Tips, Tricks and "Secret" Functions!

[andrew_a]

Just tried the discord server for the first time and found this Vital FAQ

Edit: looks like it was written before the official release, so some things may have changed.

[andrew_a]

Also from the discord server, this pinned post written by @glorkglunk

vocode: this keeps the formant steady no matter the note you play, which means it will probably change your sound a little bit by default. Good for text to speech stuff or just if you wanna keep the formant of a sound in one place, the range is relatively small of the formant shifting.
formant scale: this sorta moves the harmonics up or down the spectrum further than vocode mode while still retaining more of the sound’s original harmonic structure than say something like sync. Like vocode but doesn’t keytrack at all.
Harmonic stretch: this increases the distance between the harmonics from the fundamental essentially. if you move it to 62.5% you shift all the harmonics up so that it actually takes all the even ones out and squarifies it, keep going further and the spaces between the harmonics get wider and wider (and of course this one’s great for screeches). stretch modes do nothing to a sine as there’ no harmonics to stretch.
Inharmonic stretch: like harmonic stretch but without as even of a pattern, I don’t quite understand the difference between the two, but in practice this sounds way more metallic.
smear: sorta a blur for the spectrum, it’s a bit hard to explain. it spreads harmonics up and up by kinda stacking more on until they pretty much highpass out and disappear. this sorta sounds like those kinda additive phaser sounds in razor/harmor but it works by adding stuff rather than subtracting.
Random amplitudes: this is a filter that takes out harmonics really sharply and moves them up and down, random isn’t exactly the right word bc it will always have the same movement, good for spectrally metally sounds or super resonant stuff or bells
phase disperse: moves all the phases in the sound around so clicky things become squishy. try it on a saw as a demonstration while looking at the spectrum. the spectrum won’t change but you’ll be able to hear a clear difference.
lowpass/highpass: just extremely sharp linear phase filters

[vcvr]

Thanks a lot. Didn´t know about this discord server.

[andrew_a]

Another bit of info found on discord, via ShibuyaCyana to be specific.
Vital’s multi-band compressor explained.

Crossovers are 120hz and 2.5khz (via @afro)

[vcvr]

when you use asdfgh keys to play vital try x and y/z to switch up and down an octave.

[vcvr]

this is probably not so new, when you hold alt and klick on a value, you can enter value with keyboard.

hold ctrl when left click and hold mouse, for fine tuning.

[caowasteland]

It was news to me. Thanks, mate!

[andrew_a]

LFO fun

These are for a Mac keyboard:

• Shift + mouse drag on a tension point: adjusts all the tension points asymmetrically
• Shift + Option(Alt) + mouse drag on a tension point: adjusts all the tension points symmetrically
• Shift + double mouse click on a tension point: resets all points back to linear

(via the discord server)

Plus (not shown in the GIF):

• Command: temporarily activates the “paint brush” for drawing

[vcvr]

Thanks a lot!

This also works in WT editor with Line Source.

[vcvr]

Clear search boxes

on the mac with small buetooth keyboard the “esc” (on the keyboard) works i.e.: clears the entry in the wavetable search and presetbrowser search (LFO search does not work)

[vcvr]

Split pitch wheel range

You could use a remap curve ( in the mid matrix) ad set your bipolar pitch bend value.

made an exampleSplit Pitch Wheel.vital (109.6 KB)

[vcvr]

Different unison modes

Also if you click and drag on the unison graphic (underneath the “UNISON” label) on the main page voice page you can change the spacing of the unison which covers some of the modes you want i think.

[vcvr]

Synced LFOs - continuous animation

ok, sending note on with 0 velo does nothing. note on with velo 1 is full volume. but if you connect velo to osc volume it works.

[vcvr]

Envelopes triggered by modulators going over a threshold

I have worked out how to trigger envelopes (assuming you don’t want to wait more than 4 seconds into the note for it to trigger). Set that Envelope’s delay to maximum (I.e. 4 seconds), and map your triggering variable to modulate that back down to zero. Then draw a Mod Remap curve that’s basically a flat line at zero to the threshold, and max afterwards. The Envelope will be in a wait state until the threshold is hit, then will start. You can also do this with LFOs, and I think it works bett…

[magnus]

Is there any way to modify the crossover points? Assuming not, but would be great if you could…

[andrew_a]

I don’t believe there is. You could post a request in the feature request category.

[vcvr]

on the second osc modulation knob (where fm is) when a mode from sync to pulse is choosen, there apears “Distortion Phase Slider”.

didn´t see other people use this much, probably it´s easy to overlook.

[vcvr]

you can connect MIDI to switch on/off a lot of stuff.

for example: osc, smp, filter, legato, fx modules (stuff in fx modules f.e. delay modes), modulation and stero in matrix, note track and unison stack in advanced.

probably usefull for live play.

[vcvr]

as english is not my native language i´m not sure if i understand everything correctly.

tried to rebuild this, when you decrese delay time (with macro) threshold goes down?

for pads or what kind of sounds you use this stuff? share some pls

[magnus]

Here’s a patch that randomly triggers envelopes. More a proof of concept than something actually useful, but I guess you could find some use for it.Random Triggers.vital (170.6 KB)