WHY SERUM?
The dream synthesizer did not seem to exist: a wavetable
synthesizer with a truly high-quality sound, visual and creative
workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds fun
instead of tedious, and the ability to “go deep” when desired - to
create / import / edit / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on
playback in real-time.
IMPORT YOUR OWN AUDIO / CREATE CUSTOM WAVETABLES WITH EASE
Serum
has a Wavetable editor built right in- you can create your own
wavetables in a variety of ways. Import audio directly from audio files -
Serum has a variety of methods and options for analyzing audio for
breaking it apart into individual waveforms. You can import single-cycle
wavetables of course, as well as many at once (with in-built sorting
options, or manual re-ordering). Morph between various wavetables using
standard linear interpolation (crossfading) or via harmonic/spectral
morphing. Draw directly on the waveform, with optional grid-size
snapping and a variety of shape tools. Generate or modify waveforms
using FFT (additive). Create or process waveforms using formula
functions. Processing menu options allow you to do the other tasks you
would want, such as apply fades, crossfades, normalize, export, and much
more.
ULTRA-CLEAN OSCILLATORS
Playback of
wavetables requires digital resampling to play different frequencies.
Without considerable care and a whole lot of number crunching, this
process will create audible artifacts. Artifacts mean that you are
(perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted tones /
frequencies. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are astonishingly bad
at suppressing artifacts - even on a high-quality setting some create
artifacts as high as -36 dB to -60 dB (level difference between
fundamental on artifacts) which is well audible, and furthermore often
dampening the highest wanted audible frequencies in the process, to try
and suppress this unwanted sound. In Serum, the native-mode (default)
playback of oscillators operates with an ultra high-precision
resampling, yielding an astonishingly inaudible signal-to-noise (for
instance, -150 dB on a sawtooth played at 1 Khz at 44100)! This requires
a lot of calculations, so Serum’s oscillator playback has been
aggressively optimized using SSE2 instructions to allow for this
high-quality playback without taxing your CPU any more than the typical
(decent quality) soft synth already does. Load up Serum and we think
you’ll be able to notice both what you hear (solid high frequencies,
extending flat all the way up to the limits of hearing) as well as what
you don’t hear (no unwanted mud or aliasing gibberish- just good, clean
sound).
MODULATION - WORK THE WAY YOU WANT TO
The
modulation system allows for drag and drop connections between mod
sources and destinations. Want an LFO controlling a filter cutoff?
Simply drag the LFO title to the cutoff knob. This LFO->Filter
connection will now appear in the Mod Matrix as well. In other words,
you have two views/approaches for creating and modifying your
modulations: sometimes a list is nice, other times you just want the job
done fast and easy.
REALTIME WAVETABLE MANIPULATION
In
addition to moving through the set of wavetables (up to 256 make up a
single oscillator), you can manipulate the waveform itself in a separate
realtime process referred to as Warp. This allows for
FM/AM/RM/Oscillator Sync and many other ways to modify the waveform,
including “Remap” modes - a graph editor for drawing your own custom
table manipulations.
FILTER TYPES
Serum
includes all of the filter types found in LFOTool in addition to some
brand-new ones. Flangers, Phasers, and Comb filters all of which can
key-track to the musical note you play. Dual filter types let you
control or morph between filter types. Get creative with atypical
processes for filters such as downsampling, or the unique filter types
found nowhere before, such as the dirty-sounding French LPF.
BUILT-IN SUITE OF EFFECTS
An
effects rack with 10 effects modules lets you get your sound all the
way to the finish line inside Serum. Effects can be re-ordered to any
configuration you want. Virtually all effect parameters are also
available as modulation destinations. This is especially useful on
monophonic synth sounds. For example, apply an LFO to control reverb
size or dry/wet, or velocity to control distortion amount. Many of these
effects and modes were built just for Serum, so there are many unique
effects to choose from, such as Hyper, which simulates (additional)
unison amounts, or a dual-waveshaper which allows for a distortion you
can morph between two separate wave shapes.
ADVANCED UNISON
Serum
will let you stack a single oscillator to use up to 16 voices. Each of
the wavetable oscillators have a number of unison advanced parameters.
Stack settings allow for note (e.g. octave) layering to get a fuller
sound for a single note-press. Set the unison voices to all have their
unique waveform at once with the Unison WT Pos setting, or have them all
skewed in a different way with the unison Warp control. A variety of
unison tuning modes per-oscillator let you get the stack sound blooming
or swarming like you want.
SPECS
Serum comes with over 450 presets, 144 wavetables.
Available as VST, AU, AAX both 32 and 64bit.
System Requirements:
CPU with SSE2 | Windows XP/Vista/7/8, or Mac OS X 10.6 or greater | VST2.4 , AU or AAX compatible host software.
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