Why should I consider Serum?

[KickingPlastic]

Hi - been looking at Serum as an alternative pad synth to go with Diva and my hardware (A4, System 1, Reface DX). I was originally looking at a Blofeld as both have wavetable synthesis but at £110 Serum is cheaper. I like the integration of LFO tool into it too. I do different types of dance both solo and collaboratively so don't need teh latest vengeance / garrix / etc type sounds as such, just a good, solid, impressive synth. Is Serum it? Or Spire, though reviews favour Serum. I'm on Mac so no Sylenth.

I also have Reaktor 6, Rounds and Razor plus Ableton's suite synths (and Diva). I sold Massive to pay towards Serum so won't be looking at that.

[Hologram]

I was considering Serum and Massive and am curious, how much did you sell Massive for?

[KickingPlastic]

I was considering Serum and Massive and am curious, how much did you sell Massive for?

£50 - check KVR's sale forum for good deals.

[Mussar]

I love Serum, to be honest. Being able to draw in your own warp modes, LFO/MSEG shapes, and waveshaping profiles are amazing, it can very easily do a lot of the more simple things that can be done with FM/RM/AM (so I don't have to grab FM8 as often, for example), and the possibilities of importing your own wavetables are only as limited as your sample library. With enough work, you can even get certain vocals to become wavetables.

Go check out Virtual Riot's tutorial on Serum, he explains a ton of the features and just how much you can do with it.

[KickingPlastic]

That's helpful, thanks. Gonna hold on to see what NAMM has to show but will keep an eye on Serum and rinse out the demo. Cheers!

[Nogan]

Aside from the really high quality effects, filters, and wavetables it has to offer right off of the bat, for most people I think custom wavetables is what seals the deal.

You can do anything from importing files with wavetables, to using wav. files to create them, or even enter a wave function.

[KickingPlastic]

Thanks all - I've decided to hold on as I may go for some hardware following a rather tempting NAMM and every penny counts.

[vinceasot]

everyones talking about serum but you cant go wrong with the good old sylenth and massive, i think serum is too similar to massive anyways

[Mussar]

everyones talking about serum

Well, the thread title is "Why should I consider Serum?"

Did you really come into a thread about a plugin just so you could trash talk it? Come on, dude.

[Mat_Zo]

I wouldn't recommend it as a pad synth, but it's definitely extremely versatile. Absynth performs far better as a pad synth though

[Heatcliff]

I actually use it a lot for pads too since I love the hypersaw function lol
But all a matter of taste I guess!

Absynths spheres are great though.