This is the full Serum 2 preset catalog from my studio, sorted two ways: by genre, and by the kind of sound you are hunting for. Every pack here was built and tested inside Serum 2 itself.
If you have never paid for presets, start with the free ones. The 250+ free pack covers most of what a new producer needs, and it costs nothing to find out whether my sound is your sound.
After that I go pack by pack and say who each one is for. Where a $7 pack does the same job as a $27 one, I say so.
Start here: the free packs
Putting the free stuff first is not a trick. Most people who land on a preset page are not ready to buy yet, and a pack you never open is worse value than one you downloaded for nothing and used twice.
The main one is the 250+ Serum 2 free preset pack. It has been downloaded over 3,100 times and it is the widest of the free packs: bass, leads, plucks, keys, pads. If you only take one thing from this page, take that.
Then there are the focused free packs, split by sound so you are not scrolling past 200 patches to find one bass:
- Free Serum 2 piano presets — over 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 for the in-between sounds.
- Free atmosphere presets and free arpeggio presets for texture and movement.
There are also free packs cut by genre if you already know what you are making: deep house, tech house, house, bass house, melodic house, progressive house and techno.
Honest version: the free packs are smaller and less specialised than the paid ones, and they get less of my time. But they are not demos with the good half removed. If a free pack gets you through a track, that is the job done, and you do not owe me anything. I wrote more about how to get the most out of them in the free Serum 2 presets guide.
What actually makes a preset pack worth buying
Most preset packs on the internet are bad value, and the reasons are always the same five. Here is what I check before I buy someone else’s pack, and what I try to hold my own to.
Built for Serum 2, or ported from Serum 1. This is the big one right now. Serum 2 added new oscillator modes, a proper granular engine and better filters. A pack that was built in Serum 1 and re-saved will load fine, but none of it uses anything new. You are paying 2026 prices for 2019 sound design. Ask, or look at whether the pack mentions specific Serum 2 features.
Mapped macros. A preset where all four macros do nothing is a dead end. You either use it exactly as it came, or you open the matrix and build the controls yourself. Mapped macros are the difference between a preset and a starting point. On my packs, macro 1 is almost always the one that changes the character most, so you can audition variations with one knob.
Demos of the presets, not of a finished track. A demo track with drums, mix bus glue and a mastered top end tells you nothing about how a patch sounds alone in your project. Every audio demo on this page is a raw preset or a short loop from the pack, not a produced record. That is deliberate, and it is why some of them sound plain.
Usable patches versus filler. A 300-preset pack where 40 are good is worse than a 40-preset pack where all 40 are good. Big numbers are easy to make: take one patch, change the filter cutoff, save it as a variation. When you look at a pack, divide the count by the number of genuinely different sounds you can hear in the demos.
Fit with what you actually make. This is the one people skip. A brilliant drum and bass pack is worthless if you make lo-fi. Buying by genre beats buying by preset count almost every time.
And the practical advice: audition before you buy. Every product page here has playable demos of the actual patches. Play three or four, at volume, on whatever you normally mix on. If nothing makes you want to open your DAW, that pack is not for you today, whatever the price is.
Best Serum 2 presets by genre
This is how I would shop if I were you. Find your genre, take one pack, finish a track with it, then come back.
Tech House & House
The most requested corner of my catalog, and the one I have made the most for. Start with the best seller.
FISHLAKE Vol.1 — Tech House ($27) is the pack most people buy first, with 125 sales. Club bass, stabs, and the plucky mid sounds that carry a tech house groove. It also comes with samples, so it is a full toolkit rather than just synths.
Here is one of the bass patches on its own, no drums:
Fishlake Vol.2 ($27) is the sequel — darker, more minimal, more late-night. Buy it second, not first. Techsonic ($27) is the peak-time option if you want the loud, bright, festival end of tech house. And House Presets Vol.1 ($27) is the broader, less genre-locked one.
If you want all of it at once, Melomagic House Mega Pack ($49) is the big house bank. It costs more than two $27 packs, so only take it if you make house full time.
