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1:04:05 · Serum · named · high confidence
“probably Serum now”
Dylan Brady picks Serum as his current can't-live-without instrument.

A. G. Cook

15:14 · Serum · named · high confidence
“It kind of keeps cycling around to clean Serum and Spire stuff again.”
Serum used almost dry as one of the alternating clean saw synths in Heartache.
28:02 · OTT · named · high confidence
“I put OTT on that as well. I joke a lot about OTT because it's sort of like a curse — once you start using it, it makes everything unbelievably loud.”
Long discussion of the free Xfer multiband compressor OTT, its phasey band character and its association with vocal-chop EDM; used on one aggressive Heartache section.
2:03:27 · Serum · named · high confidence
“I do use Serum quite a lot now... but that's wavetable, so you still can't quite do some of the insane things you can do in Razor.”
Serum is part of his current bread-and-butter synth palette, though he says he had to find a way around its aesthetic.

Barry Cant Swim

25:28 · Serum · named · high confidence
“This is just a Serum patch. I'm not even sure what it is. Bounce Bass.”
The second, groove-keeping bass layer in Still Riding is the Serum preset 'Bounce Bass', EQ'd and sidechained.

Charli XCX

26:24 · Serum · named · high confidence
“So the Serum ones, right? ... I try to make a lot of those kind of sounds from scratch specifically so I can control the detune.”
AG Cook replaced George's soft-synth chords with bespoke Serum patches, building them from scratch so he could control the detune.
28:08 · Serum · implied · high confidence
“Oh look, yeah, you can see here the LFO is mapped to the reverbs.”
Inside the Serum patch they show an LFO modulating the reverb time to make the detuned chords drift and evolve.
56:46 · Serum · named · high confidence
“That's a very similar Serum patch with just the wobbling and stuff moved around differently... I used to hate that plugin because of too many dubstep presets”
The car-rev style risers in Apple's middle section are Serum patches built from initialize; AG and George discuss stripping Serum's presets back.

Clean Bandit

27:26 · Serum · named · high confidence
“That is Serum. That is a preset on Serum called Lead Power. It's quite a Major Lazer-y lead sound.”
The main Crybaby drop lead is the stock Serum preset 'Lead Power'.

Fred

1:35:15 · Serum · named · high confidence
“This is the bass, which is just the default Serum sound. It's like when you load up Serum, it just plays a saw wave”
The bass in 'Hardstyle 2' is Serum's default saw wave patch, untouched apart from filter movement.

Jacob Collier

29:28 · LFOTool · named · high confidence
“there's some pretty heavy LFO Tool on that too, which you can see here, so biting right on the beat”
LFOTool is used to gate/rhythmically chop the Zedd-derived synth so it bites on the beat in the drop.

Jamie xx

1:18:49 · Serum · named · high confidence
“this is the verse bass line, which is just using sort of a regular Serum, very used bass plugin”
The verse bass riff of 'Life' that helped Robyn write her melody is a straightforward Serum patch.

Lorde

1:20:55 · OTT · named · high confidence
“SSL comp, API EQ, then OTT for like a little more energy”
OTT multiband compression adds energy to the Shapeshifter drums.

Myles Smith

26:10 · Serum · named · high confidence
“this is the sub bass. It's just a Serum thing that I love. It's just called Bass Subway.”
The Stargazing sub bass is a Serum preset called Bass Subway, sidechained to the four-to-the-floor kick.

RDS

12:19 · Serum · named · high confidence
“It's like this electro-y thing. That's a Serum patch that we made”
One of the discarded 'Pressure' bass sounds was a custom Serum patch played from the session's graveyard of ideas.
20:42 · Serum · named · high confidence
“it's just an 8th note like Serum thing that we made as a pulse”
A Serum patch provided the eighth-note sub-bass pulse under the main riff, with pitch bends tracked to match the lead bass.

Rudimental

15:19 · Serum · named · high confidence
“Serum, I use Serum a lot, and yeah, just different bass synths between Serum, VPS, and Diva”
Named as one of the main bass synths used across Rudimental's drum and bass productions.
54:04 · Serum · named · high confidence
“I think it was a preset I had in Serum called Bass”
The Green and Gold bass hook came from a Serum preset blended with a Korg M1 sound.
1:01:15 · Serum · named · medium confidence
“No idea where he got them from, probably Diva or Serum”
Guesses that Skepsis' wild end-of-track sounds came from Diva or Serum.
1:18:57 · Serum · named · high confidence
“I think Serum is for me, with all the presets you can download... has that harsh kind of D&B synthy sound”
Picked as a top drum and bass go-to plugin for its downloadable preset banks and harsh synth tone.