Serum 2 - Overview and Thoughts

Tutorial | Mar 18, 2025

In this video, I provide an overview and my initial thoughts on the newly released Xfer Serum 2 synthesizer, highlighting its new features like the addition of a third oscillator with multiple modes, an updated GUI, and an expanded modulation system. While I appreciate the free update for existing owners of Dune 1 and the powerful sound design capabilities with features like the wavetable editor and a variety of filter options, I also express some concerns about its interface limitations such as the limited number of LFOs and the cumbersome modulation adjustments. Overall, Dune 2 is a solid and versatile synthesizer package, though not revolutionary, with its best-in-class wavetable editor and added functionalities making it a worthwhile investment.

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Summary #

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In the video, I discuss the recent release of Serum 2, a significant update to the popular wavetable synthesizer Serum. Serum 2 brings a multitude of new features and enhancements, making it a comprehensive tool for music producers. For existing owners of Serum 1, this update is completely free, although tips are encouraged to support the developers due to the substantial enhancements included.

First, I highlight that Serum 2 expands from two oscillators to three, each capable of functioning in various modes such as wavetable, multi-sample, sample, granular, and spectral. This flexibility was not present in the original version, which focused solely on wavetables. The updated wavetable editor is quite robust, allowing for detailed customization through drawing and importing waveforms and morphing between different positions.

The graphical user interface (GUI) in Serum 2 is refreshed, with a cleaner, more scalable design, allowing for a more pleasant user experience. Additionally, each oscillator mode offers unique capabilities; for example, the multi-sample oscillator acts as a sampler supporting SFZ files. There's also a new sample player, a granular engine, and a spectral engine that can accept inputs like audio samples and images, providing a broad range of creative sound design options. Furthermore, the spectral engine includes warp modes and the ability to manipulate harmonics and frequencies.

One of the standout features is the ability to utilize noise as a modulation source, useful for creating varied sound textures. The oscillators can also be routed through Serum's new filter system, which offers multiple configuration options, including typical routing and new intriguing filter modes like DJ mixer and PZ SVF, where users can draw their own filter curves.

In the modulation section, Serum 2 provides extensive capabilities with six LFOs and a similar number of envelopes, although I feel there's room for improvement. I believe it would be beneficial to have unlimited modulation sources, like in some DAWs, and a better way to manage them to make the process more intuitive and less cumbersome.

An exciting addition to Serum 2 is the inclusion of clips, allowing users to create music loops directly within the plugin. This feature brings Serum closer to functioning as a mini DAW, complete with note attributes and automation capabilities. The new arpeggiator feature stands out because it lets users define custom patterns, similar to Cthulhu, further enhancing its utility for creative sequencing and music composition.

In terms of mixing and effects, Serum 2 introduces splitters to manage different frequency bands independently, a feature reminiscent of Bitwig Studio. The FX section supports unlimited effects, letting users apply multiple instances of each effect along with new splitters. There's also voice control, allowing for creative panning and tuning options for individual notes, making for rich stereo fields and complex sound textures.

Overall, I express my enthusiasm for Serum 2, praising its extensive feature set and flexibility while acknowledging some areas for improvement. Serum 2 remains a powerful tool with its exceptional wavetable editor, sound design capabilities, and new features. Although it doesn't necessarily introduce groundbreaking changes, it's a solid, all-inclusive package offering great value for both new and existing users.

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[00:00:00] Hey, folks, welcome back.
[00:00:02] So yesterday is Serum 2 dropped out of nowhere.
[00:00:05] And I guess there are already gazillion videos on YouTube
[00:00:08] showing you how to make a PsyTran space with this.
[00:00:11] So in this video, I want to give you a quick rundown
[00:00:13] and maybe some thoughts about what I like
[00:00:16] and what I don't like about this.
[00:00:19] So first up, if you own Serum 1,
[00:00:21] this update is completely for free for you.
[00:00:24] You can leave a tip if you want to
[00:00:25] and I recommend to leave a tip
[00:00:28] because there are a lot of features,
[00:00:29] a lot of new things in there.
