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SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu May 11, 2017 10:07 am

It has 'a sound', it isn't trying to emulate analogue or anything - it can sound warm (check these out viewtopic.php?t=424785 ) but its more likle NI Razor and a lot of the Waldorf wavetable synths, great bite, movement, evolving pads etc

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Thu May 11, 2017 12:39 pm

keel wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't like Serum?

Yes.

keel wrote:Nothing like Sylenth or Spire.

I don't like Sylenth much, so I count that as a good thing.

Serum and Arcsyn have been my two favorite softsynths for a while now.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Thu May 11, 2017 12:54 pm

Am I the only one who doesn't like Serum? Even I want to like it so, so much. To me the sound is just not right. Sounds kinda metallic or something

Well, I do like the sound of Serum. However, it's inherently digital and was not designed to emulate any analog gear or what not. I just don't expect it to do all the things it wasn't meant to do. There are other synths for that purpose - for instance if I want to sound vintage, I pick LuSH-101.

kurodo · Post by **kurodo** » Thu May 11, 2017 1:03 pm

Serum set new standards on so many levels.
A win win for all of us.

Aditya.inHim · Post by **Aditya.inHim** » Thu May 11, 2017 3:44 pm

keel wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't like Serum? Even I want to like it so, so much. To me the sound is just not right. Sounds kinda metallic or something. Something what is annoying me. Nothing like Sylenth or Spire. Cpu usage is insane. Gui and everything is small. I want to like Serum but I just can't. I think that Splice offer is truly awesome. I hope more developers would offer same method.

I love serum. I love sylenth1.
You can download my presets that trying to remake sylenth1 presets in serum.

Check the presets here. And it is free :
www.inhimproduction.com/free-preset.html

liv · Post by **liv** » Mon May 22, 2017 1:05 am

Theres a new Leap Into The Void Serum soundset in the pipeline, featuring hypnotic sequences and mind expansions. Please find the announcement thread here.

https://soundcloud.com/leap-into-the-vo ... -your-mind

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Mon May 22, 2017 7:59 am

Aditya.inHim wrote:I love serum. I love sylenth1.
You can download my presets that trying to remake sylenth1 presets in serum.

Check the presets here. And it is free :
http://www.inhimproduction.com/free-preset.html

What's the reason those presets don't work in the Serum demo? Is it too old (1.017, 2014)?

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Mon May 22, 2017 8:51 am

You might be using an outdated version of Serum, yes.

Aditya.inHim · Post by **Aditya.inHim** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:49 am

Chris-S wrote:
Aditya.inHim wrote:I love serum. I love sylenth1.
You can download my presets that trying to remake sylenth1 presets in serum.

Check the presets here. And it is free :
http://www.inhimproduction.com/free-preset.html
What's the reason those presets don't work in the Serum demo? Is it too old (1.017, 2014)?

This presets requires latest updated serum..

Vortifex · Post by **Vortifex** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:32 pm

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:57 pm

I have to agree. I've really tried to love Serum (I bought it out of curiosity, you might say), but to my ears, there's something too perfect about the sound character that doesn't light my fire.

I know that the dev was aiming for a super clean sound, free of aliasing and other artifacts. Perhaps the very lack of artifacts is what makes the sound appear 'cold' or 'too clean' to some users, myself included.

Perfection is seldom interesting. A few wrinkles, a birthmark or a traces of a small scar, to me, makes a womans face much more attractive than perfect symmetry and spotless skin.

And when that, perhaps unwanted, perfection is costing you most of your CPU, well - maybe my Serum would be better off with another boyfriend.

/Joachim

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:21 pm

This again.

It's SO FRICKING EASY to make Serum sound dirty. I have no idea what the "it's too clean" brigade is on about.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:23 pm

foosnark wrote:This again.

It's SO FRICKING EASY to make Serum sound dirty. I have no idea what the "it's too clean" brigade is on about.

I agree.

This sounds clean???

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... sive-serum

spunkmuffin · Post by **spunkmuffin** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:49 pm

Spitfire31 wrote:Perfection is seldom interesting. A few wrinkles, a birthmark or a traces of a small scar, to me, makes a womans face much more attractive than perfect symmetry and spotless skin.

/Joachim

Oh Joachim you're so superficial, imperfection runs much more than skin deep.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:54 pm

I bought Serum after two years of demoing and I'm very glad I deed. It indeed has that cutting, unnatural tone which may work wonders when contrasted by warmer, more alive sounding synths. I'm making psytrance where I often need various robotic textures and werid mechanical/metallic FX and Serum is perfect for that, it is also very good for psytrance basslines.

On the hand, tracks made entirely of Serum often sound not very pleasant, I've heard few of them.

Official Serum thread!