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How to Make a Laser Kick in Serum

A laser kick in Serum, made in less than one minute.

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01

A sine wave with two pitch envelopes

I open Serum and take a sine wave. Then I get envelope 2 and envelope 3, and make envelope 2 a little bit longer than envelope 3.

In the matrix I put both of these on master tune and open it up wherever I want it. Then I take it down an octave.

02

LFO 1 on the FM from B

I open up the other oscillator and take it down. I take LFO 1, put it on envelope and add it to FM from B.

03

The reverb goes in front of the distortion

In the effects I add a reverb and set the wetness. Then a multiband compressor, taken down, and I remove a little bit of the highs of the mids. Then a distortion on soft clip, opened up, with the reverb in front of the distortion and the compression.

Now you can take both of these envelopes, change them around and see what happens.

Serum FX rack for a hardstyle laser kick: Reverb, Distortion and Compressor switched on, with the reverb first in the chain, in front of the distortion and the compressor
The reverb sits in front of the distortion and the compressor.
What I use in this video

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