[00:00:31] And yeah, it's completely free actually,
[00:00:35] that's big plus point in my opinion
[00:00:38] because the update is not small.
[00:00:41] So Serum 2 is like initially a wavetable synthesizer
[00:00:46] but they also introduce now here,
[00:00:49] instead of two oscillators, we have now three oscillators
[00:00:52] and each of these oscillators can be in a different mode.
[00:00:56] We have wavetable, multi-sample, sample, granular, spectral.
[00:01:00] So different modes you can use
[00:01:01] which was not there before,
[00:01:05] before we had only wavetable, right?
[00:01:07] There's also here the wavetable editor
[00:01:09] where you can draw in your own harmonics
[00:01:12] or your own waveform in here.
[00:01:15] You can also import waveforms, right?
[00:01:17] And then you can morph between them here
[00:01:20] between a different wavetable position.
[00:01:23] So it's a nice wavetable editor
[00:01:25] and I use this here all the time.
[00:01:27] So in Serum 1, I probably use Serum 1
[00:01:30] only for the wavetable editor most of the times.
[00:01:33] But now here it's a fresh new update,
[00:01:38] the GUI looks a bit nicer in my opinion,
[00:01:41] a bit fresher and we can rescale the whole thing.
[00:01:45] So we have multiple oscillator types here.
[00:01:49] Multi-sample, let's init this here actually
[00:01:53] or let's put this here to init preset, let's stop.
[00:01:57] So wavetable oscillator is pretty clear, I think.
[00:02:01] Then we have a multi-sample oscillator type
[00:02:03] but just basically just a multi-sampler.
[00:02:06] It's not an oscillator, it's actually just a sampler
[00:02:08] and we can load here SVSFZ files
[00:02:12] and we can load up some presets
[00:02:16] and we can do our own presets, of course.
[00:02:18] So let's go here for keys, baby grand piano two, okay.
[00:02:22] So you can see here that all the cells,
[00:02:24] it's basically velocity and yeah,
[00:02:27] multiple samples for different keys
[00:02:29] and different velocity settings.
[00:02:32] Okay, so it's a sampler now inside of a synthesizer.
[00:02:41] So this makes Serum 2 automatically like
[00:02:44] some kind of flagship synthesizer
[00:02:47] or something, a nice foundation for your big library
[00:02:53] of samples that you want to build
[00:02:54] or maybe you want to sell a lot of presets to customers.
[00:02:59] So Serum 2 is a nice foundation for that, in my opinion.
[00:03:03] Then we have a normal sample player here.
[00:03:06] We can use bass sound.
[00:03:09] One shot, we have here crossfade,
[00:03:14] different playback directions.
[00:03:21] Oh, that's only the loop here.
[00:03:22] Yeah, that's the loop.
[00:03:26] Okay, then we have here granular, of course.
[00:03:33] That's something you don't want to miss.
[00:03:36] You can change the scan speed,
[00:03:40] density is here.
[00:03:44] We can edit here basically the playback window.
[00:03:50] If we put it here, then it's more like a taggy.
[00:03:54] Then we have spectral stuff here.
[00:04:03] So you can drag in samples and also images if you want to.
[00:04:08] And then you can apply filters here, custom filters.
[00:04:12] Hello.
[00:04:15] You can amplify certain sounds, certain.
[00:04:19] Or certain frequencies, certain harmonics.
[00:04:22] You can see also to change here in real time.
[00:04:33] You can change the cutoff frequency of this.
[00:04:36] So you can create your own spectral filters
[00:04:39] on top of a spectral playback engine.
[00:04:42] (soft music)
[00:04:44] Then some warp modes, some spectral ones.
[00:04:59] Smear is cool.
[00:05:02] Shift is cool.
[00:05:03] Comp filter on top, pitch shift.
[00:05:06] Formant for code, a lot of stuff in here.
[00:05:12] (soft music)
[00:05:14] There actually is something like spread, yeah.
[00:05:18] So you can spread the harmonics apart.
[00:05:24] It's also something that you can do in Zebra.
