Massive X 1.6.1 update (September 2025)!

[AudioAlien]

Nice and much needed update.

[LoveEnigma18]

And so, I ended up buying only the Drive Expansion (at least for now, will only think of others during year end sale). I was just scanning the Massive X library presets and those from Expansions Rush and Scene, which I got earlier, and there's a lot of awesome sounds already available. Although I feel it lacks good bread and butter presets in pads and leads department (quantity wise).

Man, I love how Massive X sounds. My only annoyance is the GUI issues specific to Intel graphics.

As a side note, undo and redo is a must! I hope they consider it for the 1.4 update.

Thanks for the report! I was eyeballing all the Massive X presets but holding back with purchasing. Not really impressed by the demos, but still interested. With all the massive x sounds so far, i think I share your sentiment.. There are awesome sounds but few are really good for everyday projects.

You're welcome. I understand your reluctance, but I can say confidently that if you don't have Massive X yet (either single or part of Komplete 12), I would highly recommend you to jump on this deal if you like how it sounds. If you have Massive, that will be just $99 crossgrade for you. As for Expansions, I personally liked Drive, Scene and Rush from the 6 released so far. I think these 3 Expansions along with factory library presets are plenty (1000+) and cover a lot of ground.

That said, I hope they do add more simple sounds for everyday usage. Perhaps an Expansion dedicated for such presets (e.g. 25 presets in 6 categories). I will try to mention this to their support too.

[LoveEnigma18]

... I mean any sounds that can be used in a generic way instead of just glitchy, experimental, random stuff that will just stay unused.

This.

And so, I ended up buying only the Drive Expansion (at least for now, will only think of others during year end sale). I was just scanning the Massive X library presets and those from Expansions Rush and Scene, which I got earlier, and there's a lot of awesome sounds already available. Although I feel it lacks good bread and butter presets in pads and leads department (quantity wise).

Man, I love how Massive X sounds. My only annoyance is the GUI issues specific to Intel graphics.

As a side note, undo and redo is a must! I hope they consider it for the 1.4 update.

Drive has some really, really great sounds. Finally listened to all of them. Mechanix and Moebius also have some fabulous sounds I could see using. The three were definitely worth $33 or whatever it was I paid after the e-voucher.

Thanks. I think we all concur that Drive is the best of the 3 from maximum usability point of view. I agree that $33 is an absolutely fantastic price, but for now, happy with Drive.

[wltchris101]

NI gives out e-vouchers for certain stuff. So I got one for buying a Komplete Kontrol keyboard. Think I got one when I bought Komplete, etc. I had 3 that were worth $25 each.

Ah. OK, thanks rezoneight. I thought you weren't allowed to use their e-vouchers for special offers, so that confused me. I guess they must've made an exception for this offer then?

[aMUSEd]

... I mean any sounds that can be used in a generic way instead of just glitchy, experimental, random stuff that will just stay unused.

This.

And so, I ended up buying only the Drive Expansion (at least for now, will only think of others during year end sale). I was just scanning the Massive X library presets and those from Expansions Rush and Scene, which I got earlier, and there's a lot of awesome sounds already available. Although I feel it lacks good bread and butter presets in pads and leads department (quantity wise).

Man, I love how Massive X sounds. My only annoyance is the GUI issues specific to Intel graphics.

As a side note, undo and redo is a must! I hope they consider it for the 1.4 update.

Drive has some really, really great sounds. Finally listened to all of them. Mechanix and Moebius also have some fabulous sounds I could see using. The three were definitely worth $33 or whatever it was I paid after the e-voucher.

Thanks. I think we all concur that Drive is the best of the 3 from maximum usability point of view. I agree that $33 is an absolutely fantastic price, but for now, happy with Drive.

I prefer Scene personally

[aMUSEd]

Massive X 1.3.1 - 2020-08-20

CHANGED User presets are now saved in a dedicated 'Presets' subfolder in the user content directory

Oh hoo raah! Only waited a year for that!! lol

It's not what you might think it is - just means presets are separated from things like user noise tables - doesn't add any organisation still

!!! You're joking!

