I don’t think it’s been abandoned. There’s a difference between what they did with Absynth and what they’re doing with Massive X. They’ve just stopped developing it. It’s not really that uncommon.abstractdolphin wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:28 pmI understand why from NI's perspective it makes sense to abandon it.
Bolded for emphasis. I think you are probably right about that. I mentioned this on another group and someone suggested Falcon instead. Sure, Falcon is great, but if you don’t hear the difference, what can I say? As you said, though, a lot of synths sound great today, and are a lot less of a mess to use. I think I get worked up about it because I feel like it’s that genius child who could really do anything but instead hangs out and smokes a lot of pot all day. I see the solutions to every single issue that’s been brought up. I don’t know what it takes to do something like support polyphonic aftertouch, but I do design UI for software, so I know that world, and I see the solutions. A lot of them are pretty obvious.Serum has become an industry standard. Ableton's wavetable synth is pretty good. Vital is free and very flexible. Pigments pairs wavetable synths with several other engines. I think Massive X sounds better than all of those but I don't think most agree or care as much. It would take so much work to bring MX up to the same standard as its competitors they probably don't regard it as worth the effort (same with Guitar Rig). Maybe when the well runs dry on selling sample backs they'll reconsider (and I do think that will happen eventually).
I know it’s probably a lost cause. Zebra 3 is on the horizon, and will probably trounce everything. I’ve been critical of their oscillator controls for a long time too, and maybe we’ll see improvements there and Massive X will become just another one of the plugins that came with a bundle that I never use.