[00:05:28] So a lot of new engines that you can use
[00:05:33] for sound designing stuff, it's good to have.
[00:05:38] And it gives you a lot of options.
[00:05:40] So three new oscillators or three oscillators
[00:05:44] with new types of engines, sub oscillator here
[00:05:47] that you can use to add maybe a sub.
[00:05:50] You can also put this or bypass all the filters here
[00:05:56] if you want to.
[00:05:59] So you can send it doing direct out.
[00:06:01] Then we have here also a noise sampler
[00:06:05] with different presets.
[00:06:07] I think you can also just load samples in here,
[00:06:09] drag in some waveforms, a wave files.
[00:06:13] But you have already here a lot of different things
[00:06:16] you can use to play back.
[00:06:17] So stuff you can use to layer something on top of snares,
[00:06:30] kick drums or sounds to give it some texture
[00:06:35] using it as a modulation source
[00:06:37] to make some sound experiments,
[00:06:39] whatever you want to do with this.
[00:06:41] Then we have two filters here, nothing special.
[00:06:44] You can also select if you want to route
[00:06:48] all the oscillators through this filter or just one.
[00:06:52] We have also here these drop downs or pull downs
[00:06:54] or overlays or modals or however you want to call it.
[00:06:58] And you can say, I want to have this here
[00:07:00] go through filter A, filter B,
[00:07:06] right, filter one, filter two.
[00:07:08] So you can mix and match between that.
[00:07:10] That's also new.
[00:07:14] I think the filters here are pretty great.
[00:07:16] You have a lot of filters you can choose from.
[00:07:19] These are all the new filters from serum two.
[00:07:22] And I think the most interesting one
[00:07:24] is the DJ mixer here, which looks like this.
[00:07:27] So you have to pull this down.
[00:07:29] You have a high cut and you have a low cut.
[00:07:35] Can I actually hear this here maybe?
[00:07:38] Hello, let's go to the wave table.
[00:07:40] And you have to go to A.
[00:07:43] So nice to have.
[00:07:49] Then the other interesting one was the PZ SVF here
[00:07:53] where you can draw in your own filter curves.
[00:07:57] So you can hit this button here
[00:07:58] and then draw a filter curve in for snapshot four.
[00:08:04] Snapshot one is a different one, right?
[00:08:07] Snapshot two is maybe this filter.
[00:08:09] And here we push something like this.
[00:08:14] And then you have this small little icon here
[00:08:17] you can draw around.
[00:08:18] It's actually here.
[00:08:23] Something between it pushes the low end for some reason.
[00:08:30] But you can define your own filters
[00:08:33] and then morph between these filters.
[00:08:35] So pretty dope actually to have this PZ SVF.
[00:08:39] My opinion here, the most interesting one.
[00:08:42] Also some other ones you can use,
[00:08:44] but the rest is more or less the same as in Serum 1.
[00:08:49] Then we have down here all the modulations
[00:08:54] or the modulation sources envelopes and also LFOs.
[00:08:58] Each of these tabs you can switch to a different mode.
[00:09:02] So we have normal, which is in segment
[00:09:04] or multi-stage envelope generator here,
[00:09:06] but we can also use path.
[00:09:09] So we can draw in a path you want to use then.
[00:09:13] And we modulate here, let's say, wave table position
[00:09:18] or maybe not the wave table position.
[00:09:19] Maybe put the filter on this.
[00:09:22] Remove all modulators.
[00:09:28] And then put this to X coordinate.
[00:09:32] And the Y coordinate of different things.
[00:09:36] And then you can draw a shape.
[00:09:41] Something like this or like say chaos here,
[00:09:46] Lawrence attractor, which is at two planets
[00:09:49] and moving paths that are kind of in the gravity field
[00:09:53] of these two planets.
[00:10:00] If you kind of like this,
[00:10:01] you can also change the playback speed.
[00:10:03] Pretty interesting.
[00:10:10] My kind of criticism, but this is here,
[00:10:14] for me, it's not enough.
[00:10:15] You have only six LFOs and someone mentioned on Discord,
[00:10:19] you have to define LFO six here to something,
[00:10:23] let's say drive, and then you get three more LFOs.
