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27-11-2020

Serum vs. Vital VST comparison

Everything that you need to know about Serum VS Vital. I didn't compare available options in effects. Leave your feedback in the comments, if you wish. I'll improve the article.

Site

xferrecords.com/products/serum

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

yes
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

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

More: Vital Synth Hacks and Secrets by Baphometrix

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