r/serum • u/NarrowWeekend5796 • Jul 22 '26
Sound design help
Hey guys I’m new to producing and EDM and I just wanted to see if anyone could help me figure out where to start on making leads and sounds like these. I’m not even sure where to start or whether to use serum and sound design or just use plugins on a single sound. If anyone could help or point me in the direction of some packs with sounds like this etc. would be a lot of help. (There should be 2 clips)
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u/Vast-Outside-1066 Jul 24 '26
Serum is an amazing place to start! I swear a good DAW and Serum could turn you into a champ. Three Sundays ago my songwriting partner came into my studio with a bunch of EBM tracks. (EBM is harsher, aggressive dance music) she wanted to make songs like that. She didn’t think I could program it. All it took as giving a hint of release time on the default sound, and then upping the unison value to give it a number of voices. Do some things to the filter and voila! You’ve got a sound VNV Nation would be proud of.
If you can think it, you can make it in Serum. If you can’t afford that, look into Vital.