[ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
A few people have asked about arm https://forum.vital.audio/t/arm-compile ... e-lv2/1776
Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
Strong part are the visuals probably. If you're starting with a synth, this might be a good one.
Has quite some privacy concerns it seems. Is this the facebook-model? On the forum I can check someone's forum stats the times/hours he spend on forum), while I don't even have a account, strange. You had to log in constantly in Vital, all though that seems to be solved. It's closed source, I'm not sure what it does to gather data.
Has quite some privacy concerns it seems. Is this the facebook-model? On the forum I can check someone's forum stats the times/hours he spend on forum), while I don't even have a account, strange. You had to log in constantly in Vital, all though that seems to be solved. It's closed source, I'm not sure what it does to gather data.
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
The authors' reputation makes me fairly confident that there's likely nothing 'evil' going on there.
If I understand correctly it is using an online service for some (non-'live') part of the synth. This of course has some downsides (it makes those features only available when (and as long as) that service is there, and introduces some potential for some tracking by the service provider).
I prefer completely stand-alone open source software for various reasons, but I don't see any indication of 'foul play' here.
Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
Fair point and I agree that the reputation of the developer is (very) good (Helm synth etc.). But still, someone with a good reputation can still make mistakes or something could take over (it's closed source, we can't check). He doesn't have a good eye for privacy issues it seems. Those problems could be fixed though.
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
I believe the "text-to-wavetable" feature uses some third-party service to do the actual conversion. I can't imagine wanting to do that during any kind of "live" performance, but then I'm not a synth person (when playing music live, anyway).If I understand correctly it is using an online service for some (non-'live') part of the synth. This of course has some downsides (it makes those features only available when (and as long as) that service is there, and introduces some potential for some tracking by the service provider).
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
...some little third party called 'google'. It's offering a service used to create wavetables.
Which is part of sound design, not performance. People are better served joining
the official Vital forum, rather than guessing and gossiping
https://forum.vital.audio/
Which is part of sound design, not performance. People are better served joining
the official Vital forum, rather than guessing and gossiping
https://forum.vital.audio/
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
To close the loop here: the code is now open source (GPLv3, https://github.com/mtytel/vital).
There are some restrictions: notably, you cannot use the name 'vital', and you cannot connect to the 'official' webservices vital uses from your own builds. I don't know how strongly this reduces the usability of the synth.
There are some restrictions: notably, you cannot use the name 'vital', and you cannot connect to the 'official' webservices vital uses from your own builds. I don't know how strongly this reduces the usability of the synth.
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
For those currently using the free version, very little, I would think. Mostly it means you can't download the extra presets etc that are part of the paid versions. And I imagine the text-to-speech thing wouldn't work, either (but that's not something I personally really care about, I've never even tried it)...
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
For TTW you can use your preferred TTS and save to wav, then import it in Vital or Vial (if it will be the FOSS version name).
Worked for me.
Worked for me.
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
I opened a separate thread for the FLOSS release of Vital -> viewtopic.php?f=24&t=22825
@raboof feel free to merge them, although mine refers specifically to the possibility of it being forked to respect the trademark
@raboof feel free to merge them, although mine refers specifically to the possibility of it being forked to respect the trademark
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
Sorry. I've been away for a while. I just logged back in and saw this. It looks like you corrected it already. Sorry about that!
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
Ah! Relief! I feel vindicated.raboof wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:35 am To close the loop here: the code is now open source (GPLv3, https://github.com/mtytel/vital).
There are some restrictions: notably, you cannot use the name 'vital', and you cannot connect to the 'official' webservices vital uses from your own builds. I don't know how strongly this reduces the usability of the synth.
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Re: [ANN] New Wavetable Synth: "Vital"
No worries - and welcome backAudiojunkie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:50 pm been away for a while. I just logged back in and saw this. It looks like you corrected it already. Sorry about that!