Serum Toolkit 3 $29

A year in the making, the third in sound designer Francis Preve’s knock-out series (10/10, cm233; 9/10, cm248) of preset packs for Xfer’s Serum synth is his most ambitious yet. Each of Toolkit 3’s 100 patches includes one or two original wavetables, and a further 70 processed guitar and percussion samples are used in the Noise generator. Perhaps the star, though, is the XFORM Macro, which morphs every preset between two distinct ‘states’. Classy, clever and stuffed with readily adaptable basses, leads, pads, FX, plucks, percussion and chords. xferrecords.com

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