Free Serum Alternatives

The best free alternative to Serum is Vital, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Serum and nine of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Serum are Surge Synthesizer, Dexed, Helm and ZynAddSubFX.

Serum

Paid • Proprietary
Digital Audio Workstation

Serum VST is a Wavetable Synthesizer, which pre-installed or imported Wavetables can be used to create synthesized sounds.

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Vital
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Freemium • Open Source
Music Production App
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6 Vital alternatives
Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer with drag'n'drop modulation workflow and animated preview of the synth's inner workings where needed. Comes with many modulation sources (including audio-rate), MPE support and FX chain.
- - Vital is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Serum.
- - Vital is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Serum.
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Vital Features
Synthesizer
Spectral Morphing
Wavetable editor
MIDI Keyboard Input
Voice synthesis
Spectral Warping
ARM support
Support for Audio Units Plugins
Comments about Vital as a Alternative to Serum
Almost everyone thinks Vital is a great Serum alternative.
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Ui, sound posibilities, effects, just everything really
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3 oscillators (2 in serum wasn't enough for me personally), free version contains full functionality, tons of tutorials in YouTube
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Surge Synthesizer
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Free • Open Source
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BSD
36 Surge Synthesizer alternatives
Surge is an open source digital synthesizer originally written and sold as a commercial product by @kurasu (Claes Johanson) at Vember Audio. The synth uses subtractive hybrid synthesis and each patch contains two 'scenes' which are separate instances of the entire...
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Surge Synthesizer Features
1. Virtual InstrumentSurge Synthesizer uses mainy virtual instruments (piano, guitar, drums, bass, etc.).
Synthesizer
Opinions about Surge Synthesizer as a Alternative to Serum
Almost everyone thinks Surge Synthesizer is a great Serum alternative.
Dexed
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Free • Open Source
Music Production App
Mac
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Linux
iPhone
iPad
16 Dexed alternatives
Dexed is an FM-type softsynth developed by Pascal Gauthier of Digital Suburban. It is an ideal application for importing, playing and editing/managing sysex patches from both the classic Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and the TX7.
- - Dexed is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Serum.
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Synthesizer
Helm
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Free • Open Source
Music Production App
Mac
Windows
Linux
16 Helm alternatives
Helm is a free, cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system. Helm runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program or LV2/VST/VST3/AU plugin.
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Helm Features
MIDI Keyboard Input
Sound Effects
Synthesizer
ZynAddSubFX
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Freemium • Open Source
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28 ZynAddSubFX alternatives
ZynAddSubFX is a fully featured open source software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
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ZynAddSubFX Features
Synthesizer
Growl integration
Sound Effects
Comments about ZynAddSubFX as a Alternative to Serum
Most users think ZynAddSubFX is a great Serum alternative.
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It has so many options and you can make your creativity fly even if you are not a pro at producing
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Odin 2
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
Flathub
22 Odin 2 alternatives
Odin 2, the successor of Odin 1, is a gratis, open-source, cross-platform, semi-modular subtractive-style software synthesizer. It covers about every type of synthesis out there.
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Odin 2 Features
1. Virtual InstrumentOdin 2 uses mainy virtual instruments (piano, guitar, drums, bass, etc.).
Synthesizer
Synth1
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
14 Synth1 alternatives
Synth1 is a software synthesizer modeled on the Clavia Nord Lead 2 Red Synth. It combines the common sound synthesis method of Subtractive & FM synthesis.
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Synth1 Features
Synthesizer
Tunefish 4
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
14 Tunefish 4 alternatives
A virtual analog synthesizer, Tunefish v4 was developed as a smaller replacement of Tunefish v3 with roughly the same power - some might argue it's even more powerful. It was also ported over to Linux and MacOS and was given a new polished UI.
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Tunefish 4 Features
Synthesizer
padthv1
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Free • Open Source
Linux
BSD
19 padthv1 alternatives
An old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer.
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