[00:10:26] So seven, eight, nine and 10.
[00:10:28] My opinion, why not have unlimited modulation sources
[00:10:32] like in Bitwig?
[00:10:33] Sometimes I have grid patches with 20 or more
[00:10:36] random modulation sources just to make it more organic.
[00:10:42] So why limit this here in this kind of weird way?
[00:10:46] Just make it a drop down maybe and let me add more LFOs.
[00:10:50] Let me remove here, I have to move this, okay.
[00:10:58] So yeah, these are the modulators,
[00:11:01] would be nice to have more of them, more or less.
[00:11:06] Then there's something I don't like here
[00:11:08] is when you define, let's say you modulate something here,
[00:11:13] cut off, right?
[00:11:14] And then you switch away to LFO two,
[00:11:17] you can't see the modulation amount here anymore on cut off.
[00:11:20] You can still see that there is a modulation happening
[00:11:23] because there's a moving dot,
[00:11:26] but you can't change the modulation amount.
[00:11:28] You have to go to LFO one here or to XY.
[00:11:33] You have to click on this to see actually here this line
[00:11:36] and then to change the amount.
[00:11:38] You can of course go to matrix here,
[00:11:40] but it's a bit cumbersome tedious to find in here
[00:11:44] the right entry.
[00:11:45] In my opinion, would be nice to have your right click
[00:11:49] and let me choose which modulation
[00:11:53] or which modulation source destination amount
[00:11:57] I want to change directly on the knob itself
[00:12:00] instead of going to the matrix panel here
[00:12:03] or clicking around in the modulation sources
[00:12:06] to find the right modulator.
[00:12:07] This is much better inside of Bitwig studio.
[00:12:12] If you ask me, feels a bit outdated to be honest.
[00:12:17] But yeah, but you can, it's not like super bad
[00:12:22] or anything like this, just complaining on a high level.
[00:12:25] Also your envelopes are just triggered by the key input.
[00:12:31] And you can use this as a multi-stage envelope generator.
[00:12:34] I don't think here there's a different mode you can,
[00:12:38] like you can choose here from the LFOs.
[00:12:41] So these are the modulation sources.
[00:12:43] We have also macros here, of course,
[00:12:45] and velocity and key tracking here.
[00:12:49] If you want to use this, that's also possible.
[00:12:52] Then we have here now clips in there.
[00:12:53] So you can create, yeah, notes inside of Serum.
[00:12:58] So it's almost like a digital audio workstation.
[00:13:04] Can change the clip length, we can hit play.
[00:13:07] We can also add here automation to that.
[00:13:12] I think you can choose all kinds of different things here.
[00:13:17] There's even note attributes, something like a chance, right?
[00:13:22] So you can say the chance of this note being played
[00:13:25] is very low.
[00:13:26] So it plays sometimes, not all the time.
[00:13:32] Then you can use different clips in here.
[00:13:38] You can also hit record.
[00:13:45] Even with the metronome, you can right-click.
[00:13:47] You can say, we want to quantize this.
[00:13:50] We can choose down here something like key and mode minor.
[00:13:55] You can see the scale highlighted in the background.
[00:14:00] You can also select all the notes, right-click
[00:14:02] and say conform to scale, which is already the case.
[00:14:07] Form to scale.
[00:14:08] Then it switches to the next possible note in the scale.
[00:14:12] So you can make music basically with this synthesizer alone.
[00:14:16] You don't need to use a digital audio workstation.
[00:14:19] If they implement some kind of clip launcher here,
[00:14:23] which is already the case and maybe an arranger,
[00:14:27] then it's almost a full-blown digital audio workstation, right?
[00:14:32] We have lots of options here on the left side,
[00:14:35] overdub all the sweet stuff, right?
[00:14:39] So, it's a full-blown clip launcher, right?
[00:14:44] Then we have also here ARP,
[00:14:47] which gives you all the different arpeggio options here.
[00:14:54] Up, down, different versions of that.
[00:14:56] So you can hold multiple notes.
[00:14:58] Maybe use here the envelope for this.
