I am absolutely enamered with Phase Plant. It's like having a modular system without having to know how to patch all of the modules together manually.

phaseplant is so great when it comes to being creative. it has literally no limitations at all. you can add and change stuff until your cpu starts to burn, which makes it stand out for me.

@jensenraylight8011

Жыл бұрын

you have to outgrow Vital and Serum first before you can be super good at Phase plant. you have to exactly know what you wanted, the precision that you want to achieve. or else, the amount of options just slow you down and make you a bad Producers.

@brzi4459

Жыл бұрын

@@jensenraylight8011 of course the knowledge and experience in using a synth has to be given, but for someone who can do that phase plant is unbeatable imo

@DarkTrapStudio

Жыл бұрын

@@jensenraylight8011 As a neophyte in synthesis I find phaseplant easier

@mechwarreir2

7 ай бұрын

@@jensenraylight8011 Phaseplant can't FM a comb filter, and only has 2 limited effects in the generators. Only Vital/Serum can do that through resynthesis. Infact, wavetable resynthesis allows you to do Modular, but with just 2 oscillators and no complex modular logic gates.

@blackskeleton7817

6 ай бұрын

​@@mechwarreir2 phaseplant literally has feedback fm and am, you can fm your filters, and you get 3 lanes of tons more effects than serum or vital - id say in no world can serum or vital outdo phaseplants capabilities thats on top of having wavetable editors built in, granular synthesis, way more advanced modulation (well, not including the serum lfo shape modulation, which still isnt quite as good as the wavetable lfos that phaseplant has) AND nested effect chains with multipass and snap heap just cuz phaseplant doesnt have a button to resample to wavetable directly doesnt mean much when you can render yourself and drop the sample back in as a wavetable

RIP Massive

@reaktiv1408

3 жыл бұрын

Mmhh matter of taste, Massive X is really powerful and great sounding, even if it has limits in the wavetables department though (compared to those synths of course)

@moosikman4656

3 жыл бұрын

Nah I think this vid is about wavetable synths...

@meru_lpz

3 жыл бұрын

@@moosikman4656 Massive is a wavetable synth!

@moosikman4656

3 жыл бұрын

@@meru_lpz oops, i meant 'wavetable-scanning' synths...

@thewest6128

3 жыл бұрын

He was buried with the release of Serum 5 years ago or so ...

I love how Kilohearts has developed not only Phaseplant as a whole synth with ultra amounts of customization but also allowed for direct access to each individual effect within the synth as a stand-alone plugin, allowing you to use the effects without loading the whole synth up and gives you incredible depth. Especially in DAWs like Live, Reason, and Bitwig that have ultra-high manipulation of MIDI and Audio effects, matrix editing, and effects creation like Max for Live.

Oh this is exactly what I needed, showing the VSTs side by side and not much talking, just actual showing

Nice! I like all 3 of these synths, great comparison. I like that you were more objective about their differences rather than biased. I think this video really showcases how powerful Vital actually is

Super clean and professional video, mate. Loved it

love the vocal-feature in vital. such a satisfying glowing sound

Excellent presentation - so clear!! Thank you.

So rare to see facts and not opinion. Thank you👏🏾👏🏾

Au top la Vidéo, c'est exactement ce qu'il me fallait pour débroussailler les spécialités de chacun de ses synthés virtuel! Bravo très clair :)

phaseplant looks like so much fun to play with the left/right effects processing is too cool

I'm a serum user and just recently started using vital.. thanks man for the review video 👍

Amazing video production!

Awesome video, big timesaver, thank you!!

kudos for the edu quality in all synths and the intro :)

Phaseplant is the most innovative right now IMHO...Serum leaded the way back then. but my favorite has become Massive X because I did gel with UI , to each of his own I guess. Anyway, great comparison video, thanks!

This video is such high quality!

Although, all three are powerful and useful in their own right, I feel, in terms of FEATURES, Phaseplant takes the cake ! But, then, Vital has just been launched and is, already, being stacked against potent competitors !

My journey has been Massive into Zebra2 then Vital and now I just bought Phase Plant and I love it!

