ADSR Sounds 10 Pro Tips for Serum TUTORiAL
10 Pro Tips for Serum
Despite launching a few years back, the flexibility and power of Serum has allowed sound designers of all backgrounds to continually discover new tricks the longer they spend using it.
In this 10-part course, Dan Larsson gives you some tasty insights into what he’s learned and how he uses this mega synth after racking up literally thousands of production hours using Serum.
Watch and learn from a professional and prolific sound designer with tips and tricks that will help you get past creative blocks and explore and invent your own sound.
COURSE OVERVIEW 1-10
00 Intro
An introduction to the course curriculum.
01 Lock Modules
You can make Serum to semi-randomize your preset with this neat little trick.
02 Pitch Tracking
This is a very useful thing if you want to make percussion sounds for example.
03 MB Comp Bands
Beef up the low-end using the MultiBand compression device by adjusting the level of the low band.
04 Note Modifier
Create crazy modulations with the Note Modifier. I bet you never used it before!
05 Formula Parser
Clever tricks for a cleaner sound
06 Partial Squarify
Are you a huge fan of the squarify formula in Serum? You need to see this if you want improve on it!
07 Harmonic Bins
Serum’s main strength is in the WaveTable Editor. If you convert your cycle harmonic bins, you can create crazy things!
08 LFO Shape to Oscillator
Another cool way to create your own waveform or wavetable is to use one of the LFOs in Serum!
09 Noise Oscillator
If you load a looping sound into the noise oscillator very new possibilities will open in front of you!
10 Curves
Combine multiple modulations into one macro. Save LFOs, and go crazy with modulations using this awesome technique!