How to Make Hard Techno Screeches in Vital

I start off with an initialized preset. Take down the release, because we don't want any release. Then take the voices down to one so it's mono, add some glide and put it on legato, just to make sure we're not going to get screech chords. That's our setup.

You have to know a few places in Vital where you'll craft your screeches 99% of the time. The unison amount and the phase, the filters with resonance, the pitch with envelopes or LFOs, and the effects section.

If I add more unison voices it gets more detuned. The phase is how random the phase starting point is. On 100% it plays the waveform at a different spot each time. If I take it down, it plays at the same start point each time, which results in a different sound when it's detuned. You get a more lasery sound.

If you want it to sound more analog, just take down the phase a little bit. It gives it that initial click.

For the pitch you can use an envelope or an LFO. Trigger means the LFO plays whenever I trigger the sound, sync means it's playing all the time, and envelope makes it play one time. I like to put the rate on seconds instead of notes, because I can go very, very fast.

I put that LFO on sync mode and add it to the fine tune. You get a screechy sound, but it's out of pitch. Go into the matrix and put it on bipolar, so it hovers around the zero instead of going from one place to the other. It stays in key.

You can also play around with the voice transposition. 12 is an octave. I put an attack on envelope two, not one, because envelope one is volume, so we'd also be changing the volume.

Add envelope two to the voice transposition and it goes up an octave immediately. To make sure it doesn't go up too much, double click and enter a value of 12. Then change this envelope to create different screeches, like a stabby one or a dive bomb.