serum pre sale question

Hi Steve,

It is probably all in the manual, but if I am not mistaken, the manual can not be obtained before purchasing serum.  

On a private note, I like this attitude, same with the locked forums, and  especially your thoughts on the  "On sale" culture that has left a giant footprint on the virtual instruments market.

Watched three of the videos on serum now, and I am sold, 

Ok, what I wonder about is certain use of importing audio. First a technical question, what is best practise in terms of file format, quality and length that can be imported into serum?

Then, apart from the obvious, that I can go out into the real world,  sample a few dragonflies in a wormhole, and import that sound into serum, I  can import files from various hardware and software as well, right?

So I can record the output of a synth in logic and import this file into serum for further mangling? Assuming all legal restrictions apply by the respective owners. To be more specfic, I have all spectrasonics licenses, and Omnisphere for example comes with something like in excess of 400 waveforms. Of course, I can not go ahead, and import a waveform from omnisphere, create a sound from this by mixing it with my custom noise OSC for example, and then offer this patch for sale, but for my own music, I assume I can do whatever suits my creative needs, right? Pheeew, am I understanding all that correct until now?

Thanks much for reading.

Best wishes for 2016… and 17… and 18, and well…you get the drift. ;)
Georg

Hi Georg,
Thanks for your nice words and interest in Serum.
The maximum practical import length is 11.88 seconds (256 tables at 2048 samples each).    File "format" doesn't matter exactly but suggested is 44100 32-bit mono.
You can experiment with import abilities with the demo version.  fixed frequency sounds will work best for import, such as bass one-shots.   I'd recommend reading the manual on the subject, but yes you can import anything.

In terms of legal restrictions, think of it the same as loading whatever sound into a sampler.   I'm not a lawyer so I don't want to offer legal advice, but I think it is safe to say you're safe recording/using any synth you own with respect to creating your own music, any way you want to.    Selling waveforms is of course a little different, as one should not sell property which they did not create.

Warm Regards,
Steve

Thanks Steve!

Do I read that wrong, or does 44100 32-bit mono imply that importing stereo waveforms  is not supported?

Best
G
P.S. Forgot one, can you share any information on the status quo re NKS implementation to use Serum with NI Kontrol Keyboards? - Cheers! - 

You can use stereo on the noise oscillator but wavetables are mono, yes.  You can achieve stereo effects on them with unison.    

I don't have any public NKS status updates, I don't make promises on future things in a pre-sales capacity.

Thanks!

Yeah, understandable.