Vital Synth Tips & Tricks

Enjoy using Vital Synth, but want to learn more about it? VI guru Thomas Cochran takes you on a journey of creative ideas for amazing Vital Synth tones. Whether you're looking for new ways to add modulation, strategies for developing ambient sounds, or tips on effective uses for noise, Thomas has you covered here! These Vital Synth videos are for users with a basic familiarity with Vital Synth.

Sound Design

• Making Patches Sound More Analog (09:16) - Learn how to make your synth patches sound more analog by adding modulation and subtle variation to your sounds.

• Quickly Adding Complex Movement (07:46) - Next, we look at how complex movement can be added quickly to bass synths by utilizing the wavetables features and envelopes to make a patch more interesting.

• Creating Ambient Synths (07:19) - Thomas shows how to make synth patches more lo-fi though some creative settings in Vital. This video also discusses how effects (and how reordering them) can be used to make interesting ambient synths.

• Adding Texture with Noise (07:22) - Learn how noise can enhance melodic synths though the use of texture. This is a great way of adding flavor to an otherwise simple synth patch.

• Quickly Adding Variation to Wavetables (05:51) - Discover how to use the wave morph and spectral morph controls to quickly add variation to Vital?s wavetables.

Mixing

• Making Synths Sound Thicker (07:31) - Thomas shows how to make synths thicker though the use of unison, layering, and distortion.

• Adding Width to Synths (06:34) - Learn alternative ways of adding width to your synth patches that allow for more advanced control of the sound.

• Creative Uses for LFO (06:47) - Next we look at how the LFO can be used creatively to make an arpeggiated effect that's reminiscent of a modular synthesizer.

• Adding Texture Though Distortion (05:28) - This video shows how texture can be added though creative distortion layering. The patch we will be making to demo this will be a sine compression bass.

• Quickly Mixing Patches (06:55) - To wrap up the course, Thomas shows how multi-band compression can be used to quickly mix synth patches. This can be great to use before laying in other external effects plugins.