Build 10 Essential House Synth Patches in Serum
The organ bass patch that stacks four sine oscillators like drawbars is worth the watch alone. Add a bit-reduced lead, saw stacks, and a one-macro pluck, and you’ve got a Serum session ready for your next track.
▶ 10 House Synth Patches in Serum, Built from Scratch
The video builds 10 house sounds: an organ bass with sine oscillators stacked like drawbars (sub, fifth, octave, octave+fifth), plucks where a single macro controls click, saw stacks, and a bit-reduced lead using the distortion section. All Serum, no extra samples.
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ConjureAlign: Free Phase Alignment, No Clicks(free)
Insert on the distant mic track, route the close-mic reference to the sidechain, capture a loud section, and it measures offset with sub-sample precision — glides into alignment smoothly. Manual trim ±10 ms and polarity flip included. Open-source and free.
Box of Bass: a Free Multi-Amp Bass Rig with Finger/Pick Feel(0)
DI split into clean body, fuzz, distortion, and room channels, all profiled from a 4-amp/12-mic rig. Tone behaves like a bass tone pot, Feel shifts from fingerstyle to pick attack via measured captures, and Width keeps mono compatibility. Free until July 29; Windows installer is unsigned.
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▶ Minimal House Live Set with Flechtwerk and Three Controllers
A performance walkthrough using Flechtwerk’s 24 Plaits-based synth engines mapped to an APC Mini, MidiMix, and MiniLab 3, with Galaxy Tape Echo for delay. It’s more jam than tutorial, but glimpsing the controller assignments and routing might spark a different live setup.
| ▼ #15 | HotLap — I See U (Original Mix) ▼ 4 · 7d · ▶ hear |
| ▲ #09 | Nick Curly — Bahia (Original Mix) ▲ 4 · 7d · ▶ hear |
| ▼ #88 | Ben Kyps — Euphoric (Original Mix) ▼ 71 · 1d · ▶ hear |
| ▼ #84 | Banana Groovz, Jackie, Akeem Raphael — Channeling (feat. Akeem Raphael) (Original Mix) ▼ 61 · 1d · ▶ hear |
| ▲ #16 | Tonend, Junky Jam — Frisson Doux (Original Mix) ▲ 80 · 7d · ▶ hear |
- artist: Armand Van Helden — Boston DJ/producer who built a career on one-idea tracks that hit like a freight train. Stripped Tori Amos’s alt-rock original to a skeleton and built a dancefloor weapon around it.
- sample: “It’s got to be big” vocal — Snipped from the bridge of the original, pitched up roughly +4 semitones, and looped into a 4-bar mantra. Van Helden likely used an Akai S950 for the timestretch and pitch.
- synth: Roland TR-909 — Kick on every beat, clap on 2 and 4, open hi-hat on offbeat eighths. The bassline is a simple sine‑sub playing root notes, sidechained hard to the kick so it breathes.
🔮 Producer Horoscope (for fun) — Your high-pass filter is so steep the kick's fundamental just asked for visitation rights.
Get the bass sitting right — then move on.
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