![]() The most notable deficiency it corrected was to finally offer (months after initial release) a complete user manual. Just a few short days before this review needed to be finalized for web posting, NI released version 1.1 of Massive X. Owners of Komplete 12 and Komplete 12 Ultimate may download Massive X for free. Massive X is also included in Komplete 12. Massive X lists for $199 USD and an upgrade for Massive owners is $149 USD, but Native Instruments has decent sales from time to time. ![]() ![]() A 32-bit-compatible version is not available. Massive X runs as a hosted plug-in in all 64-bit mainstream DAWs on PC or Mac. It expands upon a number of features found in Massive, adds some exciting new ones, but, in a few areas, delivers a bit less than the predecessor. Massive X is not backward compatible it cannot run Massive presets. But it’s far more than an upgrade of the old synth. Massive X adopts that capability and picks up a number of others. ![]() The WT capability was not the only attractive or ground-breaking feature of Massive, but it was a defining one. In any case, Massive was first released in 2007 and has been doing modern-type wavetable synthesis since way before the WT obsession began (u-he’s Zebra 2 is the other WT synth that comes to mind that’s been around about as long). Early instruments designated as wavetable synths had only one waveform, but today “wavetable” inevitably means that multiple, morph-able waveforms are on offer. Note that the term “wavetable” has come to imply a capability to use an array of single cycle waveforms that can be seamlessly morphed through using manual or automated modulation. New wavetable implementations were popping up all over the place. Wavetable synths were all the rage about three years ago. Massive X has some big virtual shoes to fill. Although I don’t know what virtual synth has had the greatest number of third-party sound sets created for it, if I had to bet money, I’d pick Massive without much deliberation. In this article, we will take a close-up look at Massive X, the successor to and namesake of one of the most widely used virtual synths ever. We take a close-up look to see if it’s worthy of the name. Massive X is the long-anticipated successor to Massive, one of the most widely used virtual synths of all time. ![]()
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