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Oct 3, 2008




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Tayter Swift posted:

Picked Serum up last night after watching the Steve Duda videos. Fun but Jesus, this is like choice paralysis defined. What are there, like 140 wavetables, with a zillion ways to manipulate them? I'm finding it hard to know where to start with a patch really, apart from the basic 'uh I want a pad so long ADSR' stuff you do with every synth.

....and those are just the ones that come with the synth! When you really want to go deep you can draw your own wavetables, import existing ones or even convert samples and images into wavetables! :science:

You don't have to get crazy with wavetables immediately though (or ever, I guess) A very neat way of using them is to add variance to an otherwise static sound. You can treat it like a normal synth and pick a sawtooth or w/e wavetable and just use the filters and envelopes and such like you would usually, and then just slightly modulate the wavetable with an envelope or LFO to make the sound a bit more interesting.


Great to see the thread, by the way! I'll be sure to make some posts when I got time, as well as upload more patches :3:

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