Disthro now has a forked version of the Vital wavetable synth.

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Disthro now has a forked version of the Vital wavetable synth.

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Saw it in the synaptic list, loaded the vsti in linux reaper without issues.
Will be good to see the progress. Some people were confused by the
install options of the original, so this should be a good solution for them.
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It's also a good option for people who don't care about text to wavetable (as that function required AWS) and those who don't care about the 400+ presets.

I personally am gonna support Matt. I wrote a whole album with Helm as the primary synth, and it feels good to give back to him since he's shaken up the synth and sound design world with his new creation.
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Re: Disthro now has a forked version of the Vital wavetable synth.

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uns4ph3 wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:17 am I personally am gonna support Matt.
That's great!

Even for those who find the open source distribution more convenient to use, buying vital (or otherwise donating) is a good way to give back.
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I notice it's named Vitalium. Are there differences between this and Vital?
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Re: Disthro now has a forked version of the Vital wavetable synth.

Post by elcalen »

The name Vital is trademarked, afaik, and can't be used by forks. (Kinda like Chrome and Chromium, which the name Vitalium is obviously referencing). Any forks also can't connect to Vital's web services, so it couldn't directly download paid content etc. That's should pretty much be the extent of the differences, I think.
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Re: Disthro now has a forked version of the Vital wavetable synth.

Post by Loki Harfagr »

At the moment there is one big difference, still not enough but one quite impressive as is:

(note, I use Ardour or Mixbus and occasionally beta-Muse4)
With the original Vital plugin no way to open it, it is accepted in the "test and include in available plugins" list but refuses to open with a very-wild-guess-comment panel.

With the Vitalium fork, it lists and it opens and is evens somewhat useable though that little sang that when you hide ou close its plugin UI panel it crashes the whole Daw, so there is some progress in the process :D

this is on Manjaro (using '5.10.18-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT') but I've got the same troubles with other kernels, other distros and on other computers then I guess either my troubles with Vital.* at the moment are mine or.
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Post by finotti »

As I've just posted elsewhere, the new version of Vitalium now runs fine in system with OpenGL 1.3 and runs without a problem in Ardour.

Although I had already paid for Vital, I finally can use it in Ardour (where before I could not load it). I could import the paid preset bank to Vitalium also.

So, even for those who paid, this is is very good news!
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Testing vitalium, I made a folder /home/me/.local/share/vitalium, and copied over presets
from the nearby vital folder.

The odd bit, is clicking on Unison in the first oscillator area brings up
the preset browser.

...then, clicking on 'Name' atop the opened preset listing takes you back to
the editor panel.

Also, when making selections in the preset list, I must click the preset name
just below the one I want, offset by one line.

This is in a fully updated Ubuntu Studio 20.04, using Reaper 6.25, on an old i7 with
an old nVidia 9400GT pcie card. Other vitalium controls seem to be working fine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8IKOWsENXM

Our @unfa made a video about Vitalium. We already included it in GeekosDAW, so if someone uses openSUSE they can easily install it.
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Post by oddy.o.lynx »

I am on Debian Buster and had a lot of problems building the Disthro fork as it uses meson which has proved problematic in the past when building apps. Also the Disthro build had some error about needing OpenGL 1.4 thinking I have OpenGL 1.3 when I have OpenGL 3.2

I went straight to the source and put together a fork that has fixes by falkTX to remove the Log In, Authorization, Downloading of Content and Text-to-Waveform features as well as a fix by taylordotfish which fixes/enables the GUI to display for the LV2

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git clone https://github.com/tank-trax/vital.git
cd vital
git checkout vitality+minus-1.0.6
make
This will produce:

- Standalone app with JACK support
- VST3 plugin
- LV2 plugin

in plugin/builds/linux_vst/ and the LV2 in plugin/builds/linux_lv2/

Presets and local store will go in the ~/.local/share/vitality+minus/ folder so as to not conflict with the Community Vitalium build

I find the VST3 to be more stable than the LV2. Here is a screenshot of the Standalone.

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