Blown away by detuned saw unison, filter and compressor!!!
I have been playing with software instruments for well over a decade. But I was just blown away by the quality of just a detuned saw in Vital. If I just take a saw set the detune to 5 voices it's insane. That plus just the standard filter and compressor and I get crazy sounds, heavy and ready for some industrial pumping.
I have Serum 2, it has nice detuned saw's but it doesn't sound as good, not as organic as Vital. No matter what unison mode I tried, no matter the detuning.
I tried Dune 3 just now which I admit does have a nice filter but it still couldn't cut like Vital's filter. I tried its gausion unison which was good, but still not as fat as Vitals.
Just tried Pigments which gets close but you can hear the loop in the unison a little more. Let me specify I am playing at D1. Higher notes you get very similar sounds. I will say Pigments is the closest so far, but still sounds more thin. If I heard the two sounds without knowing what generating them I would think Pigments sounds more like a virtual instrument and Vital sounds more like some crazy hardware synth.
Vital definitely does not have all the bells & whistle's and features of some of the other soft synths out there but to me personally the core heart of a synth is the quality of its oscillators and filters and Vital (for the sounds I like) is crushing through it!!!
Is there something I am missing here? Did I not do a fair comparison of the other synths out there because I failed to replicate in them things that Vital is doing (especially with the compressor settings)? Or is Vital seriously THAT good?