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How to Make Extreme Detune in Serum 2 by Resampling

If you want to go extreme with your detune in Serum 2, here's a really cool method I found that also saves some CPU.

My notes from this Short

01

Render the detuned sound into oscillator B

I start with A on 16 voices with a lot of detune, and use envelope 2 to get a pitch down effect. After playing it all the way, I render it and drop it into oscillator B in sample mode.

Disable A to listen to B, and detune it all the way. That gives a weird phase effect, so go to the gear icon and turn on unison random start.

Serum 2 oscillator B in sample mode with 16 unison voices and the unison settings open, random start turned up to 100 against the phase effect of the resampled detune
Random start all the way up on oscillator B.
02

Resample it again and again

Play it all the way and resample. Do that a few times, then normalize it. Make sure you save the sample into your preset.

Being able to resample your detuned sound into a new detuned sound, again and again, is really powerful.

03

Clarity on top with Hyper/Dimension and chorus

Maybe reintroduce A with fewer voices to save CPU. Change it to a range of 3 with a bit less width, to add some clarity on top of the wildly detuned sample. In the effects, use Hyper/Dimension on a high detune mode with 7 voices, not too much mix and more rate.

The chorus is very powerful as well when you switch it from low pass to high pass filter. Put it at 100% to hear what you're doing, increase the rate, take the delay and depth down, and put the mix at a comfortable spot.

What I use in this video

Serum 2

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