VITAL : FM Tutorial And Tips

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Hello here is a video about some tips and tricks in vital to get the most out of fm!

[@GarronsMusic]

Thanks for watching! :D Dont forget to like and subscribe if you liked it! it helps me alot! Let me know if you'd like to see more videos like this! :)

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

Yee yee

[@mattstroker3742]

Hi Garron! Could you go more in depth with some examples on what you are doing in the last couple of minutes in this video? Giving the sounds more width. Cause I've gone over the last quarter of the video a couple of times now, but I cannot quite follow. However, I do hear the sounds gain a beautiful depth/width by doing what you are doing there. Would be nice if you could give noobs like me a bit of an extra push in the right direction on this. Thanks for the materials so far!

[@platipo]

Nice video. The aliasing caused by audio rate modulations is one of the good reasons to consider increasing the oversampling in the advanced tab. I really love Vital for FM stuff, especially because of the mod remapping feature; you can make several harmonically related FM /RM/ PM operators out of a single LFO, which is well... huge in my book

[@GarronsMusic]

Thank you for the information! I just started getting deep into vital in the last few days! I'm amazed at alot of the stuff it can do especially with the mod remapping stuff!

[@platipo]

@@GarronsMusic well... then if you allow me some shameless self promotion, I recommend checking out my videos, I've been doing quite a bunch about Vital... and more importantly, Data Broth's :) his long sound design sessions are interesting, though kinda tedious to follow, but in the short ones he's really given some precious advice.

[@GarronsMusic]

I’ll definitely check your videos out! I’ll sub to your channel now 😁 definitely interested to see what other people are doing with it! I’m familiar with data broth! I came across a video he had doing sound design in surge a couple of months ago I think! 😃

[@drewnosky5892]

This synth is so versatile :0

[@rayderrich]

Thank you for showing some useful tips. This video went straight into my "How To Design Sounds" playlist.

[@cthecheese1620]

You mentioned the wind in the background and how you were quite safe, and that caught me off guard enough that my mind went producing some epic wobbles that blew you out of your chair for some reason.

[@funkbungus137]

thank god you're safe. my heart was a flutter for just a little little tiny bit there.

[@deanandthebeans857]

Great stuff - very useful, thanks!

[@davidpetersonharvey]

Sweet! Man, this tutorial is just what I needed. Much love from Houston, Texas!

[@The_Mercian]

Loved the LFO tips, man! Great stuff. Also, thank you for inventing the international hand sign for Nyquist artifacts, lol (15:45)

[@GarronsMusic]

I’m happy if that’s all I get to write on my gravestone 😂

[@peterelfman]

Tremendous. Vital is insanely powerful! Thanks for making this video, it opened my eyes to the concept of using the oscillators for FM.

[@Vintagestep]

It was super helpful, if you're not using FM you're missing such a big functionality of this synth, and I didn't know that. TY

[@davehkhed]

Really nice tutorial. Thank you :)

[@regimiro4888]

great video! thanks so much

[@ivanshallal5980]

Thank you Garron! This tutorial is amazing! I had no idea how expressive fm synthesis could be

[@NIRVANABLEACH2]

Thanks for the tutorial man. I was having a hard time creating sounds but this helped a lot. Making nice sounds is harrrrsssshhhh...

[@jessbmarc]

dog I just watched you slag some people on TikTok and now I'm watching you teach FM synthesis 🤣 cheers

[@peridotisreal]

this video was a huge frickin help in terms of knowledge and pure inspiration too! as someone whos been using vital for years now, and just getting into FM, thanks from all of us :) definitely going to check out the rest of your channel, gladly subbed :D

[@BeckySaifMusic]

Lovely stuff. A pleasure to watch. Subscribed!

[@lukasj.harpman8734]

Dude FM Synthesis loooks amazing, deffo gonna try this out soon! One little thing tho is that at around 7:20 you said the third oscillator was tuned a 5th above the second one (17), but a 5th is actually 7 notes, so 5 above 12 will give you a 4th (17) while 7 above 12 (19) is a 5th. Just a slight nitpick but the rest of the video is class!

[@GarronsMusic]

Ooopsie!

[@kadamitas]

Thank you for this tutorial! Vital has so many things that are not explicitly shown in the UI like microtonality support, it's hard to find where things are.

[@senecamontezdeoca3434]

That sound at the end was sick!

[@adriandanks6947]

Great vid. Thanks man. That lead sound at 19.34 is exactly the type of sound I'm looking for.

[@adriandanks6947]

And I've just realised it's very Depeche Mode

[@fatemeetsluck]

This is exactly what I was looking for thank you so much.

