Vital Synth Tutorial: Creating Wavetables Using Hardware 🤩

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Howdy doody, frienderoonies! Today we're here for a new Vital synth tutorial, all about sound design and creating custom wavetables using hardware synthesizers. In this video, we'll be using my trusty Novation Peak to create some new wavetables for Vital in a matter of only a few minutes!

This process is super fun and easy, and can help you get a bit of that hardware magic into your synth patches!

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0:00 Howdy
0:46 A Note About Hardware
1:08 Initial Setup
2:30 MIDI Parameter Setup
3:59 Creating A Wavetable
6:27 Importing The Wavetable
8:35 A Better Wavetable
11:23 Closing Thoughts

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[thefox]

Come on..its ur fucking Hobby. Why i should Pay for your Hobby ? Damn Idiot !

[VenusTheory]

Hope everyone enjoys the video! Waldorf Blofeld next? 🤔

[Trackformers]

Yes!!! Gona watch this later!! Is it okay to like a video before watching it?? Who cares i did.. 😁

[rainieralbertsz]

Nice vid, for anyone wanting a cleaner wavetable i would suggest fixing the dc offset. Fading the edges and optionally normalizing each snapshot. Not sure how this works in vital. But its really easy in serum to fix this

[mcengineeringprof]

Pro Tip: If you own the HW synth, you own the audio waveforms it produces. This also means that you own the wavetables. This also means that you can re-sell them in your own patches or synth or sample pack, or whatever.

Indeed, plenty of the most famous wavetables started with one - cycle samples of original analog gear then implemented as a wavetable. Future wavetable (and analog modeling synths) then simply re - used these tables taken from other synths. Over the years, they've been changed and improved, but odds are that on the peak there are plenty of wavetables that started off way back as a Minimoog saw or a Jupiter square, or something from a Tangerine Dream modular patch.

Hell, the original Alesis Ion and Virus all but gave away their sources in their documentation (though, ironically, they couldn't print the name of the synth because THAT would infringe on copyright / trademark rights).

Similarly, a lot of the Refx Nexus (2/3) patches were built directly from Virus wavetables and JP-80x0 cycles turned into tables.

If you visit Szabo's site, you can actually download the Virus tables he used to make his new synth. There's about 100 of them. All free.

Also, a "patch" (which is akin to a 'process' or an 'algorithm') IS protected. It's viewed as software or an industrial process. However, any wavetables that you use for such a patch are not copy - right - able. So, someone couldn't sell your patches that you created and have the copyright to for a profit, but they COULD use your wavetables in their OWN patch set.

Clear as mud, huh? 🤪

[erizwa]

I just discovered that the wavetables created in Vital work perfectly in Pigments! It works via the wav export option in Vital. It sounds fantastic!

[djkymaera]

excellent video cameron, gonna try this.

[kmdaykin]

This has to be THE nicest FSU tool outside of vcv rack.

[aSpeakerBlocksAway]

Thank you! So much fun with the Microfreak. And the softsynthis for free... it is unbelievebale

[JanMichalSzulew]

Interesting. Gotta try it to import a clean "Laser Harp" Synthex sound osc from AN1x (it's a very specific implementation of a pulse with sync that most synths do in a different way producing a very different sound) into Vital. We'll see how it goes. As for "F#0" which note naming convention are you using? C-2..G8, C-1..G9 or C0..G10? (obviously not the last one, as I see a "-1" on your note grid)

[wesleyleigh]

I mean, Ring mods are available in software synths, so the only real advantage to using a harware synth here is the analog filter.

[dRLb]

really neat way to make wt indeed ty! :)

[TheSoulSynthesis]

This is pretty nice. I'm debating with myself to get a polyend tracker and this technique paired with let's say Rapid would open it up for me even more. The scanning is a bit steppy on the Tracker but with some stupid bonkers per step modulation it might sound cool too.

[WilmarBoer]

Why are you using 1 bar as a default length? Wavetables are about using one cycle as the oscilator and switch between the cycles for variation. So the length of the sample is to determine the amount of cycles the wavetable synth has to play with, but it can be any length? And in your other video about making wavetables you mention the relationship between sample rate and used root note. Why is that? Actually I hope you will make a video that goes a bit deeper into the backgrounds of wavetables :-).

[BNLNRD]

I'm having a problem here. For some reason when I try and do this the resulting wavetable slowly "wanders off" to the left when scanning through, as if the phase is getting shifted over time (using the Roland System-1m and for all I know this shouldn't be default behaviour). Gets a little pitchy when doing quick modulations. I also tried experimenting with the note, but that doesn't make a difference.

[coralismmusic]

I know this videos super old but I’ve got vital but when I downloaded it there are no or presets or wave tables, I’ve downloaded a decent amount of presets now but I don’t even have basic shapes., how might I remedy this??

[NirvzHD]

@Venus Theory, I love the idea of grabbing some samples/presets/wavetables from you, but I couldn't hear any of the presets. I'd love a link to a soundcloud account or something demoing them before I buy.

[travesdymusic]

So if were supposed to be using a specific note based on our sample rate, would we use a fixed frequency to play a specific note, as in kick and snare design?

[sevenfifteen]

There's some confusion I deal with. Related to the frequencies. You presented a chart, and I assume to know where it comes from. But that confuses me. Goal is to have one full wavecycle per size of (in my case) Vital's wave size, which is 2048 samples (dsp units, not samples as in sample player). When recording in 48 kHz, it's 48000 / 2048, which is 23.4375 Hz. The closest musical frequency to this is F#0, which is 23.12. Fine. But then you record one bar at 110 bpm, which is a lot more than a second, in fact more than 2 seconds (Hz = pulses per second). That's where I gave up understanding it. Would you mind explaining it a little more?

[romixfly]

Vital converting 32 bit - 44.100 to 16 bit - 88.2 Khz. But i'ts F1, not F0. Why? Why Vital do this:) I'ts normal? It may be better to initially create in F1 32bit - 88.2Khz? Update: Vital always convert wav to 16 bit - 88.2 Khz. Dune 3 and Serum - does not convert.