[00:15:09] Switch on the ARP.
[00:15:10] Remove all destinations.
[00:15:18] Maybe use deeper one.
[00:15:26] So we have here on this ARP all kinds of different patterns,
[00:15:32] but we can also define our own pattern, right?
[00:15:35] So we can see down here, we have different patterns.
[00:15:37] We can change or use to play back chords.
[00:15:42] So in here, we have basically nothing,
[00:15:45] but you can hit this small little button here,
[00:15:47] and when we press multiple notes,
[00:15:50] you can see here that I'm selecting multiple notes,
[00:15:52] then you can define how they are played back.
[00:15:55] Something like this, maybe make this shorter.
[00:16:00] (upbeat music)
[00:16:03] So this is almost like Cthulhu,
[00:16:16] or it's exactly like Cthulhu inside of Serum,
[00:16:19] so you can define your own arp patterns
[00:16:21] instead of choosing something predefined here.
[00:16:24] It would be nice to have this actually also in Bitwig
[00:16:27] in the Arpeggiator that you can define your own patterns.
[00:16:30] But the pattern is not like it's predefined notes.
[00:16:35] It's selecting from the chords you are playing,
[00:16:40] the root note, and the second note,
[00:16:43] and the third note, and so on.
[00:16:45] So it's not like it's defining the notes.
[00:16:48] It defines what kind of notes you are selecting
[00:16:52] for playing back a pattern.
[00:16:56] Okay, so then there's a lot of different things here,
[00:16:58] of course, transposing up, down, play back,
[00:17:02] how you want to launch it, play back, speed, and so on.
[00:17:06] And then you can put this all in different
[00:17:08] clip loungers here also, so you can play different.
[00:17:14] (upbeat music)
[00:17:16] Maybe use something different here.
[00:17:20] (upbeat music)
[00:17:23] (upbeat music)
[00:17:25] So you can switch between different arp patterns
[00:17:34] on the fly, pretty dope.
[00:17:36] I think this is all you need to make good music.
[00:17:41] There are no excuses anymore, okay?
[00:17:44] So this is the arp.
[00:17:47] Then of course, down here, we can change a mode or scale.
[00:17:52] I think this is also here.
[00:17:54] I'm not sure if you can actually press.
[00:17:58] (upbeat music)
[00:18:00] Yeah, it's also using the note inputs
[00:18:05] where you can't press wrong notes
[00:18:07] or out of the scale notes.
[00:18:09] So I'm pressing here E, this note,
[00:18:12] but it's constrained to D sharp.
[00:18:16] (upbeat music)
[00:18:19] So there's a diatonic transposer also included in here
[00:18:22] where we can change the scale and the mode.
[00:18:24] Also pretty dope to have this in here.
[00:18:29] In my opinion, you don't need anything else.
[00:18:31] You just need Serum.
[00:18:32] You can do everything with Serum now, more or less.
[00:18:35] It's a flagship synthesizer digital audio box station.
[00:18:40] Like I said, if they add an arranger,
[00:18:41] then it's a full blown door, more or less.
[00:18:44] So these are the LFOs.
[00:18:46] This is the clip here, let's show you all of this.
[00:18:49] Then we have here, of course, a mix tab.
[00:18:52] So you can change the loudness,
[00:18:56] the volume of the individual oscillators here.
[00:19:00] Also the filter output, we have a bus one, bus two,
[00:19:03] so we can send certain things to the bus here
[00:19:06] and then put different effects on it if you want to.
[00:19:09] This is the direct out.
[00:19:11] Direct out is more or less when you want to send,
[00:19:15] for instance, the sub, right?
[00:19:17] You want to send directly out
[00:19:19] and you want to bypass all the audio effects here.
[00:19:23] Can be interesting if you have bass sounds, right?
[00:19:28] Oh, that's two.
[00:19:29] Let me go down here and octave.
[00:19:34] Oh, I actually have a clip in here, right?
[00:19:37] (upbeat music)
[00:19:43] So you have the bass or the sub on here, right?
[00:19:48] And all the rest.
[00:19:50] Oh, that's the main out, okay, I see.
