Risers, Impacts and Downlifters in Serum 2
Risers, sub drops, impacts and downlifters from one synth. Build an FX preset folder once and stop scrolling sample packs mid-session.
Producer guides & studio notes
Sound design breakdowns, production techniques and honest studio advice from the team behind 97+ packs — written for producers who finish tracks.
How to Make Peak Time Techno in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Peak Time Techno is what 1am sounds like: a relentless kick, a bass welded to the offbeat, a lead that arrives like a light switch getting flipped. This music exists for big rooms and loud PAs, which keeps the palette…
Wobble Bass in Serum 2: LFO Basics That Still Slap
LFO on filter cutoff built a whole genre. The rates, shapes and retrigger settings that turn a beginner wobble into a usable one.
How to Make Hard Techno in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
The sound palette makes or breaks Hard Techno. Pure industrial aggression: distorted basses parked right beside the kick, leads that scream like sirens, rave stabs. Loud everywhere, distortion everywhere, and the entire low end reserved for the kick. Designing Serum…
How to Make an Acid Bass (303 Style) in Serum 2
One oscillator and a screaming filter. How to build a 303-style acid bass in Serum 2, including the slides and accents everyone forgets.
How to Make Melodic Techno in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Melodic Techno rises or falls on its sound palette — dark emotional power: cinematic pads, arpeggiated basslines, leads slicing through fog. Take techno’s tempo and drum weight, then bolt on harmony borrowed from somewhere far more romantic. That’s the genre.…
How to Make a Reese Bass in Serum 2
Two detuned saws, a mono sub and a moving filter. The full reese bass recipe with the exact detune numbers I use in our packs.
How to Make Techno in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Techno is a sound-palette genre through and through. Warehouse pressure: kick and bass fused into one rumble, hypnotic stabs, leads with an acid edge. Melody barely exists and chords barely move. What keeps you listening is timbre, and whatever shifts…
How to Make Progressive House in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Progressive House rises or falls on its sound palette — long-arc builds: shimmering arps, layered plucks, basses that keep evolving for thirty-two bars. Patience defines the genre. A sound that would bore you inside eight bars turns hypnotic when given…
How to Make Melodic House in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Melodic House rises or falls on its sound palette — emotional progressions: glassy plucks, wide pads, leads that unfold a story across eight bars. The bass keeps a low profile, the drums stay plain, and the harmony carries everything. Designing…
How to Make Bass House in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Bass House rises or falls on its sound palette: growling low-end power: basses that talk, metallic stabs, drops with the impact of a truck. Structurally it’s house; the bassline, though, runs on dubstep sound design. Designing Serum 2 packs is…
How to Make Tech House in Serum 2 (Free Presets Inside)
Tech house is a sound-palette genre — everything tight and groove-first: punchy stab basses, clipped vocal-ish synths, hooks that behave like percussion. Nothing rings out, nothing gets lush. Every single part is playing rhythm, the bass included. Designing Serum 2…