Here’s the complete Serum 2 preset catalog from my studio, organized two ways: by genre, and by the specific sound you’re chasing. Every pack on this page was designed and tested inside Serum 2 itself.
Never paid for presets before? Begin with the free ones. The 250+ free pack handles most of what a new producer needs, and finding out whether my sound is your sound costs nothing.
From there I go through the catalog pack by pack and tell you who each one suits. Wherever a $7 pack does the same job as a $27 one, I say so out loud.
Every Serum 2 preset pack
85 packs, 35 of them free. Every pack with a demo plays right here — no page-hopping to find out what it sounds like.
Catalogue updated August 2026
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Nothing in that lane yet.
Start here: the free packs
Leading with the free stuff isn’t a sales trick. Most people arriving on a preset page aren’t ready to spend yet, and a pack you never open is worse value than one you got for free and used twice.
The centerpiece is the 250+ Serum 2 free preset pack. Over 3,100 downloads so far, and it’s the broadest of the free packs: bass, leads, plucks, keys, pads. If this page gives you exactly one thing, let it be that.
Beyond it sit the focused free packs, divided by sound so you’re not scrolling through 200 patches hunting for one bass:
- Free Serum 2 piano presets: past 1,000 downloads, the most popular of the small ones.
- Free 808 presets: 527 downloads. Tuned, sub-heavy, ready to pitch.
- Free keys presets: 472 downloads. Electric pianos, bells, soft mallets.
- Free bass presets: 445 downloads. House and club-weight low end.
- Free synth presets and free guitar presets covering the in-between sounds.
- Free atmosphere presets and free arpeggio presets handling texture and movement.
Free packs cut by genre exist too, for anyone who already knows what they’re making: deep house, tech house, house, bass house, melodic house, progressive house and techno.
The honest version: the free packs are smaller, less specialised, and get less of my time than the paid ones. They are not demos with the good half stripped out, though. If a free pack carries you through a track, the job is done and you owe me nothing. I wrote more on squeezing value out of them in the free Serum 2 presets guide.
What actually makes a preset pack worth buying
Most preset packs online are poor value, and it always comes down to the same five failures. This is what I check before buying anyone else’s pack, and the standard I try to hold my own to.
Built for Serum 2, or ported from Serum 1. The big question right now. Serum 2 brought new oscillator modes, a real granular engine and better filters. A pack made in Serum 1 and re-saved will load without issue, and use none of it. That’s 2026 prices for 2019 sound design. Ask directly, or check whether the pack names specific Serum 2 features.
Mapped macros. A preset whose four macros do nothing is a dead end. Either you use it exactly as delivered, or you open the matrix and wire the controls yourself. Mapped macros separate a preset from a starting point. In my packs, macro 1 is nearly always the one that shifts the character hardest, so one knob auditions the variations.
Demos of the presets, not of a finished track. A demo with drums, mix bus glue and a mastered top end reveals nothing about how a patch behaves alone in your session. Every audio demo on this page is a raw preset or a short loop from the pack, never a produced record. That’s deliberate, and it’s why a few of them sound plain.
Usable patches versus filler. Three hundred presets with 40 good ones is a worse pack than 40 presets where all 40 land. Inflating the count is trivial: take a patch, nudge the filter cutoff, save it as a variation. So when you evaluate a pack, divide the number by how many genuinely distinct sounds the demos contain.
Fit with what you actually make. The check everyone skips. The best drum and bass pack in existence is useless to a lo-fi producer. Shopping by genre beats shopping by preset count nearly every time.
And the practical part: listen before buying. Every product page here carries playable demos of the real patches. Play three or four, loud, through whatever you normally mix on. If none of them makes you want to open your DAW, that pack isn’t for you today, at any price.
Best Serum 2 presets by genre
This is how I’d shop in your position. Find your genre, pick one pack, finish a track with it, then come back.
Tech House & House
The busiest corner of my catalog, and the one I’ve built the most for. The best seller is where to start.
FISHLAKE Vol.1 — Tech House ($27) is the usual first purchase, sitting at 125 sales. Club bass, stabs, and those plucky mid sounds that hold a tech house groove together. Samples come included, so it’s a full toolkit rather than synths alone.
One of its bass patches, solo, no drums:
Fishlake Vol.2 ($27) continues the series: darker, more minimal, built for later hours. Get it second, not first. Techsonic ($27) covers the peak-time end, loud and bright and festival-facing. And House Presets Vol.1 ($27) is the wider, less genre-locked option.
Want the whole thing in one go? Melomagic House Mega Pack ($49) is the big house bank. Priced above two $27 packs, it only makes sense if house is your full-time genre.
Deep & Melodic House
Modern Deep House Vol.1 ($27) and Deep House Vol.2 ($27) sit close in quality and nearly even in sales. Vol.1 runs warmer and more classic. Vol.2 sounds more modern and more processed. Take one, not both.
