Native Instruments Massive X Synthesizer Virtual Instrument

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Rethought, rewired, and reincarnated, Native Instruments MASSIVE X is the next-generation flagship synthesizer and the successor to the original Massive virtual instrument. Designed for fast and fluid operation, you can create any sound imaginable with ease. Quickly patch complex routings, and take things further than you thought you could with expressive, playable modulation.

Massive X boasts dual wavetable oscillators with over 170 wavetables and 10 different ways to read them, while the updated routing matrix provides a sleek graphical interface that s simple to understand and implement. An upgraded Performer section allows you to draw precise patterns of modulation and assign them to parameters for complex, evolving patches, or for controlled changes to your sound. Additionally, you can use the Remote Octave control to trigger them on your keyboard, which provides a truly playable modulation and huge expressive variety within a single patch. Massive X works with Mac and Windows and is compatible with DAWs utilizing VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plug-in formats.

Oscillators and Noise Modules

• Dual wavetable oscillators form the core of MASSIVE X s sound. Choose from over 170 wavetables and 10 different oscillator modes each with their own submodes. These determine how each wavetable is read, with unique controls to shape the resulting sound, which can be modulated of course. Dial in two additional phase-modulation oscillators, assign them to the primary oscillators to introduce movement, or even use an external sound source to do the same.
• Two noise modules with sources ranging from synthesized sounds to rain, choirs, voices, and machines, make MASSIVE X a powerful engine for textures and left-field sound design.

Shaping Your Sounds

Filters Sculpt your sound in different ways with all-new filters including the acid-perfect Asimov, aggressive and distorted Creak, formant and flange-style Groian, series and parallel dual filters, a comb filter, and more. Each filter type has its own submodes, and all controls are included in the flexible modulation framework

Insert FX MASSIVE X s Insert FX can be patched anywhere along the signal chain for polyphonic signal processing in series, parallel, or any way you can imagine. The FX can insert up to three extra sine, saw, or pulse-wave oscillators, for sub bass or traditional subtractive synthesis, as well as a ring modulator, sample and hold, or phase-modulation oscillator.

Stereo FX While Insert FX can be used for creative routing and sound sculpting when building your patch, the Stereo FX in MASSIVE X are ideal for finishing your sound. You ll find the usual suspects such as reverb, flanger, delay, and chorus, as well as an amp and speaker simulator, and more. Choose whether to use them in series, parallel, or in a mix of both via the routing section.

Unison Voicing

Introduce real musicality to your patch with the Unison section. This is a powerful tool for generating voice variation in both mono and polyphonic modes, and can produce everything from minute tonal and phase deviations that you might hear when a choir or group of instruments plays the same melody, to chords and scales using the harmonizer, or a cross between the two. If you want to get really in-depth, it s even possible to play melodic and chord sequences of up to eight bars by modulating the performers.

Routing

Route, reroute, and feed back audio with absolute freedom. Any output can be connected to any input, and there are even modulation inserts, which can be routed within a section, such as treating an envelope as an audio source and using it to excite the comb filter. In MASSIVE X, there s no need to choose or compromise when setting up your patch.

Massive Modulation

Performers and Remote Octave The three Performers let you draw up to eight bars of modulation, then drag and drop to any parameter for shifting and evolving patches. They can run independently or reset each time a note is played. The Remote Octave lets you trigger them with a control octave on your keyboard meaning, you can essentially play modulation in real time. With up to three different patterns per note of the octave, there s an almost endless amount of evolution and expression to be had especially when combined with other modulation sources.

Envelopes and LFOs From the subtle to the supersonic, the nine slots for LFO and envelope modulation in MASSIVE X are there to get it done. Switcher LFOs change shape, and can be modulated themselves to change over time. There s also a Random LFO, Exciter Envelope, and Modulation Envelopes with in-depth shaping, hold, and behavior controls. Tune each of them down to the finest detail for careful sound design, or route them in different ways and make them modulate each other for seriously experimental sounds and unexpected results.

Tracker Trackers let you modulate per note you play and how you play it. Draw curves with higher notes for subtle modulation such as opening the filter or decreasing reverb in the low-end, or create extreme key-by-key modulation changes for completely different sounds within a melody.

VR Mod The Voice Randomizer adds randomized modulation to any source. Simple but effective, it can be used in the same way as any other modulator with any parameter. It s a great tool for analog-style sounds to emulate drifting in the oscillators, filter, and pitch, as well as for more extreme chance variation when cranked up.

Macro Controls

Get hands-on with any parameter using 16 macro controls, pitch bend, mod wheel, and aftertouch controls. Assign them wherever you need to shape your sound when playing live or recording. They act as a bridge between MASSIVE X and your DAW s automation.