This is mostly a problem when you’re making sounds using lots of voices in unison and maybe a few too many effects on top.

One thing in particular that has been written about a lot on forums and communities is how heavy Serum is on your CPU. So now I’ve written a lot of positive reasons to use Serum, but there has to be some cons to this plugin, right? This is probably the biggest reason that Serums makes a great synth for beginners to learn from and start to dive into basic sound design.

Reverb (that sounds a bit metallic at times, but definitely worth it for some types of sounds).

Distortion (with 13 different types of distortion to choose from).

Hyper / Dimension (a combination of unison and a dimension expander).

There are 10 different effects to be used as post processing directly in the synth: The effects in Serum is another favorite of mine. You can learn a lot by watching him making crazy sound design in his live streams. If you’re interested in the wavetable feature in Serum, you probably should take a look at Virtual Riot when he does his thing in Serum. Synths like Massive began to be criticized a bit for being “overused” when people started to hear exactly what wavetable was used in a specific sound (which is the meme behind Knife Party’s album “100% No Modern Talking” where “Modern Talking” is a wavetable in NI Massive). Also, if you’re one of those guys who are into Dubstep and other genres where the sound design is the most important part, you probably won’t ever run out of new interesting sounds to make.

Does serum vst have samples