Nice build and interesting changes.Greg Houston wrote:Getting off on filter resonance in Serum.
23 instances of Xfer Serum and one instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter...
https://soundcloud.com/gregoryhouston/i ... at-expanse
Cool tune!
Official Serum thread!
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- KVRAF
- 16136 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
Cool tune!
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- KVRian
- 554 posts since 28 Jul, 2011 from USA
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- KVRian
- 1063 posts since 28 Dec, 2012 from Boston area
Really nice Greg, very cool.Greg Houston wrote:Getting off on filter resonance in Serum.
23 instances of Xfer Serum and one instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter...
https://soundcloud.com/gregoryhouston/i ... at-expanse
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- KVRAF
- 3329 posts since 18 May, 2003 from Sweden
Exciting, evolving, evocative.Greg Houston wrote:Getting off on filter resonance in Serum.
23 instances of Xfer Serum and one instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter...
https://soundcloud.com/gregoryhouston/i ... at-expanse
/Joachim
If it were easy, anybody could do it!
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- KVRian
- 554 posts since 28 Jul, 2011 from USA
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- KVRian
- 1142 posts since 31 Dec, 2006 from the hills above beautiful Boise, Idaho
Wow! How are you using 23 instances of Serum when 1 instance (depending on the patch) really eats alot of cpu even on my fast 5930k?????Greg Houston wrote:
23 instances of Xfer Serum and one instance of the FabFilter Pro-L limiter...
"It is better to compose than decompose."
www.SeanDockery.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k45d ... J5eCnhNbfA
www.SeanDockery.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k45d ... J5eCnhNbfA
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- KVRian
- 554 posts since 28 Jul, 2011 from USA
I have an older 2600k with 16GB RAM and am only using about 25% "CPU" with 23 instances of Serum (nothing frozen). My soundset demo had 108 instances of Serum in it. I didn't start freezing tracks in it until I was about 80 instances in. For me RAM is the bigger issue than CPU. If I weren't poor and could upgrade to 32 GB of RAM I could probably have 150-160 instances of Serum in a project without freezing no problem. As for CPU specifically, I don't make patches that put my CPU in the red and I don't tend to use a lot of chords. There isn't a single chord in the track I just posted for instance (at least that is played by a single instrument). I also use unison very sparingly. It is only used in 2 of the 23 instances here.quantum7 wrote:Wow! How are you using 23 instances of Serum when 1 instance (depending on the patch) really eats alot of cpu even on my fast 5930k?????
My advice for tracks that do have a high polyphony, unison and or release times would be to immediately freeze them after you've made them. Though freezing adds a layer of hassle it does make it possible to have unlimited instances of Serum (if your DAW doesn't have a track limit).
Also, make sure you are using the latest beta on the forums. There have been various performance improvements over the original release, and with more to come if I'm not mistaken.
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- KVRian
- 554 posts since 28 Jul, 2011 from USA
One more tip, if you are recording your parts from a controller rather than writing them by mouse and have a track that is so CPU heavy that you can't even record the part, make a draft track for the recording with lowered polyphony, lowered unison and/or lowered release time. The odd numbered unisons tend to sound very similar as well as the evens. So if you have 7 unison drop to 5, and if you have 8 unison drop to 6. Record on that draft track, then move the midi to the real track and immediately freeze it.
The 1x (Draft) oversampling is now working in Serum though if I understand correctly it is only going to give you a performance improvement when the patch has warp modulation, but don't hold me to that.
The 1x (Draft) oversampling is now working in Serum though if I understand correctly it is only going to give you a performance improvement when the patch has warp modulation, but don't hold me to that.
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- KVRAF
- 2393 posts since 29 Jun, 2005 from La La Land
I was going to call bullshit until I listened to your recording and figured what you did there. Sounds great. Extremely shrewd programming on your part! My hats off to you. I now officially feel like crap because I've become so spoiled with what I have, I forgot what it was to squeeze every single drop of performance out of the little bit of software that I could scrounge up. I'm inspired to actually rethink how I do things and go back to a time when I cherished every little thing that I had. Thanks.Greg Houston wrote:For me RAM is the bigger issue than CPU. If I weren't poor and could upgrade to 32 GB of RAM I could probably have 150-160 instances of Serum in a project without freezing no problem. As for CPU specifically, I don't make patches that put my CPU in the red and I don't tend to use a lot of chords. There isn't a single chord in the track I just posted for instance (at least that is played by a single instrument). I also use unison very sparingly. It is only used in 2 of the 23 instances here.
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- KVRian
- 554 posts since 28 Jul, 2011 from USA
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- KVRAF
- 3329 posts since 18 May, 2003 from Sweden
Greg (Houston) isn't exactly waving his Fabled Serum soundset in our faces…
I just bought it and, wow – what an adventure! For me, the drones and the vaguely ethnic sequences especially are a treasure trove of inspiration.
Emphatically recommended!
/Joachim
I just bought it and, wow – what an adventure! For me, the drones and the vaguely ethnic sequences especially are a treasure trove of inspiration.
Emphatically recommended!
/Joachim
If it were easy, anybody could do it!
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- KVRAF
- 1908 posts since 7 Jan, 2004 from Earth
Hi there,
Is there a way to modulate the Octave pitch without the octave steps? (linear modulation)
Cheers,
David
Is there a way to modulate the Octave pitch without the octave steps? (linear modulation)
Cheers,
David
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- KVRAF
- 37408 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Just bought this but the first patch crashes SerumSpitfire31 wrote:Greg (Houston) isn't exactly waving his Fabled Serum soundset in our faces…
I just bought it and, wow – what an adventure! For me, the drones and the vaguely ethnic sequences especially are a treasure trove of inspiration.
Emphatically recommended!
/Joachim
I assume this was made using the beta? Not a great idea, I prefer not to use betas unless I am beta testing.
btw the official update is still showing as 1.0.0 in my downloads - it would be good to have access to the updates in my account rather than having to scan this thread or the XFer forum for news about updates. This is why things like this crash happen.
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Sampleconstruct Sampleconstruct https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=191286 - KVRAF
- 16746 posts since 12 Oct, 2008 from Here and there
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- KVRAF
- 3329 posts since 18 May, 2003 from Sweden
Other sound banks also need a recent, or most recent, version of Serum. For instance, on his website for the Halcyon soundset, Ayin Zahev (Sami) states that it needs version 1.016.aMUSEd wrote:Just bought this but the first patch crashes SerumSpitfire31 wrote:Greg (Houston) isn't exactly waving his Fabled Serum soundset in our faces…
I just bought it and, wow – what an adventure! For me, the drones and the vaguely ethnic sequences especially are a treasure trove of inspiration.
Emphatically recommended!
/Joachim
I assume this was made using the beta? Not a great idea, I prefer not to use betas unless I am beta testing.
btw the official update is still showing as 1.0.0 in my downloads - it would be good to have access to the updates in my account rather than having to scan this thread or the XFer forum for news about updates. This is why things like this crash happen.
I agree that it would be a good idea for Greg to include info about the Serum version demand on his Fabled Serum soundset webpage. And I also agree that it would be more convenient to have the latest beta update in Xferrecords account!
/Joachim
If it were easy, anybody could do it!