Xfer Records Serum v1.0.9.2 x64 x86 Incl.SerumFX
WHY SERUM?
The dream synthesizer did not seem to exist: a wavetable
synthesizer with a truly high-quality sound, visual and creative
workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds fun
instead of tedious, and the ability to "go deep” when desired - to
create / import / edit / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on
playback in real-time.
IMPORT YOUR OWN AUDIO / CREATE CUSTOM WAVETABLES WITH EASE
Serum has a Wavetable editor built right in- you can create your
own wavetables in a variety of ways. Import audio directly from audio
files - Serum has a variety of methods and options for analyzing audio
for breaking it apart into individual waveforms. You can import
single-cycle wavetables of course, as well as many at once (with
in-built sorting options, or manual re-ordering). Morph between various
wavetables using standard linear interpolation (crossfading) or via
harmonic/spectral morphing. Draw directly on the waveform, with optional
grid-size snapping and a variety of shape tools. Generate or modify
waveforms using FFT (additive). Create or process waveforms using
formula functions. Processing menu options allow you to do the other
tasks you would want, such as apply fades, crossfades, normalize,
export, and much more.
ULTRA-CLEAN OSCILLATORS
Playback of wavetables requires digital resampling to play
different frequencies. Without considerable care and a whole lot of
number crunching, this process will create audible artifacts. Artifacts
mean that you are (perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted
tones / frequencies. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are
astonishingly bad at suppressing artifacts - even on a high-quality
setting some create artifacts as high as -36 dB to -60 dB (level
difference between fundamental on artifacts) which is well audible, and
furthermore often dampening the highest wanted audible frequencies in
the process, to try and suppress this unwanted sound. In Serum, the
native-mode (default) playback of oscillators operates with an ultra
high-precision resampling, yielding an astonishingly inaudible
signal-to-noise (for instance, -150 dB on a sawtooth played at 1 Khz at
44100)! This requires a lot of calculations, so Serum’s oscillator
playback has been aggressively optimized using SSE2 instructions to
allow for this high-quality playback without taxing your CPU any more
than the typical (decent quality) soft synth already does. Load up Serum
and we think you’ll be able to notice both what you hear (solid high
frequencies, extending flat all the way up to the limits of hearing) as
well as what you don’t hear (no unwanted mud or aliasing gibberish- just
good, clean sound).
MODULATION - WORK THE WAY YOU WANT TO
The modulation system allows for drag and drop connections between
mod sources and destinations. Want an LFO controlling a filter cutoff?
Simply drag the LFO title to the cutoff knob. This LFO->Filter
connection will now appear in the Mod Matrix as well. In other words,
you have two views/approaches for creating and modifying your
modulations: sometimes a list is nice, other times you just want the job
done fast and easy.
REALTIME WAVETABLE MANIPULATION
In addition to moving through the set of wavetables (up to 256 make
up a single oscillator), you can manipulate the waveform itself in a
separate realtime process referred to as Warp. This allows for
FM/AM/RM/Oscillator Sync and many other ways to modify the waveform,
including "Remap” modes - a graph editor for drawing your own custom
table manipulations.
FILTER TYPES
Serum includes all of the filter types found in LFOTool in addition
to some brand-new ones. Flangers, Phasers, and Comb filters all of
which can key-track to the musical note you play. Dual filter types let
you control or morph between filter types. Get creative with atypical
processes for filters such as downsampling, or the unique filter types
found nowhere before, such as the dirty-sounding French LPF.
BUILT-IN SUITE OF EFFECTS
An effects rack with 10 effects modules lets you get your sound all
the way to the finish line inside Serum. Effects can be re-ordered to
any configuration you want. Virtually all effect parameters are also
available as modulation destinations. This is especially useful on
monophonic synth sounds. For example, apply an LFO to control reverb
size or dry/wet, or velocity to control distortion amount. Many of these
effects and modes were built just for Serum, so there are many unique
effects to choose from, such as Hyper, which simulates (additional)
unison amounts, or a dual-waveshaper which allows for a distortion you
can morph between two separate wave shapes.
ADVANCED UNISON
Serum will let you stack a single oscillator to use up to 16
voices. Each of the wavetable oscillators have a number of unison
advanced parameters. Stack settings allow for note (e.g. octave)
layering to get a fuller sound for a single note-press. Set the unison
voices to all have their unique waveform at once with the Unison WT Pos
setting, or have them all skewed in a different way with the unison Warp
control. A variety of unison tuning modes per-oscillator let you get
the stack sound blooming or swarming like you want.
SPECS
Serum comes with over 450 presets, 144 wavetables.
Available as VST, AU, AAX both 32 and 64bit.