Vol.2 in context:
Slap & Deep House MegaPack ($49) is the pick if slap house specifically is your lane; the sample side comes bundled in. For melodic house and techno, North Sea ($7) is the cheapest door into that sound, organic drums included. At that price it’s the easiest call on this whole page. Slap House Serum 2 Presets ($7) handles the bounce-bass side.
Trap & Hip-Hop
Synopsis — 808 Presets ($27) is the specialist choice: 808s that keep their tuning down low and still translate on small speakers. If 808s are all you’re missing, look no further.
Go2 Beatmaking Pack ($15) casts wider: presets plus drums and loops aimed at trap and drill, good for building beats from zero. Baroque ($27) is the outlier: orchestral, string-led hip-hop tones for that dramatic sample-flip feel. Melancholic Lo-Fi Vol.1 ($7) takes care of the softer, dustier end.
Future Bass & EDM
Harmonic Horizons ($10) is the future bass pack: wide supersaws, chords that welcome vocal chops, drop leads. Hard to argue with at $10.
One of its lead patches:
For EDM the workhorse is the Nextgen series. Vol.1 costs $9 and is the cheapest way to test whether the series clicks for you. Vol.2 and Vol.3 run $27 apiece and dig deeper. Start with Vol.1. Use it for a month, then buy the next. The three volumes overlap far less than the numbering implies.
Arcadia ($27) handles big-room, and Future Bass Presets ($7) delivers 40 patches for anyone who wants drop chords and nothing beyond them.
Piano & Keys
Serum isn’t the obvious piano tool, which is precisely why these sell. Synthesised keys, not sampled ones, so they slot into a mix without dragging the weight of a real piano library behind them.
Keys Vol.4 ($27) is the strongest of the run and the one I’d purchase today. Piano Vol.3 ($27) trails it closely and leans a touch darker. Vol.1 and Vol.2 remain available for the earlier, simpler sound.
The Genius ($27) goes cinematic, while Keys of Majesty ($24) tilts classical and ornate.
Before spending a cent, hear the free piano pack — for plenty of people it already covers the need:
Guitars & Organic
BUMPY — Guitar Presets ($27) is guitar constructed inside Serum rather than recorded through a mic. Clean, distorted, plucked and muted tones playable as MIDI, so you can write parts your hands could never physically manage.
For organic texture minus the guitars, the free guitar presets offer the zero-risk version of the same concept.
RnB & Soul
RnB Vol.1 ($7) ranks second best seller across the whole site with 105 sales. Soft keys, warm bass, and the round pad tones that live under a vocal. Seven dollars is the correct price for it, and I’ve never raised it.
The sample-and-loop take on the same sound:
Bass Music & DnB
Epic Tones — Drum & Bass ($27) is the drum and bass pack: reeses, growls, plus the mid-range noise that makes a DnB drop actually work.
Grumble ($7) covers the aggressive, talking-bass territory. Deliberately narrow, and at $7 it’s the cheapest route to that particular sound.
SUB CULTURE ($17) is the newest and the most methodical, a complete bass system rather than a folder full of patches. If low end is the thing that keeps beating you, read my write-up on the best Serum 2 bass presets before deciding.
Phonk & Drill
House Phonk Ultimate Edition ($7) is the phonk choice: cowbell-adjacent leads, detuned melodies, distorted 808s, and the samples to assemble a beat around them. 66 sales at $7 with zero marketing spend behind it.
Drill producers should look at the Go2 pack ($15) instead: sliding 808s and dark, sparse melodic tones.
Niche and specialist
Small packs, steady sales, exactly the people who need them.
Brass Serum 2 Presets ($15): synthesised brass stabs and sections, 62 sales. Handy anywhere a real brass section would cost too much and play too loud.
Eurodance ($7) delivers the nineties rave sound, and it’s more fun than it has any right to be. Technocraft ($27) is techno done properly: hypnotic, industrial, sparse. Future Rave ($7) handles the loud sawtooth-heavy festival style. Elixir ($15) and Colors ($27) stay genre-agnostic, for people shopping for sounds rather than a style.
Best Serum 2 presets by sound type
Sometimes the genre doesn’t matter, you just need one sound. Each category below points to a free pack first and one paid pack second, so you can try the category before spending on it.
Bass
Free: 445 people have taken the free bass pack, which covers house and club weight. Paid: SUB CULTURE ($17) for a complete system, or Epic Tones ($27) when your bass has to be loud and moving.
Leads
Free: the free synth presets carry the widest range of lead shapes. Paid: Creative Leads Vol.1 ($15), built specifically for lead duty: mono, wide, and cutting takes on the same idea, so swapping doesn’t mean rewriting the part.
Plucks
Free: free arpeggio presets; plucks and arps are nearly the same category. Paid: Creative Plucks Vol.1 ($15). Plucks are the sound producers under-buy and then desperately need at 2am.
