KVR Audio

rubez · Post by **rubez** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:18 pm

The original one, not X.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:19 pm

Raddler1 · Post by **Raddler1** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:22 pm

Lazarus451 · Post by **Lazarus451** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:24 pm

No, sounds great. It's about wokflow and gui, not about sounds.

Lbdunequest · Post by **Lbdunequest** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:25 pm

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:29 pm

X

Yes

Azbest · Post by **Azbest** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:34 pm

It does have a somewhat distinctive sound. Is it dated? Maybe, dunno, don't care. Massive X is much better IMO so I don't use the old one anymore.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm

Yes, by default its intrinsically incapable of any sounds which might be attributed to a date later than 2014.

The only way round that, is if you manually overclock its internal sample rate, which you can only do by running the secret preset 'MassiveDLC_01' that unlocks this (allegedly this leaked from NI at the start of April just after lockdown started, so obviously something suss going on there with the 5G, know what I mean! Do your own research.)
Anyway, by doing so, you can definitely get sounds from 2015 through to 2018. Rumours that there's a second secret preset which allows sounds from 2019 thru to mid 2020 are as yet unsubstantiated.

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:46 pm

it's all subjective. for me, it sounded dated years ago.... but that doesn't mean anything (except to me)

rubez · Post by **rubez** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:52 pm

Dated in a good way or a bad way?

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:06 pm

rubez wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:52 pm Dated in a good way or a bad way?

what would be the 'good' way?...

noodln · Post by **noodln** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:09 pm

I wouldn't have imagined that the synth itself would end up with a dated sound, just the presets. Interesting note about the internal sample rate. I imagine newer synths will eventually have to allow low sample rates in order to sound retro, if they don't already do this!

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:09 pm

fisherKing wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:46 pm it's all subjective. for me, it sounded dated years ago.... but that doesn't mean anything (except to me)

But Massive sounds more fresh; I never really liked how dated Massive sounded though so I replaced it with Massive.

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:11 pm

VitaminD wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:09 pm
fisherKing wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:46 pm it's all subjective. for me, it sounded dated years ago.... but that doesn't mean anything (except to me)
But Massive sounds more fresh; I never really liked how dated Massive sounded though so I replaced it with Massive.

no no no

you're not gonna let this go are you...

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:23 pm

fisherKing wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:11 pm
VitaminD wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:09 pm
fisherKing wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:46 pm it's all subjective. for me, it sounded dated years ago.... but that doesn't mean anything (except to me)
But Massive sounds more fresh; I never really liked how dated Massive sounded though so I replaced it with Massive.
no no no you're not gonna let this go are you...

Only on ridiculous subjective comparison threads. People are using Moogs, Rolands, and the like from the 60s, 70s, and 80s today in modern music. It's not like the synthesizer is stuck with the sounds used in years past. It's a synthesizer, you can come up with all kinds of sounds and are not stuck with whatever was invented on them 40 years ago.

Plus, even those 'old' sounds can get used in 'new' ways today.

Does Massive sound dated?