Axel Boy

Serum 2 - Drum Convolver Resynthesizer 🥁

Added 2025-12-17 17:28:40 +0000 UTC

Patrons!

Here’s a Serum 2 Drum Convolve Resynthesizer patch I’ve been having a lot of fun with lately.

This is built off Au5’s original Serum 2 Convolver Resynthesizer preset — massive shout-out to him for discovering this technique . I thought it was super sick, so I decided to build on it, level it up, and make it more performance-friendly to share with you all.

I refined the routing, added 8 macros for quick control over transients, decay, pitch, reverb, and rhythm generation, and optimised it for kicks, snares, and hi-hat rolls.

At its core, this preset uses Serum 2’s Convolve effect to resynthesize drum samples, letting you reshape the transient, decay, pitch, and rhythm of a sound independently of the original sample.

Macro Overview:

Dispersion – Adds extra transients and zap-style texture
Shorten – Tightens the drum by reducing convolver decay
Reverb – Blends in space and depth
Pitch – Changes convolver size, shifting the perceived pitch/weight
Rhythm 1–4 – Adds rhythmic gating/roll patterns (especially great on hats & snares)

This makes it possible to turn simple one-shots into playable, animated drum instruments with tons of movement.

Attached, you can find the patch as well as a PDF on how to use!

Hope you enjoy experimenting with this one!

Thanks for the continued support ❤️

Axel