Serum provides you with multiple ways to create and manipulate sound, enabling you to design virtually any kind of sound you can imagine (and some you may not have thought possible).

Specifically, Serum offers you the following sound generation options, accessible through oscillators A to C (OSC A, OSC B, and OSC C), with each offering a distinct approach to sound sculpting:

• Wavetable — Produces an evolving soundscape by cycling through or morphing between multiple waveforms stored in a wavetable
• Multisample — Uses multiple recordings (samples) of instruments (or other sound generators) across various notes and dynamic ranges
• Sample — Uses single samples that can be played back at different pitches, layered, looped, or transformed with various effects
• Granular — Layers, stretches, rearranges, or modulates tiny sound fragments called grains to create new sound textures
• Spectral — Manipulates sound by analyzing and resynthesizing the frequency spectrum, creating new sounds with independent control over time and pitch

You can access the sound generators using a drop-down menu.

As you read through this manual, you’ll learn how to use each option in detail to help craft the sounds you want.