I wish I was - NI are really shooting themselves in the foot over this - they create such a wonderful sound design wet dream then make it a pain in the ass to share and sell user created banks due to the inability to save anything with a bank name or even tags or provide any organisation to the user tab. Possibly they think people should only buy their own content but that would be dumb - the key to the sustainable success of any plugin is creating an active community of users and sound designers generating and sharing music and presets - not just passive consumers of content.

That being said it is worth persevering with - the more people using it and putting pressure on NI to open up the User section the better - my fear would be people losing interest and NI deciding it isn’t worth developing further.

[Vortifex]

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[rezoneight]

NI gives out e-vouchers for certain stuff. So I got one for buying a Komplete Kontrol keyboard. Think I got one when I bought Komplete, etc. I had 3 that were worth $25 each.

Ah. OK, thanks rezoneight. I thought you weren't allowed to use their e-vouchers for special offers, so that confused me. I guess they must've made an exception for this offer then?

Yeah thats what I thought as well but figured i'd give it a shot and it worked. Was able to get two of the first 3 expansions for about $5 each. Not sure what the rules are. I know they don't allow them during the big sales. Tried that at one point.

[LoveEnigma18]

I prefer Scene personally

Yeah, I was talking about Drive being the best from the latest three.
From previous 3, I agree, Scene is the best, followed by Rush.

[LoveEnigma18]

NI gives out e-vouchers for certain stuff. So I got one for buying a Komplete Kontrol keyboard. Think I got one when I bought Komplete, etc. I had 3 that were worth $25 each.

Ah. OK, thanks rezoneight. I thought you weren't allowed to use their e-vouchers for special offers, so that confused me. I guess they must've made an exception for this offer then?

Yeah thats what I thought as well but figured i'd give it a shot and it worked. Was able to get two of the first 3 expansions for about $5 each. Not sure what the rules are. I know they don't allow them during the big sales. Tried that at one point.

Surprisingly, the e-voucher is working on the Expansion bundle this time around as well as the crossgrade offer from Massive to Massive X + Expansions. But only this crossgrade; it is still not working on any other updates/upgrades/crossgrades right now, as usual.

Typically, e-voucher does not work on crossgrades, and I think last time (IIRC) it did not work on the Expansion bundle too.

[LoveEnigma18]

I am tempted by the offer for the 3 new preset collections but hesitant in case half of them are unusable.

It is likely, because I favourited only under 50 presets out of 150 from the previous two Expansions. Others might get used only in "trial and error / happy accidents" cases.

If you like two of the three A LOT, it's simple - go for the bundle. If not, just get one for $29. Save $29 for later.

I personally think there won't be another set of Massive X Expansions until at least December (considering they did the first set in April and 4 months later in August, the second set). My guess is the next drop will be in Jan/Feb 2021 after the year end gifts.

[rezoneight]

I am tempted by the offer for the 3 new preset collections but hesitant in case half of them are unusable.

It is likely, because I favourited only under 50 presets out of 150 from the previous two Expansions. Others might get used only in "trial and error / happy accidents" cases.

If you like two of the three A LOT, it's simple - go for the bundle. If not, just get one for $29. Save $29 for later.

I personally think there won't be another set of Massive X Expansions until at least December (considering they did the first set in April and 4 months later in August, the second set). My guess is the next drop will be in Jan/Feb 2021 after the year end gifts.

I always look at preset packs as part useable sounds and part just learning how an instrument works. Even with the "unusable" sounds there is something to be gained.

[pdxindy]

Massive X 1.3.1 - 2020-08-20

CHANGED User presets are now saved in a dedicated 'Presets' subfolder in the user content directory

Oh hoo raah! Only waited a year for that!! lol

It's not what you might think it is - just means presets are separated from things like user noise tables - doesn't add any organisation still

!!! You're joking!

I wish I was - NI are really shooting themselves in the foot over this - they create such a wonderful sound design wet dream then make it a pain in the ass to share and sell user created banks due to the inability to save anything with a bank name or even tags or provide any organisation to the