Sound design breakdowns, production techniques and honest studio advice from the team behind 97+ packs — written for producers who finish tracks.
The sound palette decides everything in House: classic four-on-the-floor warmth, swung chords, rubbery basslines, hands-in-the-air leads. This is the parent genre of most things that fill a dance floor, and the rules are simple enough that an afternoon covers them.…
The sound palette is everything in Deep House, all smoky after-hours textures: basses heavy on sub, dusty organ keys, plucks tucked behind the beat. This is dance music you can talk over, so every element has to justify being there.…
A full walkthrough of our 250+ free Serum 2 presets: what's in each of the ten categories, how we made the patches, the royalty-free license, and how to install and rework them.
Serum 2, Phase Plant, and Pigments all sound great. I've built patches in all three - here's which one to actually buy, based on your genre and how you learn.
Vital is free and covers most of a classic wavetable workflow. So when does Serum 2 actually earn its price? A preset maker's honest breakdown.
The exact chain I use for wobbly tape keys in Serum 2: pitch drift LFOs, a vinyl noise layer, an analog low-pass, gentle overdrive, and granular texture beds. Real settings, no sample chopping.
The exact Serum 2 settings behind phonk's core sounds: the metallic pitch-bent cowbell, the distorted cowbass, dark detuned leads, and that lo-fi tape drift. Plus house phonk vs drift phonk, explained with numbers.
The full Afterlife-style recipe: a drifting analog pluck, one huge dark pad, velocity-shaped arps and automated reverb tails - with the exact Serum 2 settings I use in our packs.
Two tech house bass recipes for Serum 2: the rolling offbeat workhorse and the vocal formant stab. Real settings, real BPM numbers, no vague advice.
The full future bass chord recipe in Serum 2: unison and detune values, OTT-style multiband compression, filter wobble, and the baked-in sidechain pump - with every setting spelled out.
Five practical ways to build vocal chops inside Serum 2 - sample oscillator, multisample mapping, granular textures, spectral ghost vocals, and a fake vocal from scratch when you have no sample at all.
The exact growl recipe we use at Monosounds: vowel wavetables, FM warp, formant movement, distortion into phaser, and the resampling loop that makes Serum 2 patches talk.