It’s not entitlement. Complex software should be maintained, be it free or paid, be it proprietary or open-source.
I personally cannot even use Vital because of a constant monitor flickering bug on my setup, there have been no updates with bug fixes since 3(?) years ago. Fortunately there are other good synths as well. Vital is a great synth as is, but you shouldn’t assume everyone’s experience is the same.
I hope the dev is still alive and well, it’s understandable they lost interest both in the project and in communication about it; I’m a fickle person and have had a similar experience with my own stuff. Maybe Vital already reached its end, maybe not yet.
Rather than bring out new features, I’d like VItal 1.5.5 to just work on iMac as it doesnt. See previous posts I’v made for details on this problem. Cheers everybody.
i admit that it would seem more normal if there was an occasional edge case mended or opportunity for some optimization to be found. these days the codebase could be dropped into claude and it would probably find a bunch of things that might be worth it to tweak such as updating to the newest version of juce at least. it would be a lot of work still, but what the project needs is someone with time on their hands to do it.
Does anyone know something about this fork GitHub - 12Matt3r/vital: Spectral warping wavetable synth ? Seems like AI nonsense but sounds kinda cool. I have no idea about building code myself tho, would be great if someone could share the dll if some of you can…