[00:20:00] So you can route the sub out directly out
[00:20:08] and bypass all the effects on that.
[00:20:13] So FX, we can see we have a lot of different effects now here.
[00:20:17] We can also use unlimited effects
[00:20:21] and I can use certain things multiple times.
[00:20:24] Actually, let me reset this here in a preset.
[00:20:29] There it is, FX.
[00:20:30] Lot of interesting things.
[00:20:35] Most interesting is probably that we have now splitters here,
[00:20:38] low band, high band.
[00:20:40] So it's basically FX2 in Bitwig Studio or FX3.
[00:20:43] Can we add another splitter?
[00:20:50] Hello.
[00:20:51] Can only add one splitter?
[00:20:53] This is true.
[00:20:54] So here we have low band, mid band, high band
[00:21:00] and then you can put your different things
[00:21:03] into the low band and the mid band
[00:21:05] you add a delay or whatever.
[00:21:08] So splitters are also now possible in Serum.
[00:21:13] I think the interface gets in the way here and there,
[00:21:26] but it looks nice.
[00:21:30] It looks almost like kind of a dark version of Reason
[00:21:34] or something like any native instruments.
[00:21:39] What's the name?
[00:21:39] Guitar, it's not guitar hero.
[00:21:41] You know what I mean.
[00:21:44] So it looks a bit like this, a bit like Scoromorphic.
[00:21:49] It's not a flat interface.
[00:21:51] It looks nice.
[00:21:52] I think it looks nice.
[00:21:53] It's also dark, so why not?
[00:21:55] Let's go in it here back to that.
[00:21:58] So that's the FX part here.
[00:22:01] We can also use the FX part, of course,
[00:22:03] to then separate plug-in, a Serum 2 FX here,
[00:22:08] and then you can put it on your track, on your audio
[00:22:11] if you don't want to use the oscillator part.
[00:22:14] Another thing is that here in the global thing,
[00:22:18] we have now voice control.
[00:22:20] So when you play multiple keys or notes,
[00:22:24] you can see it switches here from voice to voice.
[00:22:26] So every time you play a note,
[00:22:27] you switch to a different point here.
[00:22:31] (funk music)
[00:22:34] And then you can pan it around
[00:22:35] if you press multiple keys.
[00:22:37] (funk music)
[00:22:39] Right, every sound or every voice is on a different pan
[00:22:43] or a different position in the stereo field.
[00:22:46] Sometimes interesting, you can also do this
[00:22:49] for the tuning and cutoff.
[00:22:51] I don't know what they mean with cutoff.
[00:22:53] Probably filter cutoff, probably filter one, I guess.
[00:22:59] Yeah, there are also presets for this, pretty nice.
[00:23:03] Quality, I have quality most of the times,
[00:23:05] or sometimes I switch it to good
[00:23:08] because some of the oscillator engines
[00:23:12] are very CPU intensive, something like Spectral here.
[00:23:17] Let's put in here, let's say a piano sound, right,
[00:23:23] and you pull down the scan knob here.
[00:23:27] (funk music)
[00:23:30] And then you bring up the unison.
[00:23:33] And then we play multiple notes
[00:23:37] and each note has seven voices, right?
[00:23:40] (funk music)
[00:23:42] Then you can see the DSP meter here going up,
[00:23:46] but also my CPU is at the moment in energy saving mode.
[00:23:50] But you can really bring your CPU down
[00:23:54] with this Spectral engineer.
[00:23:57] Maybe use your Spectral smear
[00:24:00] and maybe a custom filter.
[00:24:03] (funk music)
[00:24:05] And bring this, these partials down
[00:24:12] and only amplifier the top ones.
[00:24:17] (funk music)
[00:24:20] By the way, you can also drag images in here.
[00:24:26] You don't need to drag in waveforms
[00:24:28] or wave samples or just select here
[00:24:33] something from the presets.
[00:24:34] You can just drag in images for some reason.
[00:24:37] (funk music)
[00:24:41] Yeah, you can see it.
[00:24:42] CPU is...
