 Hey, I'm Anfa and this video I would like to talk about the differences between vital and Vitalium because a lot of people have been asking this and it seems like There's a lot of confusion about this So I thought I'm going to Basically explain what the hell is going on So vital was created by Matt Titel and released as a free and open source Plugin project he has published the source code with some delay in relation to the binary Release which was a premiere and like it's a commercial product. He is giving people an Option to get it for free as a freeware product But there's also subscription and basically well it's a product and He has released the source code under a GPL license actually it's dual licensed He also says that it can be commercially licensed on upon request So he's released a source code of the initial release like it was like version 0.1.3, I believe Actually we can check that If I just Yeah, no, sorry version 1.0.6, but maybe that's a different version because vitalium has had its own Independent changes. All right back to vital. So Matt Titel has developed the vital He has published it as a commercial product, but also available as a freeware option he's created subscription Features where people can get more like presets and skins and like wavetables and different kinds of Extra content which isn't strictly necessary to use the plug-in the the freeware version as well as The paid versions all have the same functionality. The only difference is that the paid version also has Something called Where is it? text to wavetable So okay all versions have this text to wavetable, but the freeware version of vital has a limit of like five Uses of this per day. It's because it's an online service that Matt basically has to pay for so he needs to somehow, you know limit The amount of money this is gonna cost him if it's people are using this who are like not paying for the subscription so this is limited and That is vital Matt has also released the source code under new gpl license and And But he has stated he's not going to take any polar requests What does that mean is? Because he's released a source code anyone can grab it and modify it And if someone modified it they can create a pull request So request for Matt to pull in their changes to vital's source code And he said that he's not going to accept any pull requests so He's github repository So the place where all the source code he's released is stored is read only We can only get the source code, but he's not going to Accept any changes that the community does and This is where vitalium comes in because vitalium is basically a fork That is a different version of the software created as a copy initially and then maintained by different people Vitalium is a fork of the original source code that Matt Tytel has published because Well, the community wanted to do some fixes do some changes. You may also see that there is No way to do Text to wavetable. So there is no speech synthesis option available in vitalium because vitalium has no online services That's the main difference between vital and vitalium vitalium has no online services There is no login option as it is in vital. There is no text to wavetable because that's an online feature And there is no way to like install presets for vital from the online Store because vital uses accounts online accounts to have users purchase Content on the website and then it's automatically downloaded into their vital and Into their vital installation because their vital installation the plug-in is connected to their online account That's not the case with vitalium. There is no online accounts with vitalium. It's all offline It's untethered and as a result the Sun is breaking my green screen. So wait a second It's not connected to any online services by By Matt Tytel, this is also by his request Also, the difference in name is by his request that whatever is released based on the source code that he's released Cannot be named vital and cannot use the vital logo and this is very understandable because that could create a lot of confusion among his clients basically and users of the Original vital and they could like download what something that they didn't want to download and be confused and then complain to Matt That they have some problems where they're using Software that he's not really responsible before because people can modify it and introduce changes that he can't control So that's where vitalium comes in vitalium is a name that is similar to the trend of calling open-source versions of commercial products with the addendum with the suffix yume IUM So for example, the Google Chrome browser has been like the open-source version of that is called Google Chromium. Okay, not Google then Chromium there is like software development Environment by Microsoft is called VS code and an open-source version of that is called VS code yume so There's been an amazing amount of ideas thrown in the community on my community chat. There's been like probably a hundred names dropped like ideas of what we should call the fork of vital and I should probably find that and archive it because it was really funny and it was a great celebration Also a great like appreciation of Matt's generosity because he spent years making this synthesizer and he's released the source code for everyone and Thanks to that we can have vitalium which is open-source It's it's free software in the deepest meaning of the word. It's not just freeware. It's free software and That is great Another difference between vital and vitalium is that Matt has not been updating the source code. So The vital has probably some changes some New things or improvements, maybe some bug fixes that are not yet present in vitalium A vital is it right now at version 1.0.8. I've just downloaded this version There doesn't seem to be any large visual changes like there's the same effects Like the matrix Mod matrix looks the same advanced settings I also don't see any any changes in here. We can compare it to a Vitalium We have the same effects The major the mod matrix looks exactly the same and advanced settings Exactly the same The main difference you can see is the default color scheme. So vital uses this nice light violet and green and Vitalium uses orange is yellow instead of the thing and that's Because of the logo and the interesting thing about the logo is that I designed this and I pitched this to Matt as an original Idea for the logo for vital because I've been in collaboration with him I reached out when he announced on his blog years ago that he's working on a new synth and I I reached out and I said Hey, what's that new synth you're making? I want to I want to know I've talked in detail about this on my presentation on sony convention One of the events of the summit convention and I give an a presentation of the then current state of vital before release It's a it was a beta version. It's a bit different from what is here now and what is vitalium presenting now So that was a logo I designed for vital originally, but Matt has had someone else design a logo And I think the vital logo is really nice. It's Yeah, sorry, I think it's really cool. It looks great But once vitalium was created actually by folk TX There was a need for new logo and I said, hey, I have this all design. I've made laying around. Let's use that So we'll use that and because of the orange yellowish yellowish orange color. I've used that folk TX have modified the default theme to reflect that in the In the main like accent color Which I think it's nice because you can also immediately see the difference between vital and vitalium like You just you know It's immediately visible All right, so that's pretty much the differences between the two so vital is Maintained by Matt Tytel and it's his original creation. It's tethered to his online account online services and It's it's receiving updates from him directly while vitalium is an open source project based on his original source code released but Maintained by different people basically this project is maintained by folk TX Who is also a maintainer of KX studio creator of Carla of condense a lot of great open source software? All your open source software. I'm using daily and It doesn't have the online Things but basically it has all everything else is identical Also vitalium doesn't come with many Default presets or samples and stuff. So when you open it up Like you don't really have presets at all. I've created these myself and I've supplied some and Basically we as a community we need to create some basic presets and then send them to the maintainer folk TX and just Ask him to include them So people installing vitalium can have some default presets because right now they pretty much don't It's a very bare bare bare bones very minimum, but you have all the tools you can create your own Yeah, so That's it really. I hope you this covers it I've been talking about these things in my live streams or or some longer videos, but I saw many people were asking about the differences Yeah, that's pretty much by My no not all of them are mine. No, these are all mine presets. Okay. Yeah, I Think the presets come together with vitalium, but Not necessarily the other stuff. All righty, that's all thanks for watching. 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