May 25, 2019 Andrew PausePlayRepeat

How to make a Trap Lead like Quix in Serum

Under OSC A select a Saw Wave

Set the Unison to 4
Dial back the detune knob to

Under OSC B select a Square Wave

Lower the Octave by 1
Set the Unison to 4
DIal back the Detune Knob to .10

Under Sub select a Triangle Wave

Lower the Octave by 1

Under Noise select BrightWhite

Using White noise will fill up any gaps in the frequency spectrum
Make sure Note mode is activated

Now for the filter, select Combs under Misc

This is one of the signature ingredients when making a lead like Quix
Make sure Both Oscillators, as well as the Sub and Noise Osc, are being routed through the filter
Leave the Cutoff at 0
Play with the Resonance to get different timbres

Envelopes

We'll only be using Envelope 1
Set the Attack to 100ms
Set the Hold to 30 MS
Play with the release, I liked how it sounded at 500ms

FX

Hyper/Dim

Hyper

Start by setting the Mix to 100% to hear only what the Hyper is doing.
We want this preset to sound massive, so lets up the Unison to 7.
It's up to you on what you set the rate to. I chose to set it to 0 and set up a Macro Knob to change the amount by 50
I decided to bump up the Detune amount to 65
Now dial back the Mix to taste, I went with 35%

Dimension

As for the Dimension, we're going to leave the Size where it's at by default (50%)
Set the Mix to 10% and drag Envelope 1 to Modulate it by 65.
This way the Lead will get wider as the sound opens up

Distortion

Select Sin Fold
Star by dialing back the Drive to 0 and setting the Mix to 100%
Now we can start adding the Drive-in. Any more than 20% with a 100% mix is going to be pretty distorted, so be sure to not have your volume too loud when adjusting 😃
I went with a 10% Drive, then dialed back the mix to 50

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