Massive X 1.6.1 update (September 2025)!

[spektralisk]

I see this thread resurface from time to time and it’s seems that many users here want to love it but the current feature set and workflow holds them back.

I understand many of gripes about Massive X workflow and features BUT if you’re into sound design, and spend some more time with this synth, you will be rewarded greatly. This thing is nothing short of spectacular! It sounds great and it’s capable of creating the most bizzare, complex, alien sounds I encountered so far during my sound design journey. It can sound beatiful and it can sound very nasty (in a good way) and it works very well in my trailer/cinematic music production. Also, whenever I’m bored or stuck in sound design with other stuff I get back to Massive X and it always brings back the flame, it’s very inspiring.

I’m pretty ok with the workflow. What I would like the most is a support for third party packs in the browser. Poly Performers would be nice to have but not a deal breaker, taking into account what can be done with it already.

I hope NI will keep developing this one because it’s a real gem.

[aMUSEd]

I see this thread resurface from time to time and it’s seems that many users here want to love it but the current feature set and workflow holds them back.

I understand many of gripes about Massive X workflow and features BUT if you’re into sound design and spend some more time with this synth you will be rewarded greatly. This thing is nothing short of spectacular! It sounds great and it’s capable of creating the most bizzare, complex, alien sounds I encountered so far during my sound design journey. It can sound beatiful and it can sound very nasty (in a good way) and it works very well in my trailer/cinematic music production. Also, whenever I’m bored or stuck in sound design with other stuff I get back to Massive X and it always brings back the flame, it’s very inspiring.

I’m pretty ok with the workflow. What I would like the most is a support for third party packs in the browser. Poly Performers would be nice to have but not a deal breaker, taking into account what can be done with it already.

I hope NI will keep developing this one because it’s a real gem.

Couldn’t agree more, for me the 3 key improvements would be to add Poly aftertouch or ideally also MPE, poly performers and user bank authoring

[_leras]

if you’re into sound design and spend some more time with this synth you will be rewarded greatly. This thing is nothing short of spectacular! It sounds great and it’s capable of creating the most bizzare, complex, alien sounds I encountered so far during my sound design journey. It can sound beatiful and it can sound very nasty (in a good way) and it works very well in my trailer/cinematic music production. Also, whenever I’m bored or stuck in sound design with other stuff I get back to Massive X and it always brings back the flame, it’s very inspiring.

It definitely does have that huge alien weird timbre and thing going on. And it all sounds great.

It definitely can take you on a journey into odd sounds.

I sometimes struggle a bit to get what I want on more simple bread and butter sounds - it does have a very clean pristine sound, and seems to lean into harder distortion types. When it works though it's great, and I often get better, if slightly different, sounds than I hoped.

[swilow11]

It just has the most pristine FM sound, and the filter fm just sounds so smooth- unlike Serum or other syths which sort of break up with filter fm, MX has this wide sweet spot and the sound can remain really characterful and coherent even when sweeping cut-off quite liberally. Did that as a source for PM on oscillator 2, alien craft came racing in from distant stars.

[Funky40]

Has somebody a tipp where to look at sound presets ? (commercial)

i´m NOT into EDM !

Sounds like you would do with the new Microwave 1 plugin.
Synthetic sounds. More on the E-Piano side of things for example.

And anyway kind of percussive physical modelling / karplus strong type of stuff.
But Synths, not percussion.

In short:
Anything nice for hand-playing.
Synth-workstation type of sounds.

Tipps ?

[martiu]

hi . . .

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[enCiphered]

After the Komplete 15 release, Massive X still can't map a single parameter to MIDI?

[martiu]

dude this thing sounds amazing

[liquidsound]

It's the only synth I regret no buying when it was super discounted...

[martinjuenke]

ABEFLMOPPRRST

[liquidsound]

ABEFLMOPPRRST

That one is not as good as Massive X

[swilow11]

I don't share much of the criticism toward MX but I just wish the oscillators could be panned independently. The track delay module could do some really nice wide haas stuff if one could pan the bloody oscillators.

[havran]

I hope it's okay to link this deal here:

https://www.lootaudio.com/category/bund ... oid-bundle

[seangm]

I hope it's okay to link this deal here:

https://www.lootaudio.com/category/bund ... oid-bundle

Those presets are for the old Massive, not Massive X. It's a completely different synth, the Massive presets don't work with Massive X.

[havran]

I hope it's okay to link this deal here:

https://www.lootaudio.com/category/bund ... oid-bundle

Those presets are for the old Massive, not Massive X. It's a completely different synth, the Massive presets don't work with Massive X.

Oh! Good point. I completely missed the "X" in the thread's subject line.