[@kn1ghttimemusic]

Thank you for this, I needed this video for the dubstep part. You earned a like, and my subscription.

[@JakkeJakobsen]

Got yourself a sub for this vid alone! Very good explanation of FM/PM, and clever use of the LFOs! Vital is insane, and seeing as the base version is free, its even more insane!

[@Flux_One]

Fantastic information. Thanks for sharing

[@justinjones9719]

awesome video!! thank you so much for helping me understand fm and vital more!

[@craigburton4447]

Scores exceptionally high on the useful info / minute scale

[@qwetjxjdjdcjdjxjd]

exactly what I was looking for thank you!

[@samsei]

awesome tutorial, thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@bellsquare6766]

Great tutorial man, you really know your stuff. Looking forward to more

[@blueeyedcat3443]

Ohhh good, THANKS!

[@mattkaz9604]

Good video. I hadn't seen this software, and haven't used vstis in a while, but I just downloaded it and it's pretty amazing.

[@Nuwidmusic]

So amazing man! i hope you do more Vital tutorials in the future! Definetly subscribed ;)

[@GarronsMusic]

Thanks man! More coming this week! 😃

[@daniel_ivw]

Holy moly this was good

[@starcoreart]

thank you so much! i learned a lot.

[@H-MF]

Thanks from a Vital-beginner :)

[@Maris_Hvidt]

Thank you very mutch for the video.

[@k4rim865]

Damnnn Thanks! Didn't even know this was a thing. Great tutorial also!

[@joneswebs]

Great vid. Learn a lot from it.

[@rogozamihaioficial4779]

I just subscribed

[@DaveFore_AudioEngineering]

Super helpful!

[@RazzaGB]

Great tutorial

[@trevor_mounts_music]

Gonna make some sick FM donk basses with this 👍🏼

[@marceloribeirosimoes8959]

Great! Do you think you can get the TX81z Lately Bass sound on Vital?

[@nuhadyusuf]

Thank you a lot. That would be great for a SEGA 16-bit tunes

[@birdsiview6845]

Do you think you can create some crash cymbals and ride cymbals in this fashion? Haven’t seen it done yet.

[@nebyusamuel7858]

whoa!! this is very interesting stuff

[@PeteGunnShow]

Is this kind of set up going to be impacted by the phase randomization? If so how does it change things. You might go over this wventually cause im not done with the video

[@tarjiband9904]

Very cool video. But u forgot to mention that when u tune your modulator to anything inharmonic, u lose the tune. For example your key sound at the very end is very out of tune. Generally that's when samplers come into play. We can make the sound out if tune with the timbre we want and then make a one shot out of it and transpose it.

[@cannercrebes2262]

13:00 game changer

[@martin_quarto]

Is VITAL purely an FM synthesizer? I thought it was interesting when you said that FM was used mostly for bell-like sounds

[@GarronsMusic]

Vital is primarily a subtractive wavetable synth. FM was originally known for its ability to make bell like / metallic sounds because those sound are almost impossible to achieve with traditional subtractive synthesis 😃

[@raulacevedo-esteves9493]

Sample the rain and add it to the track.😁

[@lowonempathy8489]

Can you make ATB, Topic, A7S - Your Love (9PM) synth in vital or surge?!

[@GarronsMusic]

You mean the lead synth?

[@lowonempathy8489]

@@GarronsMusic hat brassy deep sounding pad :D

[@theunconciousmind7314]

Its all about unision

[@griiseknoen]

4:22 -ish... Come on! Turn down the *output* level of oscillator 3 !!! 🤣 (Otherwise, quite a good tutorial. *Very* good, in fact.)

[@GarronsMusic]

Sorry it’s easy to lose track of what I’m doing when I’m talking so much 😂

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

Does Vital do true Freq modulation or is it just Phase modulation

[@GarronsMusic]

I believe it’s Phase modulation between oscillators, you can sort of do true FM with the LFO thing I showed!

[@platipo]

You can do it, you can do some linear pitch modulation, which translates to exponential FM, or mess your LFO shapes to make it linear or however you like, you can keep it symmetrical, make it asymmetrical... Whatever suits your sonic desires :)

[@rehder7500]

Garron in lead 19:38 this lfo2 and lfo3 are triangle or edited for effect of string and lfo2 and lfo3 3 used in which part the synthesis:phase, cutoff,transpose? you send me preset of chords

[@relaxingsounds1386]

I try to follow but all you guys start dragging and dropping things around so fast, I get lost.

[@thelastgatoo3089]

● HOW MANY OSCILLATORS DOES VITAL HAVE? 🎛

[@levyonthetrack]

3 🐈