Native Instruments Massive X Synth - Sequel to Massive (Out Now!)
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- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
Is it just me or does the GUI look like Molekular?
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Gear & Setup: Windows 10, Dual Xeon, 32GB RAM, Cubase 10.5/9.5, NI Komplete Audio 6, NI Maschine, NI Jam, NI Kontakt
Gear & Setup: Windows 10, Dual Xeon, 32GB RAM, Cubase 10.5/9.5, NI Komplete Audio 6, NI Maschine, NI Jam, NI Kontakt
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- KVRAF
- 35436 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Dubstep, Trance... i'm not too familiar with other EDM genres, but, i think all those Future... Tech... whatever genres also had a big use of Massive for their sounds. As far as i know, Massive and Sylenth1 are sort of the "dream duo" for many productions in those genres.
As i mentioned, i never was a big fan of Massive. IMO, it IS overrated, but, the same could be said for Sylenth1. Even though i definitely rate Sylenth1 higher than Massive. I think Massive X will be a big improvement whatsoever.
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- KVRian
- 1226 posts since 26 Feb, 2016
It looks like a Native Instruments plugin.....
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- KVRian
- 969 posts since 5 Sep, 2014 from Heaven
The 3 dark horizontal bands on the UI have a lot of knobs and stuff on them, but they are such a contrast with the white/beige sections that it doesn't look cluttered. I think the UI is really clever. It crams in heaps of functions & modulation without looking messy.
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- KVRist
- 361 posts since 6 Feb, 2017
the love for Sylenth1, Massive & Serum is nothing rational, many synth sound better, have more capabilities, are nicer or more efficients but those synth are the most iconic legends, what makes a legend is neither rational nor mastered.
Massive X will be a big improvement but i bet it will never become a legends, just a good modern synth like ana2, icarus, pigments, dune 3, falcon..
NI does not mean anything for today producer, we have grow up with this compagnies, they didn't, in our time NI was the genesis of electronic music, today NI is a groovebox & keyboard sellers.
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- KVRAF
- 3368 posts since 2 Oct, 2004
Dubstep = Massive
Brostep = FM8
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- KVRAF
- 3368 posts since 2 Oct, 2004
I think Trance is more on the JP8K, Access Virus and Sylenth1 side of things. Massive isn’t hifi or punchy sounding enough for trance. Maybe it’s good for techno and acid.chk071 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:01 pmDubstep, Trance... i'm not too familiar with other EDM genres, but, i think all those Future... Tech... whatever genres also had a big use of Massive for their sounds. As far as i know, Massive and Sylenth1 are sort of the "dream duo" for many productions in those genres.
As i mentioned, i never was a big fan of Massive. IMO, it IS overrated, but, the same could be said for Sylenth1. Even though i definitely rate Sylenth1 higher than Massive. I think Massive X will be a big improvement whatsoever.
I think Massive is a very mediocre synth. It’s only successful because of the massive marketing behemoth that is NI. And the fact that sound libraries for it are cheap and numerous.
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- KVRist
- 361 posts since 6 Feb, 2017
FM8 was heavily used by many famous brostep producer but the father of brostep is Massive. (Massive was not even released before brostep)
btw Massive on his own can produce dub/brostep, FM8 is better to get the inital grawl but then you have to use a external filter to wooble.
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- KVRAF
- 23102 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
You are quite wrong there.
Not really. Marketing alone didn't put Massive on any sort of pedestal so that it became that highly regarded. Users did.
In any case, I would say that Leap into the void shows very well what Massive can do, while absolutely not sounding "thing" or "mediocre".
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- 1959 posts since 21 Sep, 2007 from The Infinite Void
There literally was a sub-genre called Ladystep that emerged shortly after. It was generally more trancey, less angry and had more female vocals.
But we know how upset feminists get about gender stereotypes!