Pads & atmospheres
Free: free atmosphere presets, 191 downloads. Paid: Elixir ($15) holds the most usable pads in the catalog. Pads are where Serum 2’s new engine earns its keep most: the granular modes deliver movement Serum 1 couldn’t touch without heavy layering.
Keys & piano
Free: free keys presets, 472 downloads, plus the free piano pack for acoustic-leaning tones. Paid: Keys Vol.4 ($27).
808s
Free: free 808 presets, 527 downloads, tuned out of the box. Paid: Synopsis ($27).
Bundles: when buying everything is cheaper
A bundle only earns its place if the maths holds, so here it is, plainly.
Each of the three genre bundles costs $59. Most of my full packs run $27. So the bundle breaks even once it stands in for three $27 packs, and every pack beyond that is effectively free. If one pack was all you were ever going to buy, a bundle is the worse deal and you should skip it.
Dance & Electronic Bundle ($59) serves house, tech house, EDM and techno producers. Hip-Hop Mega Bundle ($59) spans trap, drill, phonk, lo-fi and RnB. Pop & Melodic Bundle ($59) collects the pop, piano-led and melodic material.
The Ultimate Piano Bundle sits at $29 and rounds up the piano and keys volumes. With single piano packs at $27, it only has to replace two packs to justify itself, the easiest bundle maths on the site.
They all live in the bundles category.
My genuine advice: don’t make a bundle your first purchase. Take one $7 or $9 pack, work with it, and learn whether you like how I build patches. After that, a bundle becomes a good decision rather than a hopeful one.
Flagship packs compared
| Pack | Price | Best for | Standout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 250+ Free Pack | Free | Starting out | Widest spread, no cost |
| FISHLAKE Vol.1 | $27 | Tech house | Best seller, samples included |
| RnB Vol.1 | $7 | RnB, soul | Best value in the catalog |
| Modern Deep House Vol.1 | $27 | Deep house | Warm, classic tone |
| Nextgen Vol.1 | $9 | EDM, festival | Cheap way into the series |
| Keys Vol.4 | $27 | Piano, keys | Mixes without a sample library |
| Harmonic Horizons | $10 | Future bass | Drop chords and wide leads |
| Epic Tones | $27 | Drum & bass | Reeses and growl mids |
| Slap & Deep House MegaPack | $49 | Slap house | Presets plus full sample set |
| Dance & Electronic Bundle | $59 | Full-time dance producers | Replaces several $27 packs |
How to install any of these in Serum 2
Every pack of mine installs identically, and the whole thing takes about a minute.
Download the zip and extract it somewhere permanent, meaning not your Downloads folder. Open Serum 2, hit the menu in the top right and pick the option that reveals the presets folder. Drag your unzipped pack folder into the Presets directory that opens. Back inside Serum 2, use that same menu to rescan. The pack shows up in the browser as its own category.
Packs that include samples or wavetables put those in the Noises and Tables folders within the same directory, never in Presets. That one mix-up generates most of the support emails I answer.
The long version, with screenshots and the Windows and macOS paths written out, lives in the Serum 2 preset installation guide.
FAQ
Do Serum 1 presets work in Serum 2?
Yes. Serum 2 opens Serum 1 presets and they sound identical. The reverse doesn’t hold: a preset built on Serum 2’s new oscillator or granular modes won’t open in Serum 1.
Are these presets royalty-free?
Yes. Everything on this page is royalty-free for commercial work. Make the track, release it, keep every cent. What you can’t do is resell or redistribute the presets themselves as a pack.
How many presets do I actually need?
Fewer than you’d guess. A typical finished track uses three to six synth sounds. One well-chosen 40-preset pack in your genre outperforms a thousand presets you never audition.
Free or paid: what is the real difference?
Free packs run smaller and broader. Paid packs center on one genre, ship with mapped macros, and contain the sound design I spent the longest on. If a free pack is already carrying your tracks, stay right where you are.
Do I need Serum 2, or will Serum 1 do?
Serum 1 opens most of my catalog, but the newer packs rely on Serum 2 features and won’t load in Serum 1. For the upgrade decision, I compared both in detail in Serum 1 vs Serum 2.
Which pack should a beginner start with?
The 250+ free pack, followed by one $7 pack in your genre. Don’t drop $59 before you’ve finished a single track.
Still on the fence? Take the free pack and spend an evening with it. You’ll know fast whether these sounds match what you make, and that answer beats any description on this page. The paid stuff will still be here whenever you’re ready.
I run Monosounds.studio and make the packs myself. Ten-plus years of producing, 97+ releases, 16,000+ downloads. Every Serum 2 preset we ship passes a CPU check on a mid-range laptop and gets used in a real track before release. If it does not survive a mix, it does not go in the pack.
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