EX / 3rd Party Plugins / Vital

NB: these examples work only if you have the associated plugin installed. Remember to issue Rescan Plugins… after installing any new plugins.

Intro

Vital Synth is an amazing spectral warping wavetable synth that is available as a CLAP format plugin. As such, it works well with Hz and the combination offers new potential synergies not available with typical point-and-click DAWs.

Examples

NB: these examples will only work if you have Vital Synth installed on your system.

vitalState.js

This example shows you how to create and instantiate a Vital Synth anode and initialize it via a preset file. You can create your own preset files in Vital by with its Export Preset menu option (in the upper right quadrant of the interface). Note that we issue vital.Show() to raise the GUI window. This causes it to appear in the Audio Monitor's Window Panel where you can Show and Hide it manually.

Here's a snippet from the example:

let ascene = await Ascene.BeginFiber(this);
let vital = ascene.NewAnode("Vital");
let dac = ascene.GetDAC();
ascene.Chain(vital, dac);
await ascene.Sync();
let preset = "presets/ceramic.vital";
await vital.RestoreState(path.join(thisDir, preset));

dumpParams.js

THis example simply dumps the list of all known parameters to the Log Panel. Note that you can also use Plugin Explorer for this.

Note: there are almost 800 parameters here!

setParams.js

In this simple example we automate the 3 oscillator pan parameters. Examine the Vital GUI carefully to observe the effects.

vitalSong.js and vitalModParam.hz

This advanced example shows how to modify Vital parameters using Songs.hz. Examine the Vital GUI carefully and notice that our song is automating multiple oscillator pan and volume parameters.

Issues

It appears that Vital may have a limit on the number of live GUIs of around 3-4. For this reason use vital.Show() sparingly.

Vital has no default mapping for MIDI note velocity. Rather, some presets route it to a target. The file presets/RoutedVelocity.vital has such a routing.

Vital Synth doesn't currently appear to produce CLAP note-done events and therefore doesn't play well with Voices. Since Vital Synth is already polyphonic, this is probably a non-issue.