Then you can edit it or create similar ones. This allows you to analyze any waveform that you import into Serum and see which sinewaves create its sound. Serum’s Wavetable Edit view allows you to transform any waveform into sinewaves using the “Wave to FFT” button on the left. The basic theory of additive synthesis is that every waveform can be constructed from multiple sinewaves. If you need a bit of grit you can always add a few harmonics in other bins.Īdditive synthesis may be tricky at first, but it’s a great way of learning how sounds are constructed. To make sure you have a clean sinewave you can always draw it in the table edit menu - simply add the fundamental frequency in Bin 1.
There’s quite a big difference in distortions and harmonics between the “Analog_BD_Sin” which is meant to be imperfect and the sinewave from “Basic Shapes”, which has no harmonic content. If you’re trying to create a clean sound out of sinewaves, make sure you’re using a pure sinewave in your oscillators. A sinewave a few octaves higher should be a great source to create this effect. They could be used to add that “noisy” factor to a sound, for example to a marimba. Unlike most FM synths, if you do that, Serum produces distortions. Another technique is modulating an oscillator with another oscillator and assigning an envelope to the FM Amount knob. If you need a bit more grit in your sound, you can modulate an oscillator with the Noise oscillator. Try it if your synth needs extra sparkle or interest. It’s very nice for adding a high pitched frequency to a sound with low Drive settings. It’s a mode in the Distortion effect and sounds similar to a bit reduction effect. If you want to make your sound extra bright, Serum has a very nice alternative to a bitcrusher called Downsampling. Different cutoff and resonance values will create a different sound, so you’ll need to find a sweet spot. Especially on pluck sounds which need to sound realistic, this is great way of adding depth. Comb filtering is created when mic’ing sounds with multiple microphones. If your synth needs extra “acoustic” factor, try using the “Combs” filter on it. If you add it just slightly, the pitch drift can make Serum patches sound very nice. Another technique to add analog flavour to a sound Ois to use an LFO and assign it to the fine tune of oscillators. By doing this you can create sounds that sound half digital and half analog. The waveforms should look imperfect in the oscillator display. To do that you can record the waveforms in another synth and drop the audio onto Serum’s oscillator. One technique is to import wavetables from analog synthesizers. Serum has a very “digital” sound, but there’s a few things you can do to make it sound warmer and more “analog”. It should give you a different effect and sometimes the best results can be achieved using both techniques at once. You can do the same thing with the Noise oscillator - assign a very short envelope to the noise level. Once that’s done try to find a sweet spot of envelope amount and decay time. You may need to change the assignment from bipolar to unipolar by pressing shift+alt and clicking on the Coarse Pitch area. If your synth needs some extra attack, try making a very short envelope and assigning it to the Coarse Pitch of your oscillators. With it you can double or even triple the sound over different octaves using just one oscillator and have the other oscillators free to make the sound even fuller.
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This option is awesome for creating full sounding supersaws.
Here you can add higher or lower octaves or even fifths. The option is hidden in the “Global” tab and is called Stack. Doing this along with the “Unison stack” option in the Global tab can give you really fat supersaws.ĭid you know that you can use more than one pitch inside one oscillator? This works only if you use multiple unison voices. If you increase the unison and detune now, the sound all of the sudden becomes huge.
Now the oscillator sounds like a supersaw even if you’re using just one voice. Now you can use an LFO to move between frames of the wavetable. To make your Serum supersaws even fuller, try recording a supersaw (if you can, try an analog sounding synth) and importing it into Serum’s oscillator.
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