Serum is a very capable synth but for some reason I never liked its sound. I have the demo installed for more that a year, but whenever I try to program it I come up with sterile and lifeless sounds and the factory presets are no different to my ears. I have Massive, which has some kind of gritty digital character which I think is really lovely unlike Serum. Massive is one of my most used synths aside from Virus. I guess, Serum is just not for me.
Hive is IMO is a failed attempt to copy Sylenth. It does nothing Sylenth can't do, but Sylenth sounds much better overall.
In fact right now I don't have access to my main studio and have to toy around with a notebook and a bunch of plugins. Spire, Sylenth and Dune2 in combination with some processing plugins (PSP Mixsaturator and Mixpressor, Izotope Alloy, Valhalla Vintage Verb) do fine job for most sounds I need.
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