When it comes to sound design for electronic music, there are few tools more useful and versatile than Serum. Released in 2014, Serum simply changed the game of VST synthesizers. And today, years later, everyone is STILL using it. Why? Because Serum is designed to be used with comprehensive preset packs - the tastes and styles of the presets have changed, but the synth that runs them has remained the same.
Sound design is arguably the most important part of your unique sound as a producer. Sound design makes you sound like, well, YOU. Here at Hyperbits HQ, we strongly fight against the narrative that “real producers” build their sounds from scratch. The truth is, very few producers actually do that. Why is this so crucial? Let’s be honest, all of us can’t be the best sound designer in the world. Fortunately, the people who are the best sound designers in the world often make their presets available to us. What great producers do is find high-quality source material (like a preset), and modify it to their needs. My message to you is this: stop doing sound design from scratch!
Discovering the Best Free Serum Preset Packs
In this article, we've scoured the web to find some of the best free Serum preset packs available. Now, let's get to those presets.
1. EchoSoundWorks Unison
What You Get: This free grab packs a punch across many different genres.
Why You Need It: Serum gets some flack for sounding a little too digital. I simply don’t believe that’s true if you’re using the right presets. EchoSoundWorks Unison is designed to bring analog life into a digital synth. Making house, lo-fi, techno, or synthwave? If you’re looking at a modern, fresh take on the ever-popular old-school vibe, this is a must-have.
2. Cymatics Free Serum Starter Pack
What You Get: 100 presets and 50 wavetables custom-built for grizzled and aggressive sound designs.
Why You Need It: Cymatics is a name all over the world of music production. And their free Serum starter pack doesn’t disappoint. Getting unique sequences, patterns and wubz can be one of the most time consuming parts of creating modern bass music.
3. Hyperbits Free Preset Pack
What You Get: Dozens of atmospheres, noises, wavetables, leads, basses, and chords that are sonically proven to move a dancefloor.
Why You Need It: Here at Hyperbits HQ, we hand crafted this preset pack with one goal in mind: to make the best free preset pack on the internet. We’ve made this pack from our instructor’s own tracks and have bona fide proof that these presets sound great in top-tier productions. This pack is the perfect blend of patches that suit any modern genre perfectly. They are ideal for anyone wanting a modern sound with little or no additional processing.
4. Surge Sounds Future Bass Demo Pack
What You Get: Surge Sounds Future Bass pack is actually a paid preset pack, but they offer a high-quality demo pack for free.
Why You Need It: With Future Bass being one of the most popular genres of electronic music right now, it’s extremely valuable to have a set of sounds specific to the genre. It’s no secret that future bass is the most oversaturated genre in the game right now, which means that your sounds absolutely must stand out from the competition.
5. r/SerumPresets
What You Get: To a degree, you get everything. r/SerumPresets isn’t actually a preset pack itself, but rather a forum dedicated to Serum Presets of all kinds.
Why You Need It: This is also an AWESOME place to post questions you have about Serum for other users to help you with. Even if you don’t find anything at first glance that piques your interest, it’s included on this list because it should at least be on your radar.
6. 7Skies Serum Wavetables
What You Get: 7Skies is one of the most knowledgeable producers and sound designers in the game right now and actually hosts a massive arsenal of production resources completely for free on his site.
Why You Need It: Serum is a wavetable synthesizer, meaning three-dimensional wavetables are used to produce sound, not two-dimensional waveforms like in other synths. 7Skies Serum Wavetables is a wavetable pack - you can use these wavetables to get cool, unique sounds, but you can still customize the other parameters to your needs. 7Skies made his name in the trance and progressive scene, and similar producers will clearly find the most usage out of his patches.
7. 264 Multi-Genre Patches
What You Get: Over 260 multi-genre patches that are fully mapped and ready to use in your music. These patches run the gamut of leads, chords, pads, basses, and FXs.
Why You Need It: 264 is no joke, and it is the perfect amount to complement and build up any library.
8. Gravitas Create Catalyst
What You Get: 164 patches all designed by some pretty dope names including Mr. Bill, Mindex, Orenda, Secret Recipe, Templo, and more.
Why You Need It: Gravitas Create Catalyst offers a huge number of presets that were all designed by accomplished producers. This pack offers an exceptional variety of modern synth tones - this pack will be a useful tool for a producer in any genre.
9. VIPER Tech House Pack
What You Get: A grab bag of basses, stabs, plucks, sequences, drums, and more. But that’s not all, as you get a handful of super interesting wavetables and resampled noise shots taken from hardware synths.
Why You Need It: Tech House has absolutely exploded as a genre over the last few years. And let’s be honest, a lot of the genre’s appeal is in its cool, glitchy sounds. VIPER is a compact but effective collection of 17 presets and 19 wavetables to get you started in the genre.
10. BVKER Techno Presets
Why You Need It: Our good friend BVKER is back with another solid preset pack, this time targeted towards techno producers. These presets, and accompanying samples are handcrafted to take your listener on a journey.
