In fact, on initial boot up, you might think Massive X is a completely different synth. Massive is still for sale, and there’s no cross-compatibility between the two. MainĪnd ‘successor’ is just how Native Instruments is pitching Massive X, although slightly confusingly, the two will coexist alongside one another, at least for the foreseeable. This year alone has seen some incredible releases and I’ve reviewed some stunning synths from Arturia (Pigments), Audiaire (Zone) and Softube (Parallels) that have refined the very way you interact with your software, so the successor to Massive, on test here, is long overdue.
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However, 12 years is a long time in anyone’s books – let alone software – and Massive has been overtaken in certain areas by other titles. It’s been as influential as any other synth before or since, so much so that you’ll still find it – alongside those previous synths I mentioned – as main recommendations across many dance forums. Its then-slick three oscillator wavetable engine and ground-breaking modulation features helped it to massively (sorry) contribute to various dance sub genres, even arguably helping to invent a few along the way. When it was released over a dozen years ago, NI’s Massive shook up the market in a way that even the Berlin developer couldn’t have predicted. Soft synths have had a good couple of decades to bed in and at least half a dozen – including Serum, Sylenth, Diva and Native Instruments’ original Massive – have been as influential as the hardware that preceded them. Surely, you might say, this relatively young instrument category can’t be up there with the likes of the Odyssey, the 303 or the Jupiter? Yes, it can.
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