Serum Presets
Our Serum & Serum 2 Presets are built from scratch to deliver knock-out sounds for your music, every time! All packs include .fxp presets or a SerumPack file for the plugin synth from Xfer Records, & MIDI loops to get you creating straight after download.
Inspiring Serum Presets & MIDI For Your Soft Synth
Serum patches rich with thick, analog-style waveforms, from electricfying Synthwave leads to evolving Ambient pads, thundering basses, intricate SFX and beyond - this is what you'll find in our collection of custom-designed preset banks for this industry-leading VST soft synth!
We've taken great care to study every intricacy of the stunning Serum synth from Xfer Records, as well as its brand new Serum 2 update, offering unparalleled sound design possibilities in our preset catalogue bestowed with analog-sampled tonality and modulation complexity.
Exceptional sonic quality, movement and inspiration are at the heart of all our Serum presets, ripe and ready to be loaded straight into your DAW - with all 4 (Serum) or 8 (Serum 2) macro controls assigned for every patch as well, you know that perfection is only but the touch of a dial away!
Serum Presets FAQ
Q: What is Serum?
A: Serum is a software synthesizer plugin, developed and supported by Xfer Records . It makes use of sophisticated digital signal processing technology to allow users to generate and manipulate sounds using a process known as wavetable synthesis on a computer, in real-time.
Serum runs as a VST, AU or AAX plugin inside a host application such as Ableton Live, a digital audio workstation, synchronising to the host’s BPM or tempo and triggered by the piano roll or any connected MIDI controller devices.
Q: What is Serum 2?
A: Serum 2 is the recently released update to the original Serum software synth, encompassing brand new oscillator types, wavetables, filter models, modulators, effects and much more.
Serum 2 is a free upgrade for existing Serum license holders, or you can grab yourself a new license over on the Xfer website - explore and listen to some of the stunning new features of Serum 2 in our handy introduction in our magazine section.
Q: What is a Serum preset?
A: A Serum preset or patch is a digital file that stores previously configured synth settings, allowing one user to instantly load up a sound that a developer has spent a great deal of time and care in creating.
Serum presets are saved as '.fxp' files, which also stores any custom wavetable information, whereas Serum 2 presets are saved as '.SerumPreset' files.
Q: How do I download Serum presets?
A: You can download Serum presets right here on ModeAudio! Our presets are all available for use in your music royalty-free, and many of our collections have scored 9/10 and higher from notable music production publications such as Computer Music magazine. Install any presets you've downloaded using our detailed instructions.
Q: What features does Serum have?
A: Serum features 2 main oscillators, plus sub and noise oscillators, which are fed into the synth’s filter and effects sections. Effects include EQ, compression, distortion, chorus, phaser, flanger and reverb.
Serum’s main oscillators each reads through a preloaded wavetable or short audio sample, which are selected either from the synth’s internal library or from the user’s own selection of samples. Almost all of Serum’s parameters can be controlled by a host of envelopes and LFOs.
Serum 2 expands on the core wavetable synthesis technology driving its predecessor by adding granular and spectral synthesis, as well as multi-sampling to its selectable oscillator types. New filter models, modulators, effects and more are all explored in our magazine article.
Q: Why is Serum popular?
A: Serum is extremely easy to use and sounds fantastic out-of-the-box - to put it simply, it takes very little time to create a very professional-sounding result. Serum’s stylistic range extends from Ambient subtlety to EDM maximalism, making it an impressively versatile tool for producers working in virtually any musical genre.
Q: Who created Serum?
A: Serum was created by Steve Duda, owner of Xfer Records. Duda is also known for his musical collaborations with deadmau5.
Q: Which version of Serum are your presets compatible with?
A: We recommend updating your copy of Serum to the latest available version to ensure compatibility with our preset packs (currently v1.36b8, or v2.0.24 for Serum 2).
Q: Do you offer free Serum presets?
A: Yes we do! You can download 5 free taster presets from all of our Serum patches packs simply by visiting the individual pack pages above and hitting the 'Download free pack' button, located just beneath the main pack artwork on the left.
Q: Where can I find out more about Serum?
A: Xfer Records hosts an official support section for Serum via their website should you have any technical questions about the synth, plus you can post questions for specific support requests there also. Reddit's SerumPresets subreddit is another great place to ask questions about and find out more about the soft synth.
Be sure to stop by the ModeAudio Magazine also, where we post tutorials and articles on many different aspects of Serum and how we use it in our production workflow.
Finally, you're more than welcome to fire us a message if you'd like, we're always happy to chat all things Serum!
