Hey guys, I don’t usually do this as I’m typically pretty good with figuring out and reverse engineering sounds. I love experimentation and usually that’s good enough. But I have to say, this one particular type of bass sound has eluded me for over a decade.

This track right here was what got me into bass drop style DNB in like 2010. It’s one hard hitting drop, and both the Call and Response bass sounds are perfect. I’ve gotten a handle on the Response (a BP sweep with noise FMing or something similar, roughly) but for some reason the pluck-esque bass that “Calls” before it (the bar basically goes Call: rest-pluck x8 Response: sweep-sw-sweep… I’m sure reading this was comical for someone lol)

Does anyone have ANY idea what that first Call bass is doing? I mean I keep saying pluck but it’s not a PLUCK per se. It doesn’t have that aggressive slope pluck character to it. It’s more of an impact hit. I’ve tried every goddamn combination of envelopes and LFO on Level and Filter and vice goddamn versa. I’m finally calling in for support on this one lol

Anyone with any ideas please let me know. Let’s assume the note is going to be just like in the song, roughly eighth note length back to back notes at DnB tempo.

Thanks in advance guys! Curious to hear your responses even if we don’t quite nail it

Hey folks, I'm trying making this synth bass sound in Serum. I've been messing around with the ICanHasKick waveform and have got pretty close, but I think I'm missing something. There's a layered sub in there, but it's just the tone of the main bass I'm struggling with. Any help would be super appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGOg5gemkDw

I really love how Phase Plant do this. I often want to set a macro on something like a filter and have easy access to positive snd negative modulation values. Given stuff like the Bend +/- warp modes, it would be super handy to have a bipolar macro for this. I know you can set the macro at 50% but ctrl+click resets to 0 which is sort of annoying. Remapping can help achieve something close but come on Xfer, bipolar macros please!

Im trying to recreate the same bass teedee uses in his song i dont even love you. Im talking about the 2 sort of warble sounds that start at 14 seconds of the song. if any of you could help me out would be much appreciated.

I've tried so many forums, youtube, here, I even consulted AI which I HATE out of sheer desperation, nothing seems to work.
I cannot get right click > midi learn to work.
The few ways I've managed to get it to work, breaks things so that no matter which instrument channel is actually active, the keyboard plays the active instrument AND serum every time.
Every time I manage to fix the problem of serum ALWAYS responding to keyboard input, right click > Midi learn breaks again.
Here are my Midi settings at the moment, midi learn does not work this way until I set the input/output in serum settings to the same channel, but when I do this, we are back to serum playing all the time no matter what channel I'm in.

I was able to create a setup very close to what I wanted by tweaking a setting in serum, then from the top of FL > tools > last tweaked > Override Global Link, but this seems a bit more intensive than what I want, and I have a friend, who as far as I know I have the same settings as, who is not having this problem with their minilab 3. I had it working once, but then as far as I can tell I shut down the PC to go to sleep, and next day this problem arose, this despite the fact that working in IT I know it *shouldn't* work that way.

I am out of ideas and desperately need guidance from someone who knows what they are doing DX. Thank you.

Hello all, i know this seems a bit trivial but on my mac i have loaded serum 2 presets into the dedicated folder, which show when i go into the folder through the app, however they do not show in the vst itself. Has anybody had similar issues and is there a fix?

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to recreate a specific saw sound but can't quite nail it. I've also don't know the MIDI notes, and I'm missing the path to the right tone (filter, unison, effects, etc.).

Synth doesn't matter to me, but if anyone has a preset idea for Serum, that'd be ideal since it's what I use most.

If anyone's up for listening and giving some tips on oscillator settings, filter cutoff, or unison/detune, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

the link for the audio file is here:

https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/e94da2df-37b3-4391-90ce-e32f159254a4

You can see the wavetable editor is randomising, but never too extreme. When I hit "Randomise lower 16 bins", my wavetables always come out really sharp and the peaks are really deep, whereas his are all quite minimal and it looks like he's doing this somehow with a keyboard maybe? Does anybody know how?

made some serum 2 skins. have these up for sale just message me if interested.

Dark Mode / Royal Blood / Ice

I typed "Synth" in the top left but the presets list wont change or sort. I dont know how to fix this or what causes it. Before i rebooted my Windows OS it was working perfectly fine but now it seems to be just a useless text box. Can anyone help?

Does anyone know a good crack for omnisphere and serum please

Hey all, been struggling with this for a min (maybe I’m too lazy to actually learn). But I’ve recently started getting into sound design with serum 2 and making my
Own stuff instead of loops and samples. I wanna make Reece basses as my main bass but I want it to have movement not a lot where it’s crazy but to where it gives you that head bump. Enough for some rhythm and movement like the bass is slowly moving and pulsating. Anyone have any tips : videos I can watch on learning that? I’m guessing it has to do with the LFO (noob alert I’m sorry).

Hey guys

I want your help to figure out how does MrBeast does this type of styling in subtitles ?

Have you guys noticed I tried getting reference for this replicating this style but I couldn't get any close to this

If anyone knows how to pull this off

It would be a HUGE HUGE help for me

Thank you

I've learned so much from this sub reddit wanted to try and give back by showing a patch I made that I think is pretty neat. Works well in contrast with at really big sustain bass IMO.

Using a macro on the rate with hz allows for some pretty neat automations and variations in the track. Hope someone finds this useful or sparks an idea for them!

Post processing is just a few layers of EQ and the slightest dab of good old sausage fattener.

I'll do a shameless plug of the track in the comments incase anyone wants to hear as well.

Newish to sound design

Hey! I noticed there's basically like 20 skins out there in total for Serum 2, and they're ALL just recolors that aren't really to my tastes...

So... I am offering 40 bucks to whoever wants to and can create a Serum 2 version of the Porter Robinson Worlds skin that was made for Serum 1 a long, long time ago!

If you can do this and are interested, I will pay upon completion of the project (with proof), and prior to being sent the file. It would be really cool if you would also make this available for other people (with a price, ofc)!

If nobody here wants to or knows how to, it'd be extremely appreciated if you could point me in the direction of someone who can! Thanks!

I’m curious on how this affects sounds and what sounds it’s good for when creating ?

Salut tout le monde, j’ai un petit problème, et vous avez probablement rencontré le même souci. Alors voilà le truc : j’utilise une version crack de xFer Serum depuis un an et il m’a juste demandé à l'instant un numéro de série. Je n’arrive pas à obtenir une clé d'activation ni à redémarrer le plugin sans la clé. pouvez-vous m’aider ? Avez-vous une clé, s’il vous plaît ? Merci à tous ceux qui pourront m’aider. Bonne journée les zicos

I want to remake heads will roll song piano style synth.i have no much knowledge in sound design can anyone help me to remake this sound with serum or any other synthesizer

fun experiements with lfos re-triggering other lfos, no midi/automation outside of serum

patch - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Igjwm7G1Xu9fNIrOu6rm__5XzfQKyp4K/view?usp=sharing