Future-Proof for Serum 2

Future-Proof focusses on organic timbres and textures derived from acoustic instruments and vocal sources, juxtaposed with futuristic sounds reflecting the environment we live in today and in the years to come. The spectral re-synthesis and granular engines are prominently used in this library, dozens of wavetables have been extracted from acoustic and electronic sources, some instruments were (multi)sampled exclusively for this new patch collection, others were borrowed from the vast pool of patchpool samples accumulated over the years.

The sampled sources include string instruments like santur, oud, lyre, a large monochord, a sound object best described as dual string drum (Ballastsaiten - invented by German artist and musician Paul Fuchs), various saxophones and brass instruments, voices, metallic and glass sound objects, percussion, mallets, electronic textures and more.

Each patch has up to eight Macros and the modulation wheel assigned, some presets also use aftertouch, giving the user deep control to shape the sounds and adapt them to a given musical context. All assets are stored in their dedicated folders in the Serum 2 library, the import-function introduced in Serum 2 simplifies the installation process.

You can view/download the PDF for this set including the license agreement, technical info and a detailed patch-list here.

Specs:

• 108 patches.
• 2.8 GB of samples/multi-samples (780 - wav/stereo/48 kHz/24-bit) and 49 wavetables.
• All patches have velocity, modulation wheel and up to 8 Macros assigned, some also use aftertouch.
• Easy installation via the import-function in Serum 2.
• Delivery: Download (2.6 GB).
• Price: € 43 EUR.

Patch categories:

• Bells - Mallets (11).
• Brass - Woodwind (8).
• Drone (10).
• Pad (8).
• Percussion (23).
• Seq - Rhythm (15).
• Soundscape - SFX (11).
• String (13).
• Vocal (9).

All demos below were produced entirely with Serum using only patches from Future-Proof, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the outputs and some volume automation, if several instances of Serum were used in a track.

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