Serum vs. Vital VST comparison
27-11-2020

Name


Price
189$
free
Built in presets
so-so
good
Amount of 3rd party presets
huge
small
Presets Browser
yes
Search in presets
yes
Categories
yes
Select multiple categories
yes
Store SCW in preset
yes
Microtuning
yes
Resizable UI
yes
scale ratios
scale ratios
yes
can full screen
buggy resize
too thin font
can full screen
buggy resize
too thin font
visual feedback
good
better
Skins
same
Has Keyboard, Mod / Pitch wheel, Glide, Mono, Legato, Always
same
OSC
2 + sampler + Sub (only 6 shapes)
3 + sampler
Direct Out
Only sub and noise
everything
wave morph modes
22
12
Macro
same
ENV
4
6
LFO
8
8
LFO can be ENV
yes
LFO has Delay and Smooth
yes
LFO presets
yes
copy LFO

hold alt

random LFO
yes, 2
yes, 4
random LFO modes
1
4
max oversampling
4x
8x
LFO freq
Hz
time
Modulation max rate
100 Hz
1000 Hz (0.001 sec)
Mod dest and side-chain (SC)
has AUX source, it is like SC in Massive
drag and drop MOD env on morph curve
has AUX source, it is like SC in Massive

drag and drop MOD env on morph curve

Sort modulation


filters
2
3
num of types
96
64
filter edit
switch display mode


acts like X-Y pad


SCW inport modes
7


3


MPE
yes
Reverb
okay
good
Distorsion
16


6


unison stack modes


Storing Presets
a little messy
stores wavetables, presets, LFOs in Vendor's folder (fixed Serum's issue)
custom distortion wave shape


render last note


hyper / dimension


filter level


modulate lfo anchor X-Y position


silence tails when DAW stops

no
drag and drop picture


Not the same


LFO can sync freq to pitch

Custom Wave Morph Mode


Coarse Pitch


Hidden here


Tooltips


LFO: select dots


FX insert unit with macros

Lock Mod Matrix on preset change


spectral morph


some filters has extra rotary


filter type morphing


LFO: quick draw


tranpose snap


Stereo mod for modulators

Unison mode per oscilator


only filter


waveform and spectral analyzer


text to wavetable


search in wavetable list


extra midi modulators


more voice stealing options


Spread


Vital tips:
ctrl + mouse = precise increment
alt + click = enter value
click on waveform to see spectrogram
double click = default
shift + change pitch = jump by octave

draw and copy/paste shapes right in the LFO

use spectral view mode to see spectral morph

use mouse wheel to tune modulation amount without drop the source on destination

you can mute modulation

disable compression by sliding stripes (ratio)

scroll mouse to zoon bands

smoth can be switched to fade-in

use shift to edit all LFO curves

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