


To download Vital, visit the product page linked below and click the “Get Vital” button in the top menu. The wavetable editor is intuitive and the color scheme is fantastic. Vital is a modulation beast of a synthesizer, but it’s easy to keep track of all the modulation routings and settings. For such a complex synthesizer, it is hard (if not impossible) to imagine a more intuitive and well-organized GUI design than this. The highlight, though, is Vital’s user interface. Vital displays all active modulation routings in one place. In terms of functionality, Vital rivals (and in some cases surpasses) the most popular wavetable synthesizers on today’s market. Vital Subscription costs $5 per month and it adds exclusive first access to new features, subscriber-only perks, priority support, and monthly credits. The most advanced version called Vital Pro comes with over 400 presets, 150 wavetables, text-to-wavetable functionality, and exclusive perks. Upgrade to Vital Plus and you’re getting 250 presets, along with 70 wavetables. The free edition of Vital comes with 75 presets and 25 wavetables. Here’s a closer look at the differences between Vital Basic, Vital Plus, Vital Pro, and Vital Subscription. Users who want to purchase the full product will receive a large amount of additional content and bonus perks. Users of the free version can take full advantage of the software.

All things considered, this is an incredibly generous pricing system. The difference is in the amount of included presets and wavetables. This means that you can make the same sounds with Vital Basic (free) and Vital Pro ($80).

The core functionality is the same across all four editions of Vital. Vital is available in four differently-priced editions: Chances are that Matt Tytel’s latest plugin will be considered the best free synthesizer in the years to come. There’s no doubt that Vital is the biggest freeware VST plugin release of the year. UPDATE: The plugin download is now live! Visit the product page, sign up for a free Vital Audio user account, and download Vital. It is the second virtual instrument released by Matt Tytel, the developer behind another popular freeware synthesizer called Helm. Vital was announced two weeks ago ( click here to read our previous coverage). Matt Tytel has released Vital, a freeware spectral warping wavetable synthesizer in VST, VST3, AU, and LV2 plugin formats for digital audio workstations on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
