Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this video I show you some useful tips and tricks for making Vital's browser work the way YOU want. Plus some general tips for managing and organizing Vital's content folder.
Learn more about Vital here: https://vital.audio
This is NOT paid promotion. I've been a long-time beta tester for Vital and just love it to pieces and want to share useful tips and tricks.
If you enjoyed this video, please do me a solid and not only like the video (and subscribe to my channel), but also give me a follow on my TWO different artist accounts on Spotify! Thanks!
Baphometrix: open.spotify.com/artist/6OvuAOnVItgHAD1yuCRU8a
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soundcloud.com/baphometrix
In this video I show you some useful tips and tricks for making Vital's browser work the way YOU want. Plus some general tips for managing and organizing Vital's content folder.
Learn more about Vital here: https://vital.audio
This is NOT paid promotion. I've been a long-time beta tester for Vital and just love it to pieces and want to share useful tips and tricks.
If you enjoyed this video, please do me a solid and not only like the video (and subscribe to my channel), but also give me a follow on my TWO different artist accounts on Spotify! Thanks!
Baphometrix: open.spotify.com/artist/6OvuAOnVItgHAD1yuCRU8a
DubSkald: open.spotify.com/artist/5CuK2JuI8RmXjJ8ZQBOHQC
soundcloud.com/baphometrix






![Vital Synth Hacks and Secrets
In this video I take you on a fast-paced tour through some non-obvious hacks and secrets and shortcuts for Vital.
Learn more about Vital here: https://vital.audio
HUGE shout-out to 0.5 degrees for creating the following set of chapter markers. You rock!
0:12 Master output: red bar and (not) clipping
2:45 Kind of ignore this meter, there is no clipping below 6.4 dB
4:14 Now it starts to clip; just plain hard clipping
5:09 Set your track volume to −6.4 dB and do whatever inside Vital
6:02 Click on the oscilloscope and it becomes a spectrum analyzer
6:37 BROWSER
7:27 (Obsolete) To un-filter by pack, minimize and restore the window
9:45 Finding where do duplicates come from: right-click
11:53 Reorganize files live and Vital won’t freak out
12:56 Add underscore to a bank name to float it up in list
14:01 By default anything is saved in “User”
14:56 Cut and paste a file to move it to another bank
16:08 Menu: load or create Vital banks
16:58 …they are just ZIP archives, so you can preview what will be loaded
18:45 PARAMETERS
18:51 Hold Ctrl for finer increments
19:05 Hold Alt and click to enter a value (without right-click menu)
19:32 Double-click to reset
19:56 Hold Shift for changing semitones in octaves (±12)
20:47 OSCILLATORS
20:51 Unison: for 4 voices and more, drag little voice bars to change spread
20:13 SP[ectral] view: where do you have harmonics in your wave
23:54 …useful to make sense of spectral warping modes
26:08 FILTERS
26:12 Drive knob is loudness-compensated!
27:10 Making louder: use compressor, distortion; don’t be afraid to use master gain!
28:03 Advanced tab, click on “Hertz” to choose semitones
29:00 The default position of a peak is middle C
29:36 MODULATORS
29:52 Holding Alt turns off snapping
31:08 Double click on a modulator to remove it
31:11 Don’t drop the modulator: scroll to change amount, listen in real time
31:31 …drag it anywhere and preview other options without commiting
32:03 …holding Ctrl, Alt or Shift switches to bipolar mode
33:05 Clicking on “Smooth” in LFO allows to use fade-in time instead
33:48 Pressure and Slide are MPE signals
34:39 Lift is velocity of note-up, when available
34:51 Octave Note supplies 12 values depending on which note C C# D … B you play
37:17 Stereo applies fixed offset between L and R
39:11 Random triggers per every note
40:06 MOD MATRIX
40:30 Click the lane number to (un)bypass a modulation
40:51 Morphing knob allows simple waveshaping
41:05 Mod remap is more complex (check out the recommended video)
41:44 Modulate morph and amount
42:15 EFFECTS
42:17 Compressor: defaults are almost exactly like in OTT
43:13 Comparing to OTT
47:00 WAVETABLE EDITOR
47:24 Using a line source
48:48 Making sense of a wave source
50:21 Free-form drawing with a wave source
52:04 Line source warps other sources
53:37 Conclusion
This is NOT paid promotion. Ive been a long-time beta tester for Vital and just love it to pieces and want to share useful tips and tricks.
If you enjoyed this video, please do me a solid and not only like the video (and subscribe to my channel), but also give me a follow on my TWO different artist accounts on Spotify! Thanks!
Baphometrix: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OvuAOnVItgHAD1yuCRU8a
DubSkald: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CuK2JuI8RmXjJ8ZQBOHQC
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