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How to Make Creative Hardstyle Kick Punches in Serum

How to create very creative hardstyle punches, just in Serum.

My notes from this Short

01

An LFO envelope on the global amplitude

I shape LFO 1 to cut the volume and put it on envelope. In the matrix I put LFO 1 on the global amplitude and open it up.

02

A clicky transient from a sine

LFO 2 goes on envelope and hertz mode, and I add it to the coarse pitch. Pitch up two octaves.

I pitch oscillator B up as well, take a sine wave and add LFO 2 to its coarse pitch on a very high amount. We're looking for the clicky transient here.

03

Drive, reverb and a comb filter

In the effects I add distortion on Zero Square and put LFO 1 on the drive. Then a compressor with the attack down, because we're looking for that transient. I take a reverb, make an LFO that stops at the end and add it to the mix from zero to 100%.

In the filter I add a flanger or comb filter, put A and B through it and add drive. Different keys give you different tonalities, and you can also change the LFOs.

Serum distortion on Zero-Square for a hardstyle kick punch, with LFO 1 on the drive at 100 and the LFO 1 envelope shape below
Zero Square on the distortion, with LFO 1 on the drive at 100.
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