Vital went opensource some days ago, it's just matter of time to see that some madlad turns Vital into something more like Phaseplant or add more filters/effects into the plugin.

phaseplant looks super powerful, serum has become a standard, but vital kicks their ass based only on one thing...its free or if you want to help the developer, 20$ which is what i did. i like the way vital works too...its very quick workflow

@kaafaa5944

3 жыл бұрын

its easy to be better when u copy the other

@visheshl

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaafaa5944 who copied ? wavetable synthesis is not new serum doesn't have a copyright for wavetable synthesis...

@kaafaa5944

3 жыл бұрын

@@visheshl its a serum ' like'', same window, macro etc

@visheshl

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaafaa5944 lots of synths are like each other in the market

@kaafaa5944

3 жыл бұрын

@@visheshl yeah i know,even Daw its nice to copy for evoluate. In hardware too, with berhinger, but here the problem is, they said " serum killer " " bye Serum" They did the same with Sylenth (2006)

5:40 It’s not very well known, but serum actually has a feature that allows heater audio right modulate almost any parameter! if you right click on any modulate double parameter in serum, you’ll notice there is an option to use the noise Oscar as a mod source. So yeah if you have a single cycle wave or any pitched sound in there boom, really powerful audio rate craziness. (If you don’t mind pinning this or a common with the same information that would be pretty cool as I feel like more people should know this :P)

@prod.spirits

Жыл бұрын

Noise osc? Screw that, try using the hidden chaos knob.

@KnzoVortex

Жыл бұрын

@@prod.spirits Chaos knob is a random value generating modulator and pretty well known if you've cared to look all of Serum's four operating pages. Noise Osc is literally a sample player, and can thus be any audio rate (Like FM, with a high pitched osc but for any modulation source, not just pitch) signal even with convenient pitch tracking, to any serum parameter. Way bigger deal and way more underrated

only phase plant has space invaders inside :)

@Ares_God89

2 жыл бұрын

👾 👾 👾 👾

It was really interesting thank you!

very informative, thanks!

thanks! first time in years that i am even interested in trying out a new vst... 😉🙏🏼

great video mate

OK, so you're saying I need all three of these. Gotcha. :)

Thank you for all these functions i discovered. Much work to do to know what to activate for a given result, but sound design is a stairway to ... somewhere.

I remember this video. I watched it when I was thinking of buying Phase Plant after the use of Vital. The free Vital is an incredible gift to the world. AND I can tell nothing else after a year Phase Plant is really a dream, easy to use but sophisticated enough and the next version (2.0) will be ultimate ;)

vital have slider under wavetable when something like bend used in this osc (but not FM or RM), this is very cool feature which gives unique sound

Damn, this was a nice comparsion! Which one would you choose if you need to choose only one and why?

well done thank you

General Grievous in the back: Your synthesizer will make a fine addition to my collection!

i have all 3, and even if i like Vital and Phaseplant, Serum is still the one i use more

I'd love to see you compare Pigments, Phase Plant and Current.

As French person you just made me cry with laughter with this "si si gros, bien ou bien?" AHAHAH

@DeadlyLivelys

3 жыл бұрын

mdrrrrrrrrrr

Even on the free version Vital is a fully functional vst. Phase Plant is amazing for someone more serious into sound design, the FX section is actually good. Serum was very important to evolution of soft synths and there is so much content available. However I feel like it has stagnated and isn't that innovative anymore. I'm excite to see how Matt handles the ongoing development of Vital. It's very competitive with Serum and it will only grow to be even better over time.

@VeganKebabDoRuky

3 жыл бұрын

I'm curious how Serum 2.0 will turn out, I own all three synths so raising the bar on competition is a triple win for me haha

you can change the display in Vital to Hertz in the Advanced section....I thought seconds were weird too as default.

Damn it man.... Now I Want All THREE !!!!!!!

@gtamediaproductions1

8 ай бұрын

Why? You only need one.

Just downloaded Vital yesterday for frew and made some sick growls

@CosmicHarmony58

Жыл бұрын

ya right kid 😂😂 couldn’t even ride a elephant in south Australia if ur spider 🕷️ can even drink 😂🙃😘😘😘

Phase plant is incredible.

What I'm seeing is that it would be seriously difficult to pick one of these, so you may as well get them all =)

What about Synthmaster? It never shows up in the comparisons

@Overxpossed

3 жыл бұрын

ahha it was a nice starting point, which got stuck.

