I recently finished my first album - titled “A Brief History of the Means of Production” - which is now available (for free) on Bandcamp as well as pretty much all streaming/digital download platforms under the artist name “Signals In Noise”. Pretty much all the sound design was done in Vital, although I did use a bunch of samples from freesound.org and the free version of the BBC Discovery Orchestra from Spitfire (in addition to just playing some acoustic guitar, which I did often process quite a lot in Vital).
The four tracks of the album make up a time travel through various forms of human society, starting from the hunter-gatherer-days on “Fire” and progressing via the agrarian “Sickle” and industrial “Hammer” to the glitchy “Ether”, which in spirit of remix-culture is built almost entirely out of elements from the preceding tracks. I don’t really know what to call the genre, it’s definitely influenced a lot by ambient, IDM and post-rock, but not sure if it fits in any of those let me know if you have a suggestion!
Anyway, this was super fun to make, and I feel like I learned so much about sound design on the way, mostly thanks to the amazingly intuitive GUI of Vital (it’s unreal how good this thing is)! Hopefully someone will find listening to it enjoyable as well
Oh, and the whole thing is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution -license, so feel free to use in any way you want.
Yep! I love field recordings and turning samples of non-instruments into instruments, and Vital is an excellent tool for that (although sometimes I wish the sampler could deal with longer clips :D)! All the field recordings and samples I used are from freesound, and if you’re interested in downloading them yourself, you can find a complete list in my post on the freesound forums: https://freesound.org/forum/your-work-made-with-freesounds/43156/
I’ve also uploaded some loops from this album over there for anyone to freely remix, you can find them by going to my profile: https://freesound.org/people/SignalsInNoise/
Thanks for the free sample packs! I like to field record myself either with my Macbook Pro Laptop, or my Zoom H6. I get lazy sometimes and resort to the laptop haha. Really cool songs guys, gonna check them out, and see if I have any songs I used Vital with to post here :).
Hi folks, I’m a new Vital user - I’ve been investigating control of Vital sending both note and control patterns from tidalcycles (livecoding environment) - everything I’m working on is for fun, plenty of mistakes and no “release quality” material (yet)
Very grateful for the free presets people have provided, it’s been a significant help in getting me moving quickly
Both leads, arp keys, bass sub, and most SFX/risers are my own patches. Chords and pads are not my patches but are Vital-only creations. Percussion is a combination of Cymatics Terror Drums and Sounds of KSHMR Vol. 2.
let me know if you have a suggestion!
