Techno Rumble Bass in Serum 2
The Berlin rumble is a distorted sub soaked in reverb and ducked under the kick. Here's how I build it inside Serum 2, including the order of the FX chain.
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Serum 2 Unison Explained: Voices, Detune, Blend, Width, and the Panel Nobody Opens
Unison in Serum 2 sits on each oscillator: the UNISON field sets the voice count (1 to 16), with DETUNE and BLEND next to it. The deeper settings, width, stack, range and the detune modes, are behind the small gear…
How to Make Ambient Music with Serum 2
A whole ambient track from three Serum 2 patches: two drones, one texture, one big reverb. Plus the slow-LFO tricks that keep it moving on its own.
How to Make a Pluck in Serum 2 (The Envelope Trick That Does 90% of It)
A pluck is the easiest sound to build in Serum 2 and the hardest to build well. The easy part is the envelope. The hard part is making it sound like an instrument instead of a doorbell. This is the…
Psytrance Bass in Serum 2 (The Rolling Triplet)
The full patch behind the rolling psytrance bass: one saw wave, a fast envelope, a closed filter and three disciplined 16th notes after every kick.
How to Make a Lead in Serum 2 (Wide, Bright, and Not Harsh)
Leads are where Serum 2 shows off. Unison, warp modes, three oscillators, a mixer. It is also where people overdo it and end up with a sound that is wide, bright, and impossible to mix. Here is the lead patch…
How to Make UK Garage in Serum 2
The 2-step pocket, organ bass, warped vocal chops and swing — UK garage essentials built in Serum 2.
How to Make a Bass in Serum 2 (Step by Step, With Screenshots)
A synth bass is the first thing most people try to build in Serum 2, and the first thing they give up on. The patch ends up thin, or muddy, or it sounds fine on headphones and vanishes on a…
Serum 2 Macros: How to Assign, Name, and Actually Use Them
To assign a macro in Serum 2, drag the macro knob onto any parameter and release when the plus sign appears. The mod wheel works the same way: drag the wheel icon at the bottom left of the OSC page…
Best Free Serum 2 Cowbell Presets (And How to Use Them)
One good cowbell preset can push a sketch across the line into record territory. It’s a tiny sound carrying serious weight: the offbeat in tech house rides on it, latin-leaning grooves swing on it, and it tops off half the…
How to Make Drum and Bass in Serum 2
Reese first, sub separate, one-note basslines that move by filter — the DnB essentials in Serum 2 at 174 BPM.
Best Free Serum 2 Bell Presets (And How to Use Them)
A good bell preset often separates a sketch from a record. It’s the bell that makes a trap melody feel expensive, gives a house breakdown its emotion, and puts the finishing gloss on a pop hook. And unlike most patch…
How to Make Hyperpop in Serum 2
Supersaws an octave too high, clippers in the right order, big pitch bends and vocal-ish plucks — the hyperpop toolkit in Serum 2.
Best Free Serum 2 Chord Presets (And How to Use Them)
The gap between a sketch and a record is often one good chord preset. And chord patches are odd beasts: they need enough size to carry a drop, yet enough cleanliness that six simultaneous notes don’t collapse into noise. Here…
How to Make Synthwave in Serum 2
Plucky PWM bass, chorused pads, driving arps and the gated snare — the whole synthwave recipe inside Serum 2.
Best Free Serum 2 Pad Presets (And How to Use Them)
A strong pad preset is often what separates a demo from a finished record. Nobody consciously hears the pad until you mute it and the whole track falls apart. Yet the same layer, done badly, is the quickest route to…
Neuro Bass in Serum 2 Without Resampling Hell
FM, moving notches and stacked distortion get you 80% of a neuro bass inside one patch — then you print once, not five times.
Best Free Serum 2 Pluck Presets (And How to Use Them)
A good pluck preset is often the thing standing between a sketch and a record. Plucks get used more than any other patch type in dance music, and they're the easiest to mess up: stretch them too long and everything…
Trance Gates and Rhythmic Pads in Serum 2
Chop a pad into rhythm with a drawn LFO: step patterns, click-free edges, swing, and compressor-free pumping.
Best Free Serum 2 Lead Presets (And How to Use Them)
A strong lead preset is often what turns a sketch into a record. The lead is what people walk away humming. And in tracks that are otherwise solid, it’s also the element most likely to come out thin, harsh or…