In Serum, the native-mode (default) playback of oscillators operates with an ultra high-precision resampling, yielding an astonishingly inaudible signal-to-noise (for instance, -150 dB on a sawtooth played at 1 Khz at 44100)! This requires a lot of calculations, so Serum’s oscillator playback has been aggressively optimized using SSE2 instructions to allow for this high-quality playback without taxing your CPU any more than the typical (decent quality) soft synth already does. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are astonishingly bad at suppressing artifacts - even on a high-quality setting some create artifacts as high as -36 dB to -60 dB (level difference between fundamental on artifacts) which is well audible, and furthermore often dampening the highest wanted audible frequencies in the process, to try and suppress this unwanted sound. Artifacts mean that you are (perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted tones / frequencies. Without considerable care and a whole lot of number crunching, this process will create audible artifacts. Lastly, the delay section is not available in this free version.Playback of wavetables requires digital resampling to play different frequencies. The LFO can be set to be in tempo with your track at various notes, or you can choose the free option and enable a rotary with which you can choose the exact oscillation. The motion of the oscillation can be altered with the shape function which ranges from sine wave oscillations to triangle, square, and random. The pan can be altered based on delay, level, and spectral – with the level being your typical panning, and delay and spectral panning being based on psychoacoustic effects. Then you can affect the LFO’s distance, it’s amplitude, phase, tilt, and pan. The most interesting aspect of this plugin in my opinion is the LFO or low-frequency oscillator, with which you can greatly affect your signal.įirst, you can position your listening perspective in the 180-degree field, determining its pan and amplitude simultaneously. But what’s a little different about this reverb is that you can affect the stereo width of the reverb using the width rotary. You can also adjust the decay, the predelay, the wet and dry of the signal as well as the amplitude of the early and late reflections. On the left side of the plugin is a reverb section – with options for the material of the walls, the tail and low-frequency range of the reverb, and the size. The LFO can be altered with multiple parameters that change the shape and route of the LFO. Linked Editing causes a smoother sound between points, and reset on note allows midi input to alter the functionality of the plugin. ![]() The bounce loop variable causes the signal to be routed one full direction and then reverse directions. ![]() Lastly, the speed rotary determines the rate at which the Doppler effect occurs.īy dragging the points on the display you can affect the path of your signal, both left and right, and up or down in amplitude.īy clicking Place Curve you add a new point on the scale, Make Straight you straighten the path, Remove Curve you remove your last added point, and Close Path you create a loop with the two closest points. The Volume and Pan scale rotaries affect the volume and panning respectively, and determine how much volume automation and pan automation is present in the signal. The blend rotary is a wet/dry knob, the pitch scale is the rate of pitch shifting ranging from 0 to 1 with 1 being the most aggressive pitch shifting. ![]() Notice the green circle, this is the signal’s spatial location, and it moves within the loop.
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