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How to Make a Rawstyle Kick in Serum Only

It's very easy to make these rawstyle kicks in Serum only.

My notes from this Short

01

Two saws and an LFO for the reverb tail

I start off with two saw waves and take down the randomization. LFO 1 goes to the level of oscillator A, LFO 2 gets its own shape, and I put both of these on envelope.

LFO 3 will be our reverb tail, also on envelope. I enable the reverb and add LFO 3 to the mix.

02

High 24 on the punch only

Then it's important to add a compressor on multiband and distortion on Diode 2, all the way open. To separate the punch from the crunch, I open the filter and only get A through it. I select High 24 with a lot of resonance and drive.

Serum filter for a rawstyle kick: High 24 with a resonance peak, with only oscillator A routed through it
High 24 on A only, with a lot of resonance.
03

Flanger, FM and a pogo LFO

I add some more reverb, then a filter with a flanger. Now you can find weird kicks. I FM the punch from the crunch and change the crunch to a digital one.

Finally I take LFO 4, put it on envelope and assign it to the coarse pitch to add some pogo effect.

What I use in this video

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