Deep & Melodic House
Modern Deep House Vol.1 ($27) and Deep House Vol.2 ($27) are close in quality and nearly tied in sales. Vol.1 leans warmer and more classic. Vol.2 is more modern and more processed. Pick one, not both.
Vol.2 in context:
Slap & Deep House MegaPack ($49) is the one to get if you make slap house specifically — it includes the sample side too. For melodic house and techno, North Sea ($7) is the cheapest way into that sound, and it comes with organic drums. At that price it is the easiest recommendation on this page. Slap House Serum 2 Presets ($7) covers the bounce-bass side.
Trap & Hip-Hop
Synopsis — 808 Presets ($27) is the specialist pick: 808s that hold their tuning down low and still cut on small speakers. If 808s are the only thing you need, this is it.
Go2 Beatmaking Pack ($15) is broader — presets plus drums and loops for trap and drill. Good if you are building beats from nothing. Baroque ($27) is the odd one: orchestral and string-led hip-hop tones, for the dramatic sample-flip sound. Melancholic Lo-Fi Vol.1 ($7) covers the softer, dustier end.
Future Bass & EDM
Harmonic Horizons ($10) is the future bass pack — wide supersaws, vocal-chop-friendly chords, drop leads. At $10 it is hard to argue with.
One of its lead patches:
The Nextgen series is the EDM workhorse. Vol.1 is $9 and the cheapest way to hear whether the series suits you. Vol.2 and Vol.3 are $27 each and go deeper. Buy Vol.1 first. If you use it for a month, buy the next. The three volumes overlap less than the numbering suggests.
Arcadia ($27) is the big-room option, and Future Bass Presets ($7) is 40 patches for people who just want drop chords and nothing else.
Piano & Keys
Serum is not the obvious tool for piano, which is exactly why these sell. They are synthesised keys, not sampled ones — they sit in a mix without the weight of a real piano library.
Keys Vol.4 ($27) is the strongest of the series and the one I would buy today. Piano Vol.3 ($27) is close behind and slightly darker. Vol.1 and Vol.2 are still there if you want the earlier, simpler sound.
The Genius ($27) is the cinematic one, and Keys of Majesty ($24) leans classical and ornate.
Before you spend anything, listen to the free piano pack — for a lot of people it is already enough:
Guitars & Organic
BUMPY — Guitar Presets ($27) is guitar built in Serum rather than recorded. Clean, distorted, plucked and muted tones you can play as MIDI, which means you can write parts you cannot physically play.
If you want organic texture without guitars, the free guitar presets are the no-risk version of the same idea.
RnB & Soul
RnB Vol.1 ($7) is the second best seller on the whole site, at 105 sales. Soft keys, warm bass, the round pad sounds that sit under a vocal. Seven dollars is the right price for it and I have never raised it.
For the sample-and-loop side of the same sound:
Bass Music & DnB
Epic Tones — Drum & Bass ($27) is the drum and bass pack: reeses, growls, and the mid-range noise that makes a DnB drop work.
Grumble ($7) is the aggressive, talking-bass pack. It is narrow on purpose, and at $7 it is the cheapest way to get that specific sound.
SUB CULTURE ($17) is the newest and the most systematic — a complete bass system rather than a folder of patches. If low end is the thing you struggle with, read my write-up on the best Serum 2 bass presets before you choose.
Phonk & Drill
House Phonk Ultimate Edition ($7) is the phonk pick — cowbell-adjacent leads, detuned melodies, distorted 808s, plus the samples to build a beat around them. 66 sales at $7 with no marketing behind it.
For drill, the Go2 pack ($15) is the better fit — sliding 808s and dark, sparse melodic tones.
Niche and specialist
These are small and they sell steadily to the people who need them.
Brass Serum 2 Presets ($15) — synthesised brass stabs and sections, 62 sales. Useful anywhere a real brass section would be too expensive and too loud.
Eurodance ($7) is the nineties rave sound, and it is more fun than it has any right to be. Technocraft ($27) is proper techno: hypnotic, industrial, sparse. Future Rave ($7) covers the loud, sawtooth-heavy festival sound. Elixir ($15) and Colors ($27) are the genre-agnostic ones, for people who want sounds rather than a style.
