Sound design puzzles!

I've got serum vst2 and vst3 installed but still not loading or working when i open the project files

This is so great Val, TYSM!!!

This is really awesome! Going through lvl 1. It would have been nice if it don't show the sound name in the track - so part of the challenge would have been figuring that out, e.g. this is an 808, this is a Reese-kind sound, this is an fm-ed square... You already inspired other Patreons to issue their own puzzles which looks like a beginning of a good sound design learning trend... so big big up to yourself!

this is super ingenious. what a great way to learn sound design! my only recommendation would be to do this with mp3 renders, text files, and serum preset files. import the renders for audio reference, have a text file for the hints, and serum presets available to check each step if needed. might be a bit more to organize file-wise, but it’d enable any DAW user to engage in the lessons. anyway, thanks again for always providing educational and fun content! 🙂

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thank you so much for these! Hella stoked to give them a try

can you add wav files of what they are supposed to sound like? for some reason serum in vst3 isn't loading for any of them

As a learning producer, this is straight GOLD. Anything else you can come up with like this is a godsend! Keep it up! P.s. *a version for phaseplant would be AMAZING* <3

These are sick

just got around to actually doing this. i'm learning! actually impressed with myself that i figured some out. BUT the real question is, that sine pluck, do i recognize that from a tipper track!? edit:hmm ok maybe not tipper but i know that little riff

all of the serum files are missing in mine ;-;

thank you so much for teaching us how to get to the levels we want to achieve, much love <3

Holy shit. This is like, literally the best way for me to learn. I love you

sick

The true test of someone's knowledge is how easily they can break down complex subjects like this into easy-to-understand ideas and this is about as straight forward of a lesson as it can possibly be. Bravo!

Ok, I feel dumb. What am I supposed to do? I don't get it. What the aim of the game? I only glanced at level 1 quick, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Recreate the sounds?

def make moreeeee this is a cool way to learn

amazing!!! thank you

😍 dude youre the best!

thank you!! maybe it's a problem with my installation, but ableton isn't able to load serum for me because it thinks it's missing, so i'm not able to synthesize any of the sounds you made D: i have both the 64 and 32 bit version in my vstplugins folder. ableton only recognizes the x64 one though, so did you happen to use the 32 bit version? or maybe it's looking for serum in a different folder on my computer?

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I have not even tried them yet but please make more

can we have a phase plant version

This is the coolest thing ever, thanks so much 🤘

out of curiosity, do you have intentions of releasing the pre ideas, and we can send back our ideas and see what you think in general? seems like much but it just seems like it'd be cool for interaction! :)

omg, this is such a sick concept! thanks a lot! will go through all of them now and learn new stuff :)

So cool thank you Val!

Will the next puzzles contain more complex sound design?

Always helping us learn and grow, thank you VR!

This is SO fun and useful. Thanks a ton Val! 🙏🏼🩵

This is such a unique and cool idea!!!

Is it possible to get these as stems? For FL users 🫣🥲

FACTORIO MENTIONED!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A FULLY SARURATED IRON BELT????

I love this, this is gonna be really helpful, thanks!!! 😁

This is such a sick concept, I hope you do more stuff like this!

Thank you so much!!!!