Xfer Serum - Sound Design Masterclass (Udemy.com)

Learn the essentials of Sound Design in Xfer Xerum and start creating sounds from scratch

Created by: Christopher Klix

Produced in 2019

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What you will learn

  • Xfer Serum
  • Sound Design
  • Wavetable Synth
  • Modulation
  • Understanding ENVs (ADSR Shapes), LFOs, Filter
  • Sound Processing
  • Sound Layering

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

Are you tired of scrolling through preset banks and skipping through random patches to find a sound you like? Well, let me show you how you can create the exact sound you imagine inside Serum. Learn the essentials of Sound Design and you'll be able to amply those new learned knowledge to master pretty much any other synth out there as well. We will cover basic concepts, like ADSR shapes, LFOs and Filter, up to more advanced things, like unison, wavetable morphing and much more.
Also you'll get a sound pack that contains 65 patches for Serum, as well as Custom Noise Samples and Custom Wavetables, for free included in this course.
Sounds good? Well, than hit that 'Buy now' button and let's get started!
Who this course is for:
Beginner Producers - you have no idea what ADSR meansIntermediate Producers - you've tweak some knobs but don't quite get how it worksAdvanced Producers - you've used other synths like Massive and wanna get the hang of Serum as well

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Instructor Details

Christopher Klix

My name is Chris and I am a professional music producer and sound designer leading the company Feeltone Music. We design sounds for producers worldwide to improve their productions and provide a platform to enhance your inspiration.
Being part of a like-minded community is key for a modern music producer. We wanna provide a platform that is specifically designed for that. So that producers can easily connect and collaborate, and once their production is finished share it to an A&R and release their music on digital platforms like Spotify and co. whilst keeping control over their releases and receiving support from our label management.

I have been producing music in different genres reaching from acoustic and alternative to modern pop music and EDM, which obviously doesn't mean that I am actually a great producer, thou ;)
But I can say that I took a lot of courses, in universities as well as online, paid as well as free, and realized that there's quite a great leak of good and most importantly continuous content for learning and mastering music production. As it turns out I quite enjoy teaching other people, so we started creating online courses that try to be better than those that are out there.

And if you're still reading this text, that I wrote in 5min because Udemy won't let me continue unless I do so, I guess you are quite interested in what I wrote so you should probably now buy one of our courses and join our community over on our official webs

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Reviews

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By Samuel on 10/26/2020

Detailed information and explained well for beginners

By Chris Henry on 10/3/2020

Instructor is clear what he will be teaching us. I appreciate him telling us if there are terms he uses right now that are confusing or unknown, we should give it a chance and he will explain more later in the lecture. I have faith in him and am letting go of some moments where I'm confused, anticipating it will be cleared up later.

By Mark Tew on 8/23/2020

Very clear and precise

By Mark Solomons on 8/21/2020

Very informative

By B J on 8/12/2020

This guy kept skipping over the parts he didn't feel like going over and literally said to go check out youtube videos to figure those parts out.

By Dom Ceccoli on 8/11/2020

I'm really dumb, I'm sorry great course so far

By Jane Magnet on 8/3/2020

The course is listed as a "Serum - Sound Design Masterclass" however, what you get is actually very brief and vague. While the beginning of the course feels like you'll be learning a new aspect and then applying that in the next patch, this really only happens around the first and second chord sections. After that, the sound is mostly variants on the same thing.
While the course seems to be encouraging you to follow along with recreating a track, however, the instructor hasn't included the midi information for the tracks. If you want to know the chords and lead midi, you'll need to wait for it to be briefly shown on screen and copy it out.
For a synth that well know for it's wavetables, these are glossed over early on and then largely ignored in favour of using simple wave shapes (saw and square) on each of the patches.
The patches which you make throughout the course are largely light modifications on a single sound (in at least one case you clone a previous sound an only very lightly change it). While I understand the need to explain how slight differences in certain areas can change your sound, this feels a cop-out for a course referring to itself as a masterclass.
There were a couple of lessons that spent most of the run time talking about third party plugins for your DAW. While I understand that post synth processing is an important part of sound design, it felt particularly galling following lessions where whole aspects of Serum itself were skipped over as beyond the scope of the course. A course about sound design in Serum.
There's a whole section of the course where the instructor admits that they used the wrong Xsplit scene to record it, meaning that about 1/4 of the screen is taken up with a fully unnecessary facecam, which blocks parts of the screen the instructor is trying to go over. They admit in captions that this was an issue and their fault, and again in the next recording. It's clear they know they messed up, but couldn't be bothered to rerecord it.

By Keith Cox on 7/22/2020

Very helpful! Learned much.

By Spark Design on 7/8/2020

assuming you haven't missed my review, explaining everything will be good for those getting into production

By Russell Goodwin on 6/26/2020

It's pretty amazing the level of expertise in which the teacher has and also was able to share. I love how he included the Bus Processing section with Ableton. When he first opened the track in Ableton I was like wth ? But he even explained the how, why, and benifits of the Ableton arrangement with quite a bit of production tricks. 5 stars.

By George Cuevas on 6/7/2020

I am finding it a lot easier to understand how this synth works, it is explained really well.

By Jochen Landua on 6/4/2020

In parts, this course is too lengthy and chaotic. But i know every button now and can work with serum at a new level.