After 3 years in development, Xfer Records has at last released its eagerly awaited wavetable synthesiser SERUM, and, thanks to its truly high-quality sound, it quickly gained popularity among the vast majority of electronic musicians. Its visual and creative workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds easy and fun instead of tiresome. You can create / edit / import / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on playback in real-time.

The wavetable creation features in Serum are phenomenal. You are not limited to a factory wave set. You can draw your waveforms, or you can import any audio file. From there, you can edit the wavetable morphing in many different ways. So you create your own unique sound. You also have a large variety of ways to warp the wavetables, including even FM synthesis with the other oscillator, ring modulating them, or more standard warping features. Morph between various wavetables using standard linear interpolation (crossfading) or via harmonic/spectral morphing.

Serum Oscillators

Serum's ultra-clean oscillators guarantee playback of wavetables without any artifacts. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are astonishingly bad at suppressing artifacts. Artifacts mean that you are (perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted tones / frequencies.

The modulation system is handled by an intuitive drag-and-drop system, similar to that of Massive, but with a 32-slot mod matrix letting you see everything in one place, and advanced features. Want an LFO controlling a filter cutoff? Simply drag the LFO title to the cutoff knob.

Serum give you the ability to 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.

Serum Filter

This synthesiser includes all of the filter types found in LFOTool in addition to some brand-new ones. Phasers, Flangers, and Comb filters all of which can key-track to the musical note you play. 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. You’re able to place any filter across the whole synth’s output as the filter collection is mirrored in the effects rack for convenience.

Serum effects section

Serum has an effects section which includes 10 effects: Chorus, Delay, Hyper/Dimension, Compressor, Distortion, Flanger, Phaser, Reverb, EQ and Filter. Effects can be dragged and dropped in any order, though parallel processing is only available through the use of each module dry/wet control. These effects also can be used to process sound outside the synthesizer. For this there is a special version of Serum - SerumFX

This is a must-have instrument for the serious sound designer!

Serum presets

► System Requirements:

CPU with SSE2

Windows 7 SP1, or Mac OS X 10.6 or greater

VST2.4 , AU or AAX compatible host software

1.33b4 (March 12 2021)

fix: default noise file would not sound on init startup (new Serum instances) in some situations

fix: bipolar modulators on text controls could appear as clipped (red blip visible) when not out of range

fix: text font scaling on preferences

add: clicking on overlapping LFO points on the right edge will now select the left one.

Team r4e Note: (v1.33b4 x86 x64 Unlocked)

Mods:

This release uses its own file (user.r4e) to store

activation related data. That way, any previously stored

License data stays untouched and can be used in further

(if it works) or previous versions without problems.

Updates got disabled completely. Try it on your own by

selecting 'Menu' -> 'Check for Updates'.

Additional Info's:

The AAX plugins are unlocked too! To be able to use these,

you need a cracked AAX Host like Pro Tools HD 12.5 by AudioUTOPiA!

Install Notes:

1. Run the setup.

2. Choose the options you want to use & install.

3. Enjoy!

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