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While on the topic of performance and simultaneously promoting my new soundset, the following demo has 108 instances of Serum in a single project along with a single instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter.

Soundset details

https://soundcloud.com/fabled-audio/fab ... ndset-demo

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I have a question for the experienced folks please-
I have an ascending sawtooth LFO driving the wavetable position. It creates a short phrase of spoken works that I imported. If I change the LFO shape to decending sawtooth, it will play the phrase backwards (not exactly true, but it sounds passable). Is there a way to morph between these LFO shapes using, say, the Modwheel?
Man, the more I learn, the more excited I get...
In rotation here: Helios- Eingya

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You could assign a second LFO to wt position and assign the wheel to both, one set to inverted in the matrix, so with the wheel down LFO 1 is active, wheel up introduces LFO 2, middle position freezes wt position in the middle of the Wavetable.

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Sampleconstruct wrote:You could assign a second LFO to wt position and assign the wheel to both, one set to inverted in the matrix, so with the wheel down LFO 1 is active, wheel up introduces LFO 2, middle position freezes wt position in the middle of the Wavetable.
That is a very good idea. I was headed the wrong way thinking I would assign the wavetable in inverted order to OSC B and morph between A and B. That would have been much less efficient, and would sound different too.
Thank you sir. :tu:
In rotation here: Helios- Eingya

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Bunches of new sounds since I last posted. Take a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/aiyn-zahev/sets/xfer-serum-bank
Aiynzahev-sounds
Sound Designer - Soundsets for Pigments, Repro, Diva, Virus TI, Nord Lead 4, Serum, DUNE2, Spire, and others

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Greg Houston wrote:While on the topic of performance and simultaneously promoting my new soundset, the following demo has 108 instances of Serum in a single project along with a single instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter.

Soundset details

https://soundcloud.com/fabled-audio/fab ... ndset-demo
Cool track!
What are the specs on the rig it was made on?
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highkoo wrote:Cool track!
What are the specs on the rig it was made on?
Thanks! My system is actually somewhat dated:

Intel i7-2600K 3.4G Quad-Core
16GB DDR3 1866 RAM
Focusrite Saffire 6

The biggest wall I was running into with this ridiculous amount of tracks was RAM. 32GB would have been optimal. Though with new motherboards being able to handle 128GB, the next time I upgrade everything I'll probably bite the bullet and go for 64GB if funds allow. I have other VIs I like to use that eat up many times more RAM than Serum.

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My poor old Intel i5 with 8GB ram just won't cut it. One Serum pad patch pretty near maxes out my CPU in Cubase 7.5. I'l skip purchase for now.

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Greg Houston wrote:
Thanks! My system is actually somewhat dated:

Intel i7-2600K 3.4G Quad-Core
16GB DDR3 1866 RAM
Focusrite Saffire 6
What DAW are you using?

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JC_ wrote:What DAW are you using?
Cubase 7.5

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Greg Houston wrote:
JC_ wrote:What DAW are you using?
Cubase 7.5
Nice. Are high unison pads hard on your cpu? I have a similar build using Cubase 7 and pads with decent release times are killing me unless I just hold out notes.

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Aiynzahev wrote:Bunches of new sounds since I last posted. Take a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/aiyn-zahev/sets/xfer-serum-bank
Top quality, as usual. :tu:
You need to limit that rez, bro.

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JC_ wrote:Nice. Are high unison pads hard on your cpu?
Yes. I use them sparingly, and not with long release times.

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I recommend using the FREEZE function if your DAW offers that.

Cubase, and most DAWs offer the ability to record (freeze) the performance from your VST instrument.

This means that high CPU loads from a live synth (serum, for example) can be dramatically reduced.

The result is, gaining the ability to record many tracks of high CPU instruments with little quality lost.

Check out your DAWs documentation for the details.

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Greg Houston wrote:
JC_ wrote:Nice. Are high unison pads hard on your cpu?
Yes. I use them sparingly, and not with long release times.
Thanks for the info and grats on the soundset release!

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