At PML we love sharing our sound design tips with you. This time we've prepared 10 Xfer Serum tips we found useful. Some of them we found in the SERUM Manual, which is a great read! 1. Customizing LFO Shapes double-click to Add or Remove points shift-click to draw steps on the Grid (similar to a step sequencer) alt-click+drag Points to snap points to the the Grid alt-click+drag any Curve Point to move all curve points at once. click+drag on background to multi-select points command-click+drag a point (ctrl-click on Windows) to multi-select points for a relative movement (rainbow color will...

Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard SERUM VST In this tutorial we are going through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This" only using Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: 00:30 Overview 01:40 Chords04:03 Main Lead Sound Design05:52 Layers06:36 Sidechaining 10:14 Drums14:26 Frequency fillers   More Info: - Grab the Drum Samples Pack: Deep Premium 2 used in this project - Ableton Project for this drop with different MIDIs - 6h+ Beginners course: Pop Track (Chainsmoking Style) from START TO FINISH  - Harmony and Chord Progressions Course - Serum Presets: Future...

The Trap of Collecting Synths How many synth plugins (or hardware synths) do you currently own? Out of those, how many do you use on a regular basis? Do you have one or two ‘go to’ synths that you use on nearly every song? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you should start using just one or two synths out of your collection for the next month. Don’t use anything else. I know you paid good money for them, but don’t worry, you can come back to them after this experiment. Just One Synth?! I...

Short Tutorial Version: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST and/or Serum VST Let's go through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Closer" only using Massive and/or Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: Constructing a powerful pop-ish drum pattern with Kick, heavy Snare, layered Clap and a bunch of rather standard closed and open hihat samples. We are using sounds from our Deep Premium Vol.2 Sample Pack Making a solid deep bass in Massive to go along with the main synth Creating two moody synth layers for the main chord stabs, using...

  In this tutorial, we are remaking the Future Bass sound of Saje "Take Care Of You" with Ableton Live 9 and Serum. We are only using Ableton Live 9 elements and Xfer Records Serum.     Available: Ableton Project from this Tutorial (requires Serum) Drum Samples used: Deep Premium Vol. 1    Learn more about our FULL Start To Finish courses: Learn the foundations of Harmony & Chord Progressions Learn how to produce music in Ableton Live     Available courses: Beginners: Producing A Track From Start To Finish in Ableton Live Producing A Deep House Track From Start To Finish Producing...

In this tutorial, we are making an FM type Bass future house sound design in Serum adding an FM Bass sample into the noise section and combining it with the other oscillators. Grab the free FM sample here: ➤http://bit.ly/pml_s_yt_freesamples Additionally you can get this very bass sound and more Serum presets with our pack Beach Styles for Serum. Drum Samples used are part of Deep Premium Vol. 2 - Drum Sample Pack.   Also new: 4h+ Course: Sound Design with Xfer Serum   Keywords: serum fm bass sound design, serum noise oscillator tutorial, felix jaehn aint nobody bass sound, fm deep house bass, deep...

Hi! We’ve recently done a video explaining how to make Calvin Harris’s pluck bass from „How Deep Is Your Love“. That tutorial included a handful of really useful sound design tips, so we thought we’d list them here. Make sure to check out the full tutorial and the presets at the end of the article!   1. Use FM Synthesis FM Synthesis is essentially altering one waveform type with another. This way you can create original sounding waveforms - this technique is used in Dubstep a lot to create those crazy growls. It can be used to add feeling to...

  We had requests for a tutorial on the synth sound of "Mura Masa - Firefly" (also known: Mura Masa Someday Somewhere, Firefly, Love For That, What If I Go, Liana Bank$). So PML contributor Borys (k-pizza) opened his Ableton and Xfer Serum and remade the wobbly filtered main synths of this nice tune.   Presets are included in our "Beach Styles" SERUM preset pack.   Watch the tutorial:   Keywords: Mura Masa Synth Serum Presets, Ableton Project File, .als, template download    

In this video, Francois is working on a Melodic Deep House track in the style of artists like Worakls, N'to, Joachim Pastor, Sebastien Leger - mainly artists you'd expect on labels like Hungry Music. Watch Studio Session:    Watch & Listen to finished track - Play back:   You can also grab this finished track as project file / template and load it into your own Ableton version.   .  

  In this tutorial, we're showing you how to design a Future Bass LFO Wobble Pad sound with Xfer Serum in the style similar to Louis the Child, Darren Ashley, etc.     Also: Check out our new Future Bass presets for Xfer Serum!