Serum in P Tools 10

[WernerF]

Anyone having problems with Serum freezing after going through 15 or so presets? It happens fairly regularly. Love the sound of this VI but man is this part of it glitchy. I'm using Pro Tools 10 HD.

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by WernerF

Anyone having problems with Serum freezing after going through 15 or so presets? It happens fairly regularly. Love the sound of this VI but man is this part of it glitchy. I'm using Pro Tools 10 HD.

Did you report it on the Xfer Records Forum? Steve Duda is real good about getting back on trouble issues reported on the Serum forum there. I'd suggest you do that.

[WernerF]

Thanks for the suggestion. Will do.

[Stereo Missile]

If it's any help I found Serum pretty heavy on CPU in protools 10, but it works much much better in protools 12. Great sounding synth, really amazing. :)

[WernerF]

Originally Posted by Stereo Missile

If it's any help I found Serum pretty heavy on CPU in protools 10, but it works much much better in protools 12. Great sounding synth, really amazing. :)

Thanks and yah, it's heavy on the CPU but still not terrible. Looks like one of the few reasons to actually get 12.

[WernerF]

Just tested the CPU usage and found that it's quite dependant on the patch that is being used. Most of them are usable but the occasional one maxes things out and then things go south.

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by WernerF

Just tested the CPU usage and found that it's quite dependant on the patch that is being used. Most of them are usable but the occasional one maxes things out and then things go south.

Yes, it all depends on the underlying waveform being imported for the patch. Obviously some have way more info than others, so yes, it does vary patch to patch. What I do, and suggest to anyone using Serum, is once you've got the patch you want, export to audio (a snap with offline bounce, BTW), and then make the instrument track with Serum inactive and hide it (in case you want to re-tweak later). I find that things can get clogged in CPU with more than about 2 or 3 instances of Serum going at once. Exporting to audio frees everything up.