Serum has overwhelmingly been the worlds most popular synth in electronic dance music in the last few years, we have some super popular and played videos that we’ve collected all into one place for you! If the video features a free download, we’ve placed just below the player for easy access. Enjoy!
Serum Highlights and Pro-Tips
A high level fly-by of the best highlights and pro tips for sound design in Serum. Learn how to import audio to make your own wavetables, how to draw and morph between frames in the visual editor, and how to apply warping to bend the wavetable readout. You’ll see the unison engine, some of the best filter types, the sub oscillator, modulation routings, and macros. Let’s dig in!
Serum Bass Sound Design for 3 Patches
This bass tutorial flexes some of the impressive sound design capabilities of Serum. Each patch is explored step by step, and includes a detailed walkthrough of drag and drop audio to wavetable conversion, creation of wavetables using the visual editor, and one of the synth’s preset wavetable oscillators.
Serum Bass Mayhem with Single Cycle Waveforms
For future bass music, it’s essential to work with evolving, modulated sounds and wavetable synthesis it a great way of doing that. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a complex, harmonically rich bass wavetable from single cycle waveforms.
Internal Resampling & Render
Render and Resample are complete game changers as far as sound design and construction of wavetables. They simplify and streamline the process of creating insane sounds, and what you’re going to be able to do with these is have a single oscillator – a single wavetable – that can now sound as complex and processed as the entire output of Serum.
Download Serum Internal Resampling & Render Files
KSHMR & Tiesto ‘Secrets’ Supersaw Synth Lead in Serum
The goal of this sound design tutorial was to flex the full power of XFer’s Serum synth to create a similar sound using only a single plugin instance and no additional audio effects.
How to Make an Arpeggiator LFO in Serum
Getting Serum’s advanced LFOs to work like an arpeggiator is a bit convoluted, because Serum – like Massive – doesn’t have a dedicated arp. But you don’t need one! In this tutorial, I’ll show you the essential steps to creating an arpeggiator inside of Serum using 2 LFOs’.
Chord Stab in Xfer Serum
In this Serum tutorial, Dan uses a custom wavetable he made by recording him blowing into a bottle to create a nice airy timbre. He then applies filtering to get a nice pluck sound with an envelope, and fills out the sound with the noise oscillator. Completing the sound are Serum’s effects: Dimension Expander, Chorus, some EQ notching, and a plate algorithm in the Reverb effect.
SOUND DESIGN SECRETS IN SERUM: Unleash Serum’s Power Features!
So much potential lurks under the hood of this incredible synth. Come discover some of our favorite features and how to get the most out of them. Sound Design Secrets in Serum will be co-presented by two of the sound designers behind our epic, upcoming Darkside Funk soundbank: Dan Dusko and Vespers. Between them they’ve got 3 decades of production experience and have created some of the world’s most cutting-edge Serum sounds.
