FABLED SERUM
Thank you for purchasing the Fabled Serum Soundset. May your adventure begin.
ABBREVIATIONS
CYM Cymbal
D&B - Drums and Bass
DK - Drum Kit Piece
FX - Effect
GTR - Guitar
MAL - Mallet
PD Pad
PERC - Percussion
PL - Pluck
SHKR - Shaker
SQ Sequence
STR - Strings
SY - Synth
TRANS - Transition
WW Woodwind
SPECIAL ABBREVIATIONS
CRS Has course tonal modulation that may not play well with sounds that do not.
DOT Has a dotted rhythm
UNI In some cases patches with unison are marked as such
EDITTING & BYPASSING SEQUENCES
Though not always the case, tonal sequences generally use the 4th LFO. To edit them set the grid size to
16. Each gridline is a semitone. The note being played will be the middle line and you then have 8
gridlines up and down you can sequence from there.
In the Mod Matrix I have generally placed the Mast. Tune modulation on Mod Source 16 which is the
last modulation slot at the time I am writing this, but there will likely be more in the future. To bypass
the sequencing simply change the asterisk (*) to bypass.
On patches labeled CRS there is an additional course tonal modulation that gives those instruments a
somewhat exotic sound, but they may not play well with other instruments that do not have that same
modulation. Generally Ive tried to place the course modulations just before the Mast. Tune modulation
in the Mod Matrix to make them easy to find and bypass if desired.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Please be careful toggling off effects. I would suggest you do this at low volume until you are familiar
with the presets. Toggling off an effect may lead to a much louder sound. And of course its a good idea
to always have a limiter on the master channel in your DAW.
Non sequenced patches such as one shot drum kit pieces, plucks, and synths tend to be velocity
sensitive. Sequenced patches generally are not velocity sensitive.
Patches are generally first optimized at middle C and then if necessary shifted up or down octaves to get
the most playable range out of them.
Drum sequences have temp synced envelopes. At lower BPM they will sound bigger and at higher BPM
they will sound tighter/snappier. For reference, the demo track is 150 BPM.
The two drum kit hihats (DK HH) were designed to play well with hihat MIDI that comes with
instruments like Addictive Drums.
The CHARACTER macro on many of the presets generally just controls the filter mix though you can add
additional modulations to this to suit your songs.
Feedback is welcome. Let me know what you like, dont like; what youd like to see in future in
soundsets.
Ive also included a copy of Blissamba, a mandala I made some years back that was the visual inspiration
for this soundest.
Explore and Play,
Greg Houston
[email protected]
Fabled Audio 2014