[00:24:44] (funk music)
[00:24:47] And then we can pan this around here, right?
[00:24:55] Something like this.
[00:24:57] (funk music)
[00:24:59] Kind of FX, let's put here chorus on there
[00:25:05] or maybe hyper dimension first.
[00:25:08] Then convolve.
[00:25:13] That's also interesting here, the convolution device.
[00:25:18] Massive, long, let's use this one here.
[00:25:23] You can change the size on the fly.
[00:25:25] But also CPU intensive.
[00:25:31] (funk music)
[00:25:35] And then reverb, normal reverb, hall.
[00:25:41] And maybe a chorus after convolution.
[00:25:51] (funk music)
[00:25:54] (funk music)
[00:25:57] A bit quiet, huh?
[00:25:58] Maybe bring a sub here to that.
[00:26:02] (funk music)
[00:26:04] (funk music)
[00:26:07] Put the filter on the sub.
[00:26:12] (funk music)
[00:26:14] (funk music)
[00:26:17] Also interesting, you can use a second oscillator here.
[00:26:34] Bring the level down and then FM or PD does here would be.
[00:26:39] (funk music)
[00:26:43] (funk music)
[00:26:45] Maybe an octa fire.
[00:26:57] (funk music)
[00:27:00] (funk music)
[00:27:02] Adds us here the Lawrence attractor maybe a bit slower.
[00:27:17] And A goes to that.
[00:27:21] (funk music)
[00:27:24] By the way, if you want to change the modulation
[00:27:29] from bipolar to unipolar,
[00:27:31] I think you have to use shift, alt and click.
[00:27:34] It's free and intuitive.
[00:27:36] It would be nice to have this also on a right click
[00:27:38] or maybe show it, give you a hint
[00:27:40] that you can use this key combination.
[00:27:43] So shift, alt and click
[00:27:44] and you change it from unipolar to bipolar.
[00:27:48] (funk music)
[00:27:52] (funk music)
[00:27:54] And maybe use a compressor at the end.
[00:28:03] Compressor and then we'll depend.
[00:28:10] (funk music)
[00:28:12] (funk music)
[00:28:15] So we're using here Y, X for this
[00:28:36] and Y for this cutoff.
[00:28:38] Shift, alt, click.
[00:28:41] (funk music)
[00:28:44] And maybe put this to forward loop.
[00:28:56] So we stay in a certain range here.
[00:29:00] (funk music)
[00:29:04] And use LFO2 and use Rosla.
[00:29:10] For the scan speed.
[00:29:13] (funk music)
[00:29:15] You can see now when I want to change quickly
[00:29:34] the scan modulation amount here, it's not possible.
[00:29:38] I have to click through all the stuff here
[00:29:40] and all remember what I use to modulate this.
[00:29:44] So it's very annoying for me actually
[00:29:48] coming from Bitwig where you can change it on the fly.
[00:29:50] Right, so I want to change this, but I have to look here.
[00:29:56] Oh, I'm using LFO2.
[00:29:57] Oh, okay, I have to click here and then.
[00:29:59] Oh, is it Y?
[00:30:01] No, it's X.
[00:30:02] Okay.
[00:30:03] And then I can change it.
[00:30:04] (funk music)
[00:30:08] Okay, I have X, do we have here any Q?
[00:30:14] We have an equalizer, nice.
[00:30:18] We'll put this in front of the compressor
[00:30:21] and maybe pull down here.
[00:30:24] (funk music)
[00:30:26] (funk music)
[00:30:28] Oh yeah, let's modulate this here with this, maybe.
[00:30:50] (funk music)
[00:30:53] (funk music)
[00:30:56] (funk music)
[00:30:58] Let's reset this here for a moment in it.
[00:31:03] Well, let's try out here, maybe a preset, five alive.
[00:31:10] (funk music)
[00:31:13] Oh, okay, I see him.
[00:31:14] (funk music)
[00:31:18] (funk music)
[00:31:20] Do we have a nice noise here?
[00:31:26] Let me see, organics, paper bags, always nice.
[00:31:34] And we can pitch it down.
