Plugin comparison
Specs, price and the Dubspot Score, side by side — with our verdict on which synth to buy.
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Contenders
Materia is AudioThing's additive re-synthesizer: it breaks any sample into up to 96 harmonic partials and rebuilds it as a playable, editable instrument.
Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer by Matt Tytel for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Technical matrix
| Signal | Materia | Vital |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 39 euros (intro, from 69) | $25 |
| Dubspot Score | — | 9.0 |
| Formats | VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP | VST, VST3, AU (Audio Units), LV2, Standalone |
| Engine | Additive resynthesis, up to 96 harmonic partials | — |
| Per-partial control | Frequency, amplitude, phase and a 128-point envelope each | — |
| Analysis | Advanced Analysis, Sync Partial Edits, Add Empty Partials | — |
| Filter | 10 types (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, formant and more) | — |
| Effects | Resonator (pipes/plates/springs), echo, phaser, waveshaper | — |
| Modulation | 2 envelopes, 2 LFOs with drawable shapes | LFOs, envelopes and randomized sources with stereo modulation, remappable curves, audio-rate modulation, and keytracked LFOs |
| Platforms | macOS 10.13+, Windows 7+, Ubuntu 20.04+ | — |
| Synthesis type | — | Spectral warping wavetable synthesis |
| Operating systems | — | Windows 10+, macOS 10.15+ (Intel or Apple Silicon), Ubuntu Linux 18.04+; 64-bit only, OpenGL 3+ |
| Wavetable tools | — | Pitch-splice and vocode wavetable converters, plus text-to-wavetable generation |
| Tuning and MPE | — | Microtonal support (.tun, .scl, .kbd files) and full MPE support |
| Included content | — | Basic: 75 presets / 25 wavetables; Plus: 250 / 70; Pro: 400+ / 150 |
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