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jozza · Post by **jozza** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 10:50 am

What sounds best i like sylenth1 a lot But i feel like i have to use serum bc its so popular

gentleclockdivider · Post by **gentleclockdivider** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 2:45 pm

Yeaah popularity , hold in there

kvotchin · Post by **kvotchin** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:15 pm

Out of those two, Serum.

ChanceB · Post by **ChanceB** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:46 pm

Both.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:57 pm

Serum is way more flexible. But you could also just get Sylenth and use Vital for wavetable work.

_leras · Post by **_leras** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:34 am

gentleclockdivider wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2024 2:45 pm Yeaah popularity , hold in there

Well at this stage Serum is one of the main sounds of electronic music... It's got quite a lot of functionality and a mostly good neutral sound so it's pretty flexible.

Has a lot of tutorials and presets. So it'd be a pretty good starter synth.

SiliconDeath · Post by **SiliconDeath** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 1:23 am

sylenth + some other wavetable synth. Serum is ok, but its effects and filters are nothing to write home about. Also there are wavetable synths that does the whole grid-locked step envelopes/lfos better than serum imo

sylenth i feel like, while there are synths that can do same thing as it, it's not quite as replacable as serum is, imo

EfreetiSultan · Post by **EfreetiSultan** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 1:53 am

Sylenth1 for juicy oscillators and thicc unison.
Serum for workhorse. But Vital has much cooler filters than serum. Also dual filters is a must. With a third in the fx. Sylenth1 and vital seems like a great combo for 99% of sounds

But Sylenth1 is a bit old. Spire is a great mix of both tbh.

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 2:02 am

Sylenth is great for it's age. But Serum is a lot more versatile.

PebbleInAStream · Post by **PebbleInAStream** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:16 am

Not a lot of details given by OP... Hate to be 'that guy'... Neither 'sounds' best, they each have their own sound, capabilities, and workflow. Try out their demos and see which one is better for you and what you want to do with it. And have fun of course

eLawnMust · Post by **eLawnMust** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 6:55 am

Never liked the sounds coming outta Serum nor Synthmaster either... Too overbounding up-front hard to fit in anywhere unless you are a single-finger dabbler... Sylenth is pretty cool I like the sound of v1 over any after that... I would ditch them both for LinPlug Spectral, now that's something... Piss on following 'the crowd'...

swilow11 · Post by **swilow11** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:19 pm

Both are great, but I got rid of Sylenth because it just seemed obsolete and limited when compared to stuff like Tal Mod or Hive2. Serum is perhaps long in the tooth and as mentioned, the filters aren't great- but it's awesome for making and editing wavetables to throw in synths like Current or Hive2. Plus Serum has just so many soundsets available and probably years worth of tutorials...

WAVEFRONT_INSURGENCY · Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:21 am

Serum for the fm

WAVEFRONT_INSURGENCY · Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:21 am

Also for the GUI

trymhc · Post by **trymhc** » Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:52 am

I love both, but serum has such a nice GUI. Though I feel like sylenth makes up for this through chord sounds. There are some edm tracks I've been listening to, that have incredible chord synthesizer sounds. I haven't read the rules thoroughly, so I'm not drop names even though I want to so bad.

Serum or sylenth