Serum
Universal version latest seen at v1.368 · Reported by 5 Macs in the community.
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Serum is a wavetable synthesizer plugin by Xfer Records, widely used in electronic music production. It runs as an AAX plugin inside Avid Pro Tools and other compatible hosts, offering two clean wavetable oscillators, subtractive synthesis controls, a large effects chain, modulation tools (envelopes, LFOs), and thousands of presets. Serum is popular with producers of EDM, hip-hop, ambient and experimental music for its sound quality, intuitive visual workflow, and deep sound-design capabilities. A native Apple Silicon build has been confirmed running on Macs in the Rosetta Check community.
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1 suggestionSerum's native Apple Silicon build is available from Xfer Records, and you should update to it immediately. Visit xferrecords.com, log in to your account, and download the latest Serum installer — it will be a Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon. The installer package includes the native AAX version of the plugin. After installation, the native Serum plugin will be recognized by Pro Tools (which itself must be on a current native build, version 2023.6 or later, for the native plugin to load). Once installed, your existing Serum presets, settings and Pro Tools sessions will work without any manual migration. You should see noticeably lower CPU usage and smoother performance during synthesis and sound design compared to running the old Intel version under Rosetta.
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