Sound to Synth Preset: AI resynthesis for Audial Synth

Resynthesis turns a sound into a synth patch. Upload a one-shot of up to 20 seconds and Audial's hosted engine returns a .vital preset whose oscillators, filters and envelopes are set to reproduce it, plus a render so you can hear how close the match is.

Because the result is a preset and not a sample, every parameter stays editable. Open it in Audial Synth, a free GPLv3 fork of the Vital wavetable synth with a Resynth panel built in, and take the sound somewhere else: detune it, filter it, re-envelope it, play it across the keyboard. Audial Synth installs as VST3, AU or a standalone app on macOS from the downloads page.

Each run also returns two keyboard renders and a JSON report with a similarity score for the match. Jobs typically finish in 60 to 250 seconds. Call it from the Resynth tab, from audial.sound2vital in Python, from /functions/run/sound2vital, or as the sound2vital MCP tool.

What you get

• Any one-shot up to 20 seconds becomes an editable .vital preset
• Parameters stay editable, so this is a patch and not a sampler instrument
• Returns the preset, a render, two keyboard renders and a similarity score
• Opens in Audial Synth, a free GPLv3 fork of Vital, on macOS
• Resynth panel is built into the plugin, so you never leave the DAW
• Jobs typically finish in 60 to 250 seconds

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.audialmusic.ai/api/functions/run/sound2vital" \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key" -H "X-User-ID: your_user_id" \
  -F "userId=your_user_id" \
  -F "original=@/path/to/clip.wav"

import audial

audial.config.set_api_key("your_api_key")
audial.config.set_user_id("your_user_id")

result = audial.sound2vital("clip.wav")
print(result["preset"])  # the .vital preset built from the clip

# In Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with audial-mcp installed:
"Resynthesize ~/Samples/bass_oneshot.wav into a synth preset and tell me the similarity score."

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