indicator
Sped up plugin creation
Optimized CPU usage for sample rates above 48kHz
Faster window opening / closing
Faster browser searching
Faster window resizing
Graphics - New skin editor
Graphics - bloom + blur
Graphics - design improvements
Graphics - switched from OpenGL to DirectX11 on Windows
Graphics - switched from OpenGL to Metal on MacOS
Retains browser state after closing and reopening plugin window
Fixed slow grpahics for the VST3 version in Cubase on MacOS
Fixed graphics offset in some DAW / monitor DPI combinations on Windows
Fixed oscilloscope phase alignment when notes are played with sample offset
Fixed logging in from app in some countries
Fixed plugin startup issues with some internet connections
Fixed staying logged in on non-Debian Linux distros
Fixed staying logged in for some DAWs
Fixed crash in Linux on fast window opening/closing
Fixed crash when downloading packs with some internet connections
Fixed effect modulation jumping after the last note ends
Fixed some effects sounding different under various sample rates
Fixed 2x octave unison mode
Fixed some computer keyboard mapping to midi notes
Removed some dependencies on Linux to increase compatibility
Dropped LV2 support on Linux

Alright I’m not supporting opengl for older macs. there’s some graphical glitches I’m still trying to nail down but hopefully it should look mostly correct.

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It’s most of the changes, I need to add that I put in CLAP plugins

Is there going to be an AAX version with this release? I like Vital and would use it more if I could run it natively in Pro Tools.

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CLAP version showing not correctly on Macbook Air M1

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Yes, i can confirm that on MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16"

When will the update be available to everyone?

Yes,. when is the update available for all?

I guess when the test period is over.

Should be soon! Just finishing up some things.

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Yay I do have visual !! :slight_smile: but… the glitches, well how about I name that a stroboscope? lol
It is flickering constantly now. So still work to do, I’m sorry to say.

By the way, the new features seems to do work ok ! Just the annoying flickering to get rid off if possible.
Hopefully you can find the cause of that too.

much appreciated. looking forward to torture testing. (with a safe word of course, I’m not a barbarian)

Love this update but I noticed a few things

Seems like after flicking through presets and closing and opening Vital a few times, the 3D display on the wavetable doesn’t display correctly.

Also I feel the automation circles should have an outline around them like 1.0.8 had. It looks a bit weird to just see part of the rotary and there’s no individual way to change the color behind it without effecting something else (that I can see). Maybe a thin outline that can be the same color as the rotary color

But other than that this update is🔥

I am on an iMac 2020 running Monterey 12.3.1

Also the type on the Macro names aren’t centered. Macro names that fit on 1.0.8 don’t fit now.