@Keroser1983

3 жыл бұрын

I own that as well. It is kind of left behind especially with GUI and UX. But I believe version 3 will be a hit.

Serum also has a vocoder

So, buy all three, load them in to a group rack, ....Profit!?

7:16 this needs to be a song

gr8 vid and sure interesting reading , phase planet is genius but i thought it sounds a bit plastic / no grit

One problem i have with vital, that hasnt been fixed yet are the filters. They are very ringy which is cool for messed up glitch spunds but if you wanna do something clean with loads of distortion it is a pain in the ass

Si si gros, bien ou bien?! Ca fait plaisir!

"si si gros, bien ou bien" magnifique xd

All of these work for any dubstep bass

ngl Serum and Phaseplant seem epic but they're expensive and Vital is free so if serum and/or phaseplant's price is ok for u then go for it but i just prefer vital. So much simpler yet effective so if ur noob at sound design or if ur on a low budget totally go for vital

frère t'es un génie le si si gros bien ou bien j'étais k.o. technique au sol

@Masteryfi

3 жыл бұрын

Mdrr ça ma fumé

Arturia Pigments is missing from the comparison...

Still a serum fan (:

I WANT ALL 3

@VeganKebabDoRuky

3 жыл бұрын

Vital - Free Serum - Rent on splice for 9.99 a month Phase Plant - Get the complete Khs bundle on a sale or for a 9.99 monthly subscription (but you don't pay towards ownership like Splice, still a good deal if you can't spend so much money at once, considering everything you get is very high quality and simple to use).

Would have been really useful to include how power hungry they are. I own all 3 so here's my experience while running an i7 8750h. Phase plant is by far the most power hungry, even with a decent cpu I have difficulty playing complex and polyphonic patches in real time. If Plant wasn't so power hungry I would use it a lot more. Serum is pretty well optimized, I only ever run into issues if I crank up the unison and play many notes at a time. Vital Is also pretty well optimized. Like Serum, I only have issues if I have many oscillators going at a time, however vital also has different oscillator resolutions so even if you have a less powerful cpu you should still be able to use it at the expense of some audio quality. (phase plant and serum might have that option as well. I haven't found it though)

Um sintetizador que eu estou apaixonado é o Razor da native instruments, um sintetizador subestimado

I just bought serum, I hope your video will not give me regrets

@SirioTV

3 жыл бұрын

serum was my best synth, but now i think vital is more powerfull

@odealianaffairs9001

3 жыл бұрын

you still have a few advantages with serum over vital, however downloading the free version of vital would not hurt.

So which one sounds better........ which is better overall.

@VeganKebabDoRuky

3 жыл бұрын

All three sound great. Although I think there's objectively a winner here in some circumstance, which is Phase Plant since you can enable polyphony on effects, meaning each individual note is processed separately. This matters because if yo have a huge detuned patch that plays chords, using let's say distortion on the overall signal and each separate note is a difference of day and night. Other than that, you can simply choose based on your preference.

Serum LFO: 100Hz Phase Plant LFO: 50Hz Surge LFO: 512Hz

@kimyona9746

3 жыл бұрын

Straight up extratones anything lol

@bluefire9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimyona9746 haha

@bluefire9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimyona9746 too bad Surge doesn't have a phase knob. But maybe soon the devs will add it

@bluefire9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimyona9746 *correction it's actually 512

@KnzoVortex

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluefire9113 It’s a very popular request, I think I heard it’s going to be implementing one of these days.

Try Surge! I have never found a free synth that can give me a keytrack yoi bass but Surge. It wasnt free from 2005 until 2018. Try it.

@adriano_sp

3 жыл бұрын

yep, Surge is VERY good

@bluefire9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@adriano_sp keep updating it. Update 1.9 coming soon

@anthonymetcalf660

3 жыл бұрын

I tried 1.9 beta. Surge will soon surpass all three I am convinced. It will never stop improving and it's going fast. I actually like it much more already.

@bluefire9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymetcalf660 i wont try the beta just yet. Just gonna let the excitement build up

@VeganKebabDoRuky

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymetcalf660 Technically speaking Surge cannot surpass Phase Plant, but I wouldn't mind if they'd pulled off a miracle since I do like Surge and use it a sparingly.

You forgot to mention that in Vital you can modulate modulations... thats a big point for Vital.

