From the course: Learning Serum
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Adding effects
- [Instructor] The final step in shaping a synth sound often involves adding signal processing. Serum has a well-thought-out FX rack that includes EQ, compression, reverb, and more. Let's take a look at how you can add and order effects, as well as some of the more unique features. So, it's likely your DAW includes effects, and you may even own a third-party effects package, but Serum's effects are also useful, and more importantly, they can be saved within a Serum preset. So, let's start by initializing Serum, and then let's click the FX tab, so that we can see what's there. So, Serum includes 10 effects, and you can enable and disable them by clicking on the button that's just to the left of the effect name. Now, the signal from Serum's four oscillators, the Sub, Noise, Oscillator A, and Oscillator B, are routed through the filter, and then from the filter into the FX section. The only exception to that would be that if you have the Sub enabled, and you've also enabled the Direct…
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