Massive X vs Zebra 3

[whassup]

Watching...

Bad Gear - Massive X

Cool Video, as always.
MX sounds really good in this Video.
Almost as good as... or I rather don't do that.

[pdxindy]

I haven’t had Massive X installed for quite a few years now and didn’t ever use it that much when I did. It just seemed too niche for me.

I love Zebra 3 though, and find it way more satisfying to tweak and shape.

For me, these discussions take place within a context of having so much great synthesis that I can afford to be picky. Massive X doesn't make the cut. Not that it isn't an excellent synth, but because it has enough limitations/dead-ends that even when I had it installed, I turned elsewhere.

Zebra 3 on the other hand, has quickly become my most used synth. I like doing sound design and it's fun to play around and find happy accidents, but the most important thing for me is being able to go from point A to point B efficiently and reliably. I've spent so much time over the years tweaking a sound to have the timbre I want, and then trying to make it pleasing over a 2-4 octave range, to fall off how I want over time and of course to fit into a given composition.

Zebra 3 is the most effective synth I've used at directly controlling these fundamental aspects of a sound. First, I can draw the waveform I want, including by frequency. Second, the Spectral Decay Osc Effect is brilliant. I can control how a sound falls off over time by frequency. Third, an MSEG can be used as the Amp Env. And because the MSEG's can morph between curves it is easy to draw an amp env curve for the low notes and a different curve for the high notes and morph between them via key-tracking. So direct and immediate.

Most of my sounds are relatively simple... for me, it's in these basics of sound design that Zebra 3 sets a new standard.

[Dalle]

Saw a comment saying Massive X has an ”overall rubber tube timbre” and somehow that makes perfect sense to me.

[trusampler]

i like them both.. whats cool is you can get one, then get the other. not everything in life has to be either or. sometimes you really might want both flavors, and that's ok.

[digitalboytn]

i like them both.. whats cool is you can get one, then get the other. not everything in life has to be either or. sometimes you really might want both flavors, and that's ok.

THIS