11. 90s Keys & Pads
What You Get: 25 lush keys and pads that positively drip with the nostalgia of my childhood in the ’90s.
Why You Need It: You’ll find some sort of piano or keyboard in almost any genre of music. Serum is exciting in that we can expand beyond our typical piano sounds into a whole new world of keyboard tones. Vaporwave, Dreamawve, and chillwave are the first that come to mind but I’m sure LoFi producers and beatmakers would love these too.
12. Gum Road Serum Lo-fi Vol. 5
Why You Need It: Gum Road actually offers tons of free preset packs: Lo-Fi Vol. 5 is our favorite of the bunch. Once again, this pack showcases Serum’s versatility as a tool that can make sounds that range from the modern cutting edge to the retro and classic.
13. Bantana Future Vibes
What You Get: 50 presets that include chords, leads, basses, plucks, and more. All these presets are rich and lush and fit perfectly into one of the most popular genres out there right now.
Why You Need It: Once again, this preset pack is a hotbed of great sounds for future bass producers. Inspired by the likes of Marshmello, San Holo, and Mura Masa, Bantana Future Vibes is all about analog leads, warm pads, and huge basses.
14. WA Productions Mega Pack
What You Get: This Mega pack has everything a producer could need: samples, MIDI clips, and 60 Serum presets. Looking to build out your production library beyond just Serum presets?
Why You Need It: Because this stacked pack has not a little bit, but a LOT of everything producers love most. It’s got presets, MIDI files, and samples so that you can immediately start using them (even if you’re just starting out with production). Bass house and progressive genres are what I usually attribute WA Productions too, but to be honest I’m sure every producer will find some value in it.
15. Lionshare Sound Sunrise Trance
Why You Need It: Trance and sunrises go together like peanut butter and jelly. If you want those uplifting, Baeleric, sunrise vibes, look no further than Lionshare Sound Sunrise Trance.
Exploring Other Notable Mentions and Resources
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TONAL: I just found these guys and they’re crushing it in the deep house world!
Installing Your New Serum Presets
Great! You’ve downloaded a few packs. Now what? Time to get them up and running in Serum, which is pretty simple.
Step 1: Locate Your Serum Presets Folder
Move the presets into your Serum Presets folder. For Mac users, the folder is located at: Macintosh HD//Library/Audio/Presets/Xfer Records/Serum Presets/Presets/User.
How To Install Serum Presets [For Mac OS]
Beyond Presets: Building a Complete Sound Library
A full library of presets is a great foundation to create music. But remember, presets are only one part of the puzzle: you need great samples, MIDI, FX, and a bank of knowledge to aid you in making great music.
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"I got this pack a few days ago and have had nothing but a great time with it. So many great sounds, everything is super warm and usable right out the gate. I’ve also been using this pack to learn more about Serum in general and how to manipulate the synth." - Anthony S. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass Serum & Massive)
"Melodic and Fresh. Knockout, fresh melodic sounds. Great loops (dry & wet), MIDI, Cthulu presets and Serum presets." - Peter C. (Verified Buyer Review for HOLOI)
"I produce a lot of genres ranging from House, to Dubstep, to Trap. I recently got into Future Bass because of this pack. It is the best pack I have ever bought across all genres! The value is insane and the quality is top notch. I definitely recommend it to everyone. I love it!" - Austin W. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"A great collection of sounds, really inspiring to use and worth every penny." - Ben C. (Verified Buyer Review for Friends)
"Awesome sauce you can dip your ears in! Beautiful sounds in this pack! Didn’t even have much interest in making future bass until I bought this pack. I got mainly because the sale price and number of presets it came with we’re a great deal, love it because the sounds are the shiznit, and are definitely suitable for all sorts of other styles which I like because I like to play them all." - Caleb P. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Great sounds… As usual… Bringing the best platinum sounding presets to the game… You guys are the best…" - Daniel B. (Verified Buyer Review for Maj Lazer II)
"Professional Sounds! I simply love the innovation of this team, whatever they bring out is always of special quality and useful for me as film composer." - Anselme P. (Verified Buyer Review for Porter llenium)
"Great presets. Pack had some awesome presets." - Eric E. (Verified Buyer Review for Melodic Dubstep)
"Diverse range. This pack contains a lot of polysynth presets. They’re ideal for today’s music. Interesting timbres on some and others are lush and thick reducing the number of tracks needed." - matthew c. (Verified Buyer Review for Porter llenium)
"I am lucky to find this packed item at a good timing. I was planning to extend the serum preset. I am lucky to be able to find this packed item just at that timing. I could extend the presets of other plugins reasonably well." - hiroshi k. (Verified Buyer Review for The SKY)
"Love the new Future Bass Serum presets! I love this pack! You can tell a lot of work went into the pack. Especially the Sequenced stuff. You get that awesome Future Bass movement right off the bat with those Sequence files… Def grab this one!!" - jason g. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Love this pack! Amazing vibes, definitely recommended getting!!" - Matthew L. (Verified Buyer Review for Slushy)