@TTROPVNR

2 жыл бұрын

not possible in phaseplant?

@08js45

Жыл бұрын

@@TTROPVNR it is

@ajax6380

10 ай бұрын

also in serum

So an hourglass is called sand, what do you call sand?

phase plant is the best

J'avais même pas capté que tu était Français je suis choqué !

@Woochia

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, et pourtant :p

Since I am running Vital on NUENDO 11, Vital is Lagging and freezing a lot.

@NyoraiFidesTV

3 жыл бұрын

There's a workaround for that until this bug will be fix. Go on your VST3 folder and delete Vital VST3. Like that Nuendo will automatically use the VST2 version and that works perfectly

Serum can also talk btw

Vital is the best of course.

Think kilohearts is the best there, And can be cheap bundle when on sale. Vital I'd give 2nd place just because its free. Serum 3rd, As its not a bad synth, But its price point has never changed. Its never on sale, And for how much it cost when compared to the Phase Plant bundle on sale is equally as much... Way more bang for buck for Phase Plant plus 33 modules....

I feel like a child for laughing at 3:43

What about Arturia Pigments 2 ?

Sin duda alguna, lo mejor es tener todos a la vez..

Phase 🪴 takes the 🍪

I have serum I hardly ever even use it. I use expand 2, the synthmaster family, nexus 2, track god 2 and hermes 2 alot in my productions, alot with some sweet effects plugins like half time, supermassive, parametric eq 2 Fl, voodoo for guitars, among a whole variety of other things. I honestly don't even use serum effects. Sometimes I dont even remember I have it, sad.. Lolol sorry serum...

You forgot Dune 3 from synapse audio

I didn't think Serum had a good enough sound engine. Phase Plant sounds much better to my old ears. Not tried Vital yet.

i didnt even know there was a ttwt lmao

great video thanks :) love the tempo no need to put on 1.5 speed :) Merci

I use Surge. Vital is fine but RAM and CPU hungry.

@anthonymetcalf660

3 жыл бұрын

I think Surge is actually better... secretly

Wait, but serum can also speak, you have to edit the wavetable, and then you type any word in the (enter formula) bar. It's not accurate, but still can speak, if you turn the wavetable slowly.

@moosikman4656

3 жыл бұрын

@@Woochia haha it's a great thing to note

@moosikman4656

3 жыл бұрын

@@Woochia well, I've seen people lowering octaves and semitones, and process it, eventually making Thier own professional vocals, it's crazy and amazing, and since there's Vital now...

@kaafaa5944

3 жыл бұрын

with voyel filter

Best vital feature:- It is free

@necrobynerton7384

2 жыл бұрын

And considering it is pretty comparable head to head with serum, that is, phenomenal for being free

Vital is hated/disliked by peole who just bought one of those two synthesizers :D

@LorneSound

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen any person hating it

@niczvr

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know anyone that hates vital

@micro6555

3 жыл бұрын

Who hates free stuff?

Phaseplant seems like gods wet dream ...unintentionally mine too

You can make Serum talk bro you forgot

Then what about VPS avenger?

@paradoxic1888

3 жыл бұрын

Extremely underrated synth. It really is the only synth you'll ever need. I support Vital's approach though, while being free with the option to purchase full version with presets and unlimited TTWT, it allows everyone to experience this fun tool, while simultaneously creating much-needed exposure. VPS Avenger undermarketed themselves, is quite expensive, and has licensing software running on your PC. Regardless, it's so good that I had to buy it, and I don't regret it.

@moosikman4656

3 жыл бұрын

@@paradoxic1888 yeah I agree, kinda a waste of money, but yeah, still a synth...

It's actually nuts to think serum was 2014 thing and is still the best in some departments.

Vital does micro-tonality.

Vital: 0.001 second LFO = 1000Hz/1KHz

Bien ou bien sarbi

Phaseplant UI is kind of uggly idk, I prefer the Vital UI

@Davidthe1ne

Жыл бұрын

What about serum?

You can load snapheap in Phaseplant's lane? Talk about too much, jesus...

Arturia Pigments?

