Vital is a free eyecatching spectral warping wave table synth plugin

>Vital is a new spectral warping wave table synth plugin that’s been in development for some time. Promising to “give new life to wave tables,” it’s now available and you can use it in its basic form for free. The spectral warping features enable you to play with a waveform’s harmonics – stretch, shift smear and skew them to create all kinds of different timbres and sounds. You can turn your own samples into wavetables, create them from scratch using the wavetable editor, or generate them from text. The oscillators themselves are said to have a low noise floor and almost no aliasing, with optimisations keeping them light on your CPU. There’s a drag-and-drop stereo modulation system, along with MPE support. Vital looks the part, too, with animated controls running at 60fps.

All in all, it’s a pretty interesting proposition, particularly as you can try the basic version – with 75 presets and 25 wavetables – for free.

The $25 Plus version gives you 250 presets and 70 wavetables, while the $80 Pro version offers more than 400 presets and 150 wavetables, plus unlimited text-to-wavetable generation, prioritised support and an exclusive Discord perk. You can also subscribe for $5 a month to get all of this plus first access to new features and new plugins. Vital runs on PC, Mac and Linux.