"Great Pack and a Pleasure to work with! Not often that I review packs but this has everything I needed. Presets and samples that were of the genre as stated." - Andy (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass Ultimate Pack)
"Great all around pack! All the sounds in this pack are beautifully put together and worth it within themselves. The bonus samples on top of it make it almost a steal. 5 stars hands down." - Calen F. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Excellent. I use cthulhu and this was excellent for that piece of software." - brett s. (Verified Buyer Review for Maj Lazer II)
"Awesome pack! Downloaded this pack and was up all night the first night. The quality of sounds is amazing and midi chords can be really engaging for beginners. Must have pack!!!!" - Troy H. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Awesome value! Great Sounds and really beneficial Cthulhu PreSets! Worth it!" - Carter M. (Verified Buyer Review for Maj Lazer II)
"Nice and Slushy way of sounds and a must for those that are doing such music. I give it five stars." - Peter Q. (Verified Buyer Review for Slushy)
"As always, a great pack. Love the price point on these, able to constantly get fresh inspiration." - Luke M. (Verified Buyer Review for Indie Future Bass)
"Great mix of Samples and Presets! There are more samples and presets than you could possible use in a lifetime in this pack." - David G. (Verified Buyer Review for Porter llenium)
"Fantastic presets! I’ve been having a lot of fun with these. Very good for future bass vibes and big chords. Love it!" - Brandon M. (Verified Buyer Review for Indie Future Bass)
"Bangin! This release is awesome, every patch sounds fantastic and really well constructed. Already using it in my published productions." - jason c. (Verified Buyer Review for Porter llenium)
"Love every preset, especially the plucks which sound great, especially with their cutoff adjusted." - Siddharth C. (Verified Buyer Review for Porter llenium)
"Dope. The presets are flawless. Got this months ago and still loving it! I took my EP to the next level with this and got it signed." - Ralph B. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass 4)
"Amazing!! This is the best sounding pack for Tropical House beats in my opinion." - Karina M. (Verified Buyer Review for Tropical House for Serum)
"Great. having great fun with these presets. Totally worth it." - terry l. (Verified Buyer Review for Future House Serum & Massive)
"Amazing product! Great sounds! Good variety of sounds! Organized well and very creative! A must have pack!!" - Darren S. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass 4)
"Great sounds! Awesome settings, I liked to work with it." - Adam F. (Verified Buyer Review for MAJ Lazer)
"Awesome sounds! great pack, love it. sounds are great, samples are premium." - Nathan P. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass Serum & Massive)
"What I was looking for!! This pack is perfect, exactly what I needed!!" - Aaron H. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Great presets! Have been enjoying the presets from this pack! Worth every bit of money !" - Paul C. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass Ultimate Pack)
"Xcellent! Great pack indeed…. Nice bace, pluck and various mixture of preset sounds!" - Cory H. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Amazing stuff ! Exactly what I was looking for. High quality audio." - Jheynner F. (Verified Buyer Review for Indie Future Bass)
"Good stuff. There are plenty of top-notch sounds to use in this pack. Well done." - Brad D. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass Serum & Massive)
"Very helpful and Inspiring! This was just the thing I needed to get the creative juices flowing." - Kenny (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Nice Presets Pack! There’s so many presets that sounds dope. I’ve been tweaking some. Best value for the money." - Gede P. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Hux. A great mix of contemporary sounds for the genre, lots of great macros in massive for changing it up." - Matt H. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass 4)
"Future Bass…A must. Plenty of great presets for both Serum and Massive. Anyone who follows today’s sound should have the right tools." - Roger O. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Dope! Surge sounds makes my favorite serum presets and they haven’t disappointed this time around. A huge bargain for the price." - Timothy C. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
"Amazing sounds! They are very good compared to other presets that you can find." - Charlie M. (Verified Buyer Review for Future House 2)
"High quality patches. Sounds are stunning..already made something great with them." - Dean W. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass 4)
"BEST. Best Sounds for any kind of Bass music! Love them!" - Lewis A. (Verified Buyer Review for Deep House)
"Just what I wanted! The fact that the drums were given as midi files was, and is the best. Wish more packs did the same!" - Robert D. (Verified Buyer Review for Future Bass for Serum)
What's Inside 2hollis Starter Pack?
| Starter Version | Starter Version Plus | $Core Version | Starter Version Plus Plus | $$$Deluxe Version | |
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| Serum Presets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Serum 2 Presets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ableton Sessions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Construction Kits | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Can I use Serum presets in Serum 2?
Absolutely! Serum presets work perfectly with Serum 2. The new version is created to work with the original version, so they'll load up perfectly. Serum 2 comes with improvements like better visual feedback and new effects.