Thank you, Joachim - coming back from the gym reading your nice feedback makes the rest of my morning for sureSpitfire31 wrote:With this soundset (and I've only had time to sample a smattering of the patches), Simon puts to rest the whole discussion about Serum as "cold" and "harsh" and "sterile".
These are wonderful sounds, in widely different styles – playable, detailed, different and exciting.
I did buy Codex, in fact, enticed by that same discussion. Now I find many Codex sounds veiled, muffled and often sounding a bit like an accordion. No doubt it can sound good, but that seems to be the main route of the sound designers involved with it, just as Serum gained its initial (unfair, I think) reputation through the plethora of ear piercing EDM patches in the factory banks.
Magnificent work, Simon! Are you going to try something similar with Codex?
/Joachim
To be honest: I never checked a single Serum factory preset (like I never listen to other factory presets of synths I buy because I want to explore an instrument without being influenced by anything), so I never got confronted with all the ear piercing, brittling noises people have been talking about. That's why I was always more ironic when contributing to the warm/cold-discussion, because if I want something to sound warm, I just program it (on any synth or sample player or my espresso machine or whatever).
I won't try Codex, I think for wavetable synthesis Serum is it, I've found an instrument I love and Serum has become a new developing platform for me now, next to all the other VIs and FX plugins I create sounds for. Reading that Codex only support 6 slots in the Modmatrix seemed so ridiculous, I would never even try it.
