What can Serum do that Vital can’t (and vice versa) – Instruments Forum

Haven’t read the other replies, but 2 things stand out to me:

Vital has 2 filters.

Vital has 3 oscillators. Although Serum technically does too, with its sub osc, but there’s a difference – see my next item.

Vital can technically do more FM between oscillators. While Serum can use the sub osc for FM, there’s a key difference – Vital can use the 3 osc and FM between 2 of them (OSC3 FM OSC1, OSC2 FM OSC1) AND modulate pitch… and with Serum, using the sub osc as an FM source, you cannot modulate the pitch of the sub (you can, but only the octaves). Why does this matter? My best growl I’ve created uses OSC3->FM->OSC1, OSC2->FM->OSC1, and pitch change OSC1, OSC2 (if I recall), and this sequences you cannot do in Serum (because you can’t modulate the fine tuning of the pitch of the sub osc).

Probably meaningless to everyone, but there’s some merit to this for me.