Draw an envelope for ENV similar to figure 3. In OSC A, right click the WT POS knob and for Mod Source, select ENV 1. Tutorial settings with Filter and LFO automation.ĭraw and envelope like in figure 2 for ENV 1. The Xfer developers actually did a pretty good job of illustrating this in Serum. Now imagine cycling over those, which gives you a “moving” sound. The 8 waves in between them slowly morph from a sine wave to a square wave.

Your first wave is a sine wave and the last wave is a triangle wave. Think of a wavetable as multiple waves, lined up in a row, and you morph between them (or iterate through them one at a time.)įor example, say you have 10 waves.

These are what the 2 cool looking graphs are all about. The Serum VST has two wavetable oscillators. Yes, it comes with patches/presets, but largely you design new ones or tweak existing presets. The Serum VST on the other hand is for sound generation and sound design. Some even say it’s easier to use, although it borrowed some ideas from Massive and they can both be equally intimidating to new comers. A slicker interface and more wave shapes. (Although it can be quite useful for vocal chops.)Īs far as Massive vs Serum, they are both excellent choices and very similar, but Serum is currently a bit more up to date. While useful for all styles and particularly good for film scoring, it’s probably not anyone’s first choice for EDM. But you can also import your own samples and audio files to be manipulated and played back. And there are a lot of 3rd party add-on libraries. In a way, you can think of it as coming with lots of presets as well. (Think of it as going to the music store and buying a traditional keyboard loaded with tons of presets.) It’s not great for sound design, but has many decent presets, and a large library of add-on libraries that you can buy. What that means is that it plays back “patches”.

REFX Nexus is an absolutely fabulous ROMpler. There’s also questions like “Serum vs Nexus” and “Serum vs Kontakt” which is like comparing apples to oranges, and here’s why. Note: If you can afford it, you are much better off buying Massive as part of Komplete 12. If you rent-to-own Serum from Splice for $9.99/month and hang on to your subscription, we’ll get a few bucks to help keep the site running. Before we delve into the Serum tutorial, there’s a question posed in many forums asking “serum vs massive”? Honestly, if you are planning on being a professional EDM producer then you should have both (as well as Sylenth1 and Nexus 3!) But if you can only afford one and you forced me to pick … I’d probably choose the Serum VST.

Logic x pro with serum