[00:31:35] (funk music)
[00:31:38] And we sent this through filter two, maybe.
[00:31:46] And here we use a high pass.
[00:31:48] Or maybe SVZ.
[00:31:56] Snapshot one, right click, high pass filter.
[00:32:03] Something like this, Snapshot two is also here, high pass.
[00:32:10] We amplify here something.
[00:32:14] (funk music)
[00:32:16] It's not that easy to control.
[00:32:21] I'm not sure why it tries to amplify here,
[00:32:33] sometimes to low and that much.
[00:32:34] Yeah, I don't know why, but it is like it is.
[00:32:42] (funk music)
[00:32:44] So yeah, let's try and use the LFO three, Rosla.
[00:32:57] Make it a bit slower.
[00:33:03] And then use X for X here, Y for Y.
[00:33:08] Let's see.
[00:33:11] (funk music)
[00:33:14] Shift Alt and click, does it work?
[00:33:37] No, I would like to modulate actually also on top.
[00:33:41] So Bipolar, but it's only using Unipolar.
[00:33:45] I don't know how to change this.
[00:33:46] Not possible.
[00:33:53] Anyway.
[00:33:55] (funk music)
[00:33:58] (funk music)
[00:34:00] Then also define a clip.
[00:34:23] (funk music)
[00:34:25] I'm gonna make this clip longer, 16 bars.
[00:34:38] That's not 16 bars here.
[00:34:45] Can we actually, oh, what's happening in the background?
[00:34:49] So we can select everything.
[00:34:53] Oh, it's not scrolling.
[00:34:55] Okay.
[00:34:56] Okay.
[00:35:02] (funk music)
[00:35:04] (funk music)
[00:35:07] (funk music)
[00:35:36] Wow, what a nice pad.
[00:35:38] Oh, we have to click here, okay.
[00:35:43] So yeah, it can do a lot of stupid things in this.
[00:35:49] I'll probably experiment with this bit more.
[00:35:50] Maybe I do some videos on it
[00:35:53] if I come up with something interesting.
[00:35:55] But I want to give you a quick overview
[00:35:57] and some of the neat features.
[00:36:01] By the way, this thing is always or still in there
[00:36:05] from Serum 1.
[00:36:06] So you can always drag out a wave form here
[00:36:08] to Bitwig Studio if it let me.
[00:36:13] It probably bounces in the background.
[00:36:16] So you can use this to drag out samples
[00:36:18] into your door from Serum.
[00:36:22] Yeah, it's probably crashed.
[00:36:27] But yeah, this is a small hidden feature here.
[00:36:31] It's also in Serum 1.
[00:36:33] Pretty dope if you do, let's say, FX sounds
[00:36:36] or a bass sounds here and there.
[00:36:38] And you just want to drag it out.
[00:36:42] Maybe use my bass sound.
[00:36:44] All right, then you drag it out, right?
[00:36:50] And then you have to see it as a wave form.
[00:36:53] So very nice if you want to make sample collections
[00:37:00] or just need some specific FX sound
[00:37:04] and you don't want to play this synth live all the time.
[00:37:08] Maybe I forgot something I want to mention.
[00:37:12] Yeah, if you have Serum 1, this is completely free.
[00:37:16] I think I mentioned this already in the beginning.
[00:37:19] Anyway, let me know what you think
[00:37:20] in the comments down below about Serum 1, Serum 2.
[00:37:24] And if you bought it and my opinion
[00:37:30] it's a great synth.
[00:37:31] It's not like a game changer
[00:37:34] that you can do now things you couldn't do before.
[00:37:36] But it's just a nice package of very good ideas.
[00:37:43] It's maybe loses a bit of focus
[00:37:50] in terms of having clips in here.
[00:37:52] But I still think it has the best wave table editor.
[00:37:59] And I use this all the time.
[00:38:01] And yeah, it's a great package.
[00:38:03] You can't do wrong.
[00:38:04] If you don't have any synthesizer and you want one
[00:38:07] this is a great synthesizer you can buy in my opinion.
[00:38:11] Anyway, thanks for watching.
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[00:38:15] See you next time and bye.