Sylenth1 vs Vital
Specs, price and the Dubspot Score, side by side — with our verdict on which synth to buy.
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Specs compared
| Sylenth1 | Vital | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €139 | $25 |
| Dubspot Score | — | — |
| Formats | VST, VST3, AU, AAX | VST, VST3, AU (Audio Units), LV2, Standalone |
| Synth engine | Virtual analog (subtractive) | — |
| Oscillators | 4 alias-free unison oscillators; up to 8 unison voices each (32 voices per note) | — |
| Polyphony | 16 notes (up to 512 voices simultaneously) | — |
| Filters | 2 filter sections, each with 4 filter stages and nonlinear saturation | — |
| Effects | Arpeggiator, distortion, phaser, chorus/flanger, EQ, delay, reverb, compressor | — |
| Presets | Over 2,500 presets included | — |
| 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 |
| Modulation | — | LFOs, envelopes and randomized sources with stereo modulation, remappable curves, audio-rate modulation, and keytracked LFOs |
| 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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