Figure VS Serum

Figure

Propellerhead creates world-class software products and services that inspire music makers and provide the foundation for a worldwide creative musical community.

Serum

VST for FL Studio, Ableton Live, and many other VST supported DAWs. Heavily utilized in EDM.

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2023-03-23

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2020-03-04

The dream synthesizer did not seem to exist: a wavetable synthesizer with a truly high-quality sound, visual and creative workflow-oriented interface to make creating and altering sounds fun instead of tedious, and the ability to “go deep” when desired - to create / import / edit / morph wavetables, and manipulate these on playback in real-time.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Figure and Serum)

Figure

Serum

Audio & Music

56 56%

Audio & Music

44% 44

Email Marketing

52 52%

Email Marketing

48% 48

Music

100 100%

Music

0% 0

Work Management

0 0%

Work Management

100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Serum seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 30 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Figure mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Figure yet. Tracking of Figure recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Serum mentions (30)

Complete rookie looking for advice on a MIDI controller for Darksynth
What matters though is choosing a good synthesizer. I personally use Serum (~190$) for most things, since it's easy to use and has a big community with a lot of free and paid presets. Source: 9 months ago
DIY Wavetable Synthesis Sequencer
One of the problems I am currently facing is having a large lookup table. I want to have a large set of predefined sound waves that can be manipulated like programs such as Serum. Is this still possible with an MC instead of an MCU? (Calculating the waves in real-time instead of using a lookup table might be too computationally intensive for most budget options). Source: 10 months ago
SPEECH plugin crashing? No audio!
You'll have to find some other alternative for your Text-to-speech needs. Serum has a basic speech synth, Vital uses Amazon's TTS solution, and you'll find plenty more with a quick google search. Source: about 1 year ago
I'm looking into some cheap synthesizers to make vaporwave/synthwave music
You can also download Vital for wavetable emulation. https://www.discodsp.com/obxd/ You can also buy Serum https://xferrecords.com/products/serum for I think $190 or get it off Splilce for $10 a month until you pay it off. Source: about 1 year ago
Chiptune style remix of Frog on the floor
Then all the synths are serum, in previous projects I have used magical 8 bit and tb_peach. Source: about 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Figure and Serum, you can also consider the following products

keezy - A colorful soundboard. Play with music.

Vital - 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.

SoundGrail - SoundGrail Music App designed for pianists, guitarists, and DJs.

Omnisphere - Piano, pad and synth VST for DAW's.

Aftertouch - Aftertouch – 3D MIDI Controller created and published by Kevin Nelson.

Surge XT - Open-source subtractive-hybrid synthesizer formerly sold commercially as Vember Audio Surge.