Best Serum 2 presets by sound type
Sometimes you do not need a genre, you need one sound. Each of these points at a free pack first and one paid pack second, so you can test the category before you spend.
Bass
Free: 445 people have taken the free bass pack, and it covers house and club weight. Paid: SUB CULTURE ($17) if you want a full system, or Epic Tones ($27) if your bass needs to be loud and moving.
Leads
Free: the free synth presets have the widest spread of lead shapes. Paid: Creative Leads Vol.1 ($15) is the one built specifically for lead duty — mono, wide, and cutting variants of the same idea so you can swap without rewriting the part.
Plucks
Free: free arpeggio presets — plucks and arps overlap almost completely. Paid: Creative Plucks Vol.1 ($15). Plucks are the sound most producers under-buy and then need urgently at 2am.
Pads & atmospheres
Free: free atmosphere presets, 191 downloads. Paid: Elixir ($15) has the most usable pads in the catalog. Pads are where Serum 2’s new engine helps most — the granular modes give you movement that Serum 1 could not do without heavy layering.
Keys & piano
Free: free keys presets, 472 downloads, and the free piano pack if you want acoustic-leaning tones. Paid: Keys Vol.4 ($27).
808s
Free: free 808 presets, 527 downloads, already tuned. Paid: Synopsis ($27).
Bundles: when buying everything is cheaper
Bundles only make sense if the maths works, so here it is plainly.
The three genre bundles are $59 each. Most of my full packs are $27. So a bundle pays for itself the moment it replaces three $27 packs, and every pack after that is free. If you were only ever going to buy one pack, a bundle is a worse deal and you should not take it.
Dance & Electronic Bundle ($59) is the one for house, tech house, EDM and techno producers. Hip-Hop Mega Bundle ($59) covers trap, drill, phonk, lo-fi and RnB. Pop & Melodic Bundle ($59) is pop, piano-led and melodic material.
The Ultimate Piano Bundle is $29 and gathers the piano and keys volumes. Since a single piano pack is $27, this one only needs to replace two packs to be worth it — the easiest bundle maths on the site.
All of them live in the bundles category.
My honest advice: do not buy a bundle first. Buy one $7 or $9 pack, use it, and find out if you like how I build patches. Then a bundle is a good decision instead of 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
All of my packs install the same way, and it takes about a minute.
Download the zip and unpack it somewhere permanent — not your Downloads folder. Open Serum 2, click the menu in the top right and choose to show the presets folder. Drag the unzipped pack folder into the Presets directory that opens. Back in Serum 2, use the same menu to rescan the folder. Your pack appears in the browser as its own category.
If the pack came with samples or wavetables, those go into the Noises and Tables folders in the same directory, not into Presets. That single mistake causes most of the support emails I get.
The full version, with screenshots and the Windows and macOS paths spelled out, is 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 the same. It does not work the other way round, so a preset built with Serum 2’s new oscillator or granular modes will not load in Serum 1.
Are these presets royalty-free?
Yes. Every pack on this page is royalty-free for commercial use. Make a track, release it, keep all of it. You cannot resell or redistribute the presets themselves as a pack.
How many presets do I actually need?
Fewer than you think. Most finished tracks use three to six synth sounds. One well-matched 40-preset pack for your genre beats a thousand presets you never audition.
Free or paid — what is the real difference?
The free packs are smaller and broader. The paid packs are built around one genre, have mapped macros, and include the sound design I spent longest on. If the free pack is already carrying your tracks, stay there.
Do I need Serum 2, or will Serum 1 do?
Serum 1 will load most of my catalog, but the newer packs use Serum 2 features and will not open in Serum 1. I compared the two in detail in Serum 1 vs Serum 2 if you are deciding whether to upgrade.
Which pack should a beginner start with?
The 250+ free pack, then one $7 pack in your genre. Do not spend $59 before you have finished a track.
If you are still not sure, take the free pack and give it an evening. You will know very quickly whether these sounds fit what you make, and that answer is worth more than any description on this page. Everything paid will still be here when you are 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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