On a home PC, Serum can be quite heavy depending on the presets.
In the article I rewrote yesterday, I tried various free Serum presets, but with some presets, the CPU load became 100% with Serum alone.
As expected, this makes it impossible to do anything else.
Therefore, we will introduce the main parameters that cause the CPU load to increase.
Explains the parameters that can efficiently reduce the load of Serum
The CPU load is really biased depending on the preset.
The effect on the sound differs depending on the preset, so I think it's a good idea to adjust the parameters to make a trade-off between the CPU load and the sound.
Reduce Unison
First of all, when Serum's CPU load is high, the first thing everyone sees is "Unison".
For example, the unison is 19 for both oscillators as shown below.
With such a value, the CPU load will exceed 100% on my PC.
First, drop this "Unison".
To drop it, simply drag and drop "Unison".
Reduce POLY (polyphony)
Although it is related to "Unison", set "POLY" of "VOICING" at the bottom right to the number of notes used in the chord.
This works well with longer releases.
Please watch the video below.
The effect of sound depends on the plyset, but I don't think it's that big.
(Because you can put it back when rendering)
Set OverSampleing to 1x (Draft)
This affects the sound quite a bit, so I think it's limited to the stage before mixing.
For the setting method, select "1. (DRAFT)" in "OSCILLATOR SETTINGS" of "GLOBAL".
Core i7-4770K It decreased by about 3.5% in the environment of 5GHz.
Make with a similar tone
I will make it with a tone similar to the last resort.
For example,Echo Sound WorksFree Serum presetsUnison"CHORD – Power Blow" recorded in is quite CPU-intensive.
In the environment of Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz, it is 5% over just by playing a 100-note chord.
Even with the CPU load reduction measures already mentioned, it only drops to about 40%.
(If you check it, it will be heavy if there are many modulation settings, but it will not be lighter with Bypass)
Please watch the video below.
I made a similar tone and played it.
(The CPU load was about 25% in the above environment, and it dropped to 17% when the CPU load reduction measures were taken.)
In the video below, the "CHORD – Power Blow" preset is rendered because it exceeds 100% CPU load.
Isn't this all right at the time of production?
In particular, if you copy the rhythm of a tone that has a rhythm set in the LFO, the atmosphere will be quite similar, so I think there is no problem during production.
The LFO can save and load patterns.
I wrote it in the following article, so please read it.
I prepared a video for the time being.
(LFO has already been saved)
UnisonLet's try to make it similar by using "CHORD – Roland" recorded in.
Summary
How is it?
I think it will be decent.
There is a way to turn off the effect, but I don't recommend it because the tone changes too much even though it doesn't go down that much.
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