Native Instruments Massive X Synth - Sequel to Massive (Out Now!)

[EvilDragon]

Which was Q1 2011... so 8 years ago

[digidennis]

Good to know - It won't be for me then.
My i7 930 is still running fine and adequate for most things - Not going to buy a new PC for this.
Think I will get Hive instead..

[EvilDragon]

Hey, Hive is awesome. It doesn't do many things MX can but doesn't matter, it's extremely fast to get great sounds from.

[Aliens]

Which was Q1 2011... so 8 years ago

Just adding it to the infosphere for those, like me, who had no idea if my chip supported it or when I built my pc.
Luckily, google says my 2600k does.

[parma]

I'm really glad I checked out this thread as I was going to purchase the Komplete 12U upgrade mostly for Massive X but my 2012 Mac Pro Westmeres don't support AVX. I know 7 years is an eternity in computing but damn if this doesn't suck anyway. I get by just fine with the machine otherwise. Damn.

Well, glad I saw this before I purchased as that would have been an unpleasant surprise come end of June.

[EvilDragon]

I wonder if you could plop in a better CPU in that board that has AVX, tho... Should be possible since that's from the times where Macs were actually upgradeable by users.

EDIT: Apparently not.

[parma]

it's not too big of a deal - I would've probably been lucky to get one instance of MX anyway on my machine

[pixel85]

So I can't run it on my Commodore64? And I just got K12 update just for MX

[Functional]

I prolly wouldn't have bought it full price, but, i'll happily take it in Komplete 12. All i'm hoping is that performance isn't too bad. For a "EDM synth" like Massive, CPU consumption always is a thing. That's also partly while Sylenth1 is still so popular, IMO. Because you can have a lot of instances in your track.

Whether or not it will be my thing, sonically, i'll see. Super-8 was nice, for example, but, not quite my cup of tea either. So was Massive 1.

Original massive was one of the most CPU-efficient things I've come to known out of these modernish EDM-synths and pretty on par with Sylenth1 tbh. But yeah, I doubt we will see that because modern synths use a lot of non-linear DSP (to emulate "analog sound") which often makes your CPU cry. Filters are pretty notable example where it's really commonplace now.

Either way, I'm having huge hopes for Massive X especially if one can use those IFX oscillators to modulate parameters, it might become my go-to synth in such case

[EvilDragon]

Well no, Massive was quite a CPU hog back when it was released, especially in HQ mode.

[Functional]

Well no, Massive was quite a CPU hog back when it was released, especially in HQ mode.

I mean, my Phenom X6 1155t (or w/e was its name, the top-of-the-line 6 core CPU) handled it rather well unless I literally cranked up voices to 64

Never did any proper testing about it though. Obviously now I have 4790k and I do not miss the times of that Phenom CPU like, at all

[DJ Warmonger]

Phenom X6 1155t

That's the model from 2010, while Massive is from 2007. 6 cores back then was unheard of o.O

[ghettosynth]

Phenom X6 1155t

That's the model from 2010, while Massive is from 2007. 6 cores back then was unheard of o.O

Yep! 2007 was the year of the second gen Core 2. Just like now though, most people had older machines at the time. I bet Massive will chew up my old athlon xp (dual cpu with silver paint to fake the mp chip) machine!

[chk071]

Massive is still hardcore on my machine, for such a old plugin.

[Functional]

Phenom X6 1155t

That's the model from 2010, while Massive is from 2007. 6 cores back then was unheard of o.O

That thing would barely run anything sadly but regardless I see your point