Aiyn Zahev Sounds: SERUM Classic Trance

[surreal]

Yes please, this for Spire will do very nicely Sami!!

[Aiynzahev]

That is a well throughout post. Thanks for taking the time and it has changed my mind. I was among the first with packs for serum and spire and it worked very well for me. Current deserves popularity too, it really does sound great.

Thank you all! It was a very fun process. People seem to really appreciate it so I'll keep it at. Maybe Spire next?

Minimal Audio’s Current would be another excellent choice if you want to stick with a wavetable synth. I’d love to see a Falcon expansion as well. It has a gorgeous granular engine for atmospheric pads.

Hive 2 and Icarus 3 also seem to be right up your alley in terms of style. Either one produces awesome sounds for progressive trance and melodic techno. They’re also very capable if you wanted to do something more cinematic.

You have great programming skills, so I don’t doubt that whatever you make next will be really cool. Cheers!

current is fantastic, but I'm not sure if enough people use it to be worth the time. Hive is something I'm going to do another bank for, for sure.

I completely understand your hesitation in creating patches for Current. It is still a fairly new synth. But I also think that can work in your favor. Current 2.0 is out now and only $99. From my interactions on various forums, it's been very well-received. Even some of my friends and colleagues are slowly switching over from Serum, although I don't see Serum being replaced for quite a while.

I'm not surprised in the amount of hype surrounding Current 2.0 because of the incredible combination of wavetable oscillators, a sampler engine and granular engine, a handy sub oscillator, wavetable wave and warp effects, an absolutely killer effects rack, powerful modulation system with morphing LFO, and on and on. It's a playground for sound.

It also takes some time to learn for those who are still new to computer-based recording. With that in mind, the comment I have read the most is "where can I find good presets?" This is where there's an opportunity to be one of the first and best dressed to the party. The presets out there now tend to lean towards bass music, with a few exceptions. Spektralisk's Ultronium: Audio Annihilation for Current is an awesome example of what Current is capable of:

The market isn't saturated with a bunch of packs that sound the same. I would say that's one of the drawbacks with making a pack for Spire, unless you intentionally design sounds that stand out from the crowd. I know it's difficult to make any money selling presets. But for the reasons I've mentioned, you have a synth that is on everybody's radar right now with hardly any 3rd party expansions available for those who are looking.

You have an entire catalog of expertly-designed patches for the dance and trance scene. You know what kind of sounds work. That's why I think you would excel with Current. It's only a matter of time before others start releasing their packs. I plan on being one of them, but I'm currently (pun intended) working on patches for the Waldorf Quantum and that's taking all of my free time.

Version 2.0 is very affordable and people are actively searching for presets as we transition into the holiday season, when a lot of people purchase things that they've been waiting to go on sale. A proper progressive trance or melodic techno expansion with sequences, pads & atmospheres, plucks and synth bass is really needed. Just food for thought and my two cents. Cheers!

[morphex]

That is a well throughout post. Thanks for taking the time and it has changed my mind. I was among the first with packs for serum and spire and it worked very well for me. Current deserves popularity too, it really does sound great.

Well that’s great, I appreciate you considering it from my perspective. I’m only trying to help. I brought up your catalog of presets because I purchased some when I first picked up Serum and Razor.

I also loaded up on Access Virus patches for something new to experiment with. So I’m speaking from experience as a long-time customer and admirer of your sound design skills.

At the time, with Serum in particular, there were plenty of packs with wubs for dubstep. But there weren’t many at all that catered to the progressive house and trance crowd.

Then I came across your website, and your patches helped me to make music in that genre right away, as I learned how to program the synths myself.

It was very helpful for me and I see a lot of people in the same situation now with Current. There’s a need to be filled by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Your style is versatile enough for various sub genres of techno and trance, and Current is brilliant for those exotic genres. Exploiting its sound engine and that wicked effects rack will be a blast for you! So, enjoy yourself during the process and I’ll pick up a copy on release day.