Ballad Colors - Serum Synth Presets
Ballad Colors contains 101 Xfer Serum Presets that engrave a ballad-like sound design path. They fit for many genres like hip-hop, trip-hop and melodic loops-based music (they are perfect for that lo-fi trippy melodic lines) as well as ballad-based songs or some chill and electronic music styles.
 
Here you can find some soft harp-like synths, some mildly saturated keys, some nylon guitar synths, synth bells, experimental electric piano presets and other. The lo-fi element is present in some of the patches. I really like the use of Flanger to create some saturated and out of this world soundscapes. Be careful with the use of flanger as it may increase the intensity of the sound abruptly – using a limiter in the channel is highly recommended. To some other sound the saturation derives from other sources like the filter type, ring modulation or other modulation methods. You could add more lo-fi character with the Lofi Chorus macro, which gradually adds a nice reformation of the final sound.
 
The other macros are assigned to Reverb, Delay and Hyper effect device.
 
Presets were designed with Serum v1.351 and run better with this or newer edition
 
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