{"id":200,"date":"2017-07-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/top-tips-for-becoming-a-serum-power-user\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:00:00","slug":"top-tips-for-becoming-serum-power-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/top-tips-for-becoming-serum-power-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips For Becoming a Serum Power-User"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two great ways to judge a software synthesiser are by looking at its immediate ease of use, and it’s deeper feature set. Without a doubt, Xfer Serum reigns king in both aspects. With an incredibly intuitive interface that allows instant editing capability from the very first attempt to deeper more hidden features that allow experienced users to keep learning after many hours of use. Today, we are going to cover some of my top tips for becoming a Serum power user, and how to use its features to make the most of the synth, opening up the range of sounds available to you.<\/div>\n
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One of the best features of Serum, that isn’t immediately obvious, is the shortcuts. Use of Ctrl, Shift, and Alt opens up much wider control of the synth, from LFO drawing to modulation direction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By using Alt + drag, you can adjust the modulation range by clicking on the knob, which saves trying to click the smaller modulation range control above the knob.<\/div>\n

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Alt + Shift and clicking on a modulated knob changes from unipolar to bipolar mode. Unipolar means that the modulation progresses in one direction from the knob position, bi-polar means it goes each side, with the knob being in the centre position.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hitting Ctrl and clicking resets any control to its original value, great if you want to undo a change. For more precise movement hold shift while moving a knob and it will move much slower allowing smaller changes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There are many more of course, discoverable through playing about, reading the manual, and even watching Youtube tutorials.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A great way of freeing up oscillators in Serum is to resample to an oscillator<\/a>. What this does, is renders a whole bar, including all effects and modulations into one oscillator. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  • It takes a 1 bar sample of the sound so you may want to tweak your LFOs to span one bar.<\/li>\n
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  • It simply renders to a wavetable oscillator. Any modulations on that oscillator need to be removed. You will also want to turn the filters, sub, and FX off because they aren’t turned off by default when you render. (Remember all of these are “sampled” into the new wavetable so keeping them on will double the effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n