Vital

Question 1

Vital
Everything goes thru envelope 1

Question 2

Vital
If u select the keyboard picture in the last osc then the noise or sample u put in its pitch will be relative to the keys u play if is not selected then it wont be.

Question 3

Vital
Key track knob in the filter makes the filter relative to the pitch u are playing.

Answer 3

The drive knob in the filter increases input gain which can create distortion.

Question 4

Vital
Voices dictates how many keys u can play at one time

Question 5

Vital
Increase vel trk to make it so if u play keys soft its queiter and if u play them loud its louder

Question 6

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Spread dictates the overall stereo spread of the synth

Question 7

Vital: glide section
always glide

Answer 7

means it will glide even if u arent pressing two notes at the same time.

Question 8

Vital: glide section
Legato

Answer 8

If selected, then the things like envelopes etc wont restart if u go from one note to another (as long as there isnt a gap inbetween notes.)

Question 9

Vital: glide section
Octave scale

Answer 9

If turned on, the pitch will take longer to modulate to notes/ octaves the further away they are

Question 10

Vital: compressor
u can change it to single band.
The center knob basically acts as a lowpass filter for the effect.
The ratio and threshold are controlled by dragging up and down inside/ at the bottom of the top green box.

Answer 10

The green box at the bottom when dragged up turns the compressor into an expander, with the ratio and threshold of the expansion.

Question 11

Vital: LFOs
U can drag the LFOs to anywhere thats green. The circle that appears controls the amount of modulation.
in the matrix, the amount sliders the same as the circle.

Answer 11

U can right click on the circle in the LFO and choose make bipolar which means if f.ex its assigned to a filter it will go both ways- between 1 and -1 instead of 0 and 1 (f.ex. make the filter cut off more frequencies and less frequencies) (things are automatically set to unipolar)

Question 12

Vital: LFO modes:
envelope: it just cycles once and doesnt repeat
Sustain envelope mode means if u hold a key it will sustain/ stay at the point at which the white bar is at, at the bottom of the LFO.

Answer 12

Loop point makes it loop from white bar til the end
loop hold means it loops from start to the white bar

Question 13

Vital:
U could link the velocity tile to something, so that the harder u hit the keyboard key, the more that parameter is affected.

Question 14

Vital:
The lift panel can be used to make something happen when u lift off a key.

Question 15

Vital:
In the matrix if u click the numbers it will mute/ cancel the modulation.

Question 16

Vital: advanced
Note track should be on.

Question 17

Vital: advanced
There are unison controls:
unison blend and stereo unison, which makes voices wide or thin.

Answer 17

In the dropdown u can change the unison to be a major chord or minor chord.

Question 18

Vital: advanced
There is waveform and spectral analysis

Answer 18

There is always an oscilloscope in top right. If u click on it then it turns into a spectogram.

Question 19

Vital: advanced
Stack section

Answer 19

Means u can make each note play a maj chord, minor chord, play in octaves etc

Question 20

Vital: advanced
In the voice section of advanced u can make it so that a new note restarts envelopes/ LFOs etc (kill) or that a new note countinues them (steal)

Question 21

Vital:
In the wavetable there is a slew limiter:

Answer 21

when turnt up this will even out a waveform, making it more simple.

Question 22

Vital: advanced
There is a master tuner which affects all oscillators.

Question 23

Vital:
U can preview modulations by holding it over things but not dropping it.

Question 24

In the top bar u can get into sampler settings (such as delay) within vital

Question 25

Vital: Stereo tile Can be used to make a parameter affect more of the left or more of the right.

Answer 25

One use can be dragging it into a filter, (with spread turned up), setting it to unipolar and it will create a filter for the left ear and filter for the right ear. If u drag it into the filter type slider, then u could have a high pass in one ear and a lowpass in the other.

Question 26

Vital: The random tile can be used to make a parameter change by a controllable amount every time a key is pressed

Question 27

Vital: random section: If stereos selected the left n right will do different things Sample and hold mode: the parameter its assigned to will randomly change at intervals according to the tempo

Answer 27

Perlin mode: the parameter its assigned to will gradually randomly change at a speed according to the tempo. (Usually want to set to unipolar) Could create a random macro to control randomness with one knob.

Question 28

How to make an ambient sound become musical Take an ambient sound and then route it to a Comb filter with key track on then fade in resonance

Answer 28

U can combine this with a technique of creating a bad sounding macro, including things such as loads of detuned unison voices. Once u route this through a comb filter and start to turn the resonance up, then the harmonics will start to peak thru the dissonance.