RIP Serum..lol

with a price tag of $80 its hard not to recommend Vital over the other plugins, you don't even need to pay 80, 25 is just as good. Serum is great and has a fantastic workflow, but comparing the price tags, it's hard to recommend. I know this is a unpopular opinion, but phaseplant is just overpriced comparing it to what else there's on the market. I do like the approach they are going for in sound design but is it really worth paying $418 more than Serum, keep in mind vital is much cheaper than serum too. I wish that people would stop normalizing these ridiculous prices.

@NoNameLeft1500

3 жыл бұрын

phaseplant is not 418 or whatever that must be the ultimate box.... where every plugin is included... those are differend plugins.. the thing with khz plugins is you can combine them alltogether which is pretty nice... well every effect is a seperate plugin and can used as single plugin anywhere in your mixer ... phaseplant alone costs just 169 when not in sale.. and the complete bundle 349 and you get discounts if you already have parts of the bundle...

@xDanishGamerz

3 жыл бұрын

@@NoNameLeft1500 Like I said, I wish you wouldn't normalize the insane price tag of Phaseplant. You can't win me over. 169 is way too much for a plugin that is competing with over 100 of just as capable plugins. The biggest problem in the music industry is that people who isn't willing to buy overpriced plugins are cracking them, people who are willing to pay for over priced plugins will do so and defend the price tag like its their baby and that's just unhealthy for the amateur music industry. I hope that what matt have done here is showing that people who otherwise would download vsts illegally will turn over and buy the plugins instead if the price is right.

@NoNameLeft1500

3 жыл бұрын

@@xDanishGamerz well I didn't bought it for 169 either but in a sale where it was 50% off or so... however Serum is more expansive with its 189... so price tag wise I think there is no logic phaseplant costs less then serum... And I personally don't think it's overpriced... there went alot of development into those stuff... yes there are some occasional free plugins out there which are absolute top quality wise... and that is amazing... but I don't think 169 for Phaseplant is overpriced... especially not when serum costs 189... I think those are fair prices as long as the quality and features support that price... I can totally understand the argument of overpricing when it comes to some companies who sell plain and simple full parametric EQs for over 500$ or so.. then I also think wtf ?!?! whats going on here? but for those we talk about I think the prices are ok... and like I said.. I think every company does sells and deals from time to time so if you are patient you usually can get everything to a much lower price Just think about how complex those synths are today and all that needs to be coded and in a way that it runs flawlessly and perfomance optimized (hopefully) without compromising the sound quality... those synths today are amazing.. it's fair that they cost a bit of money.... and if they don't well thats absolutely amazing.. and great.. but shouldn't be received as the norm... it is absolutely amazing what matt did yes... developing such great synth and give it out for free... thats wow.. but shouldn't be received as how it should be but as a very special gift.. or so yes there are companies out there that do alot overpricing and where the product is more marketing babble then product... and I don't like those either.. but I can't say that serum or phaseplant are one of those... however I don't try to turn you over... but I don't know if we mean the same plugin... khz phaseplant.. that semi modular synth... well I know a few synths that tend to go in that direction .. zebra for example (which isn't cheap either) but after that I already need to think hard.. I wouldn't say there are 100s of comparable plugins... "as capable" is a bit of a strange term... capable of what.. or maybe you didn't digged deep enough into phaseplant yet... have you tried the demo? ... I think you have a misconception of phaseplant and what is and what it can do.. and what you can do with it.. yes there are things it can't do like those warping/morphing modulators for wavetable... but on the other hand it can do a lot which the others can't I think there is a reason for all 3 of them to exist..

@mobius7745

3 жыл бұрын

@@xDanishGamerz I think it's fine, the people that has money will pay for whatever the price is, people that doesn't have the money most likely even if it was cheap they would still pirate it because of how easy it is to do that (if you know how to do it). Also I don't think it's overpriced, audio engineering has a lot of work involved in it, Phaseplant especially not only with audio but with everything else, they have amazing support, amazing design, etc. To me it makes sense for Phaseplant to be the most expensive of the 3 because you really get what you pay for.

"Phaseplant is the only one with all controls on one tab" *opens LFO window, and Multipass window. So that was fucking lie.

Massive > serum/phaseplant/vital it's from over a decade ago and I still think it's relevant!

@Kevinschart

2 жыл бұрын

lot's of things you can't do in massive that can easily do in the new 3. exponential envelope curves is a basic feature that massive doesn't have. No global pitch mod in massive. I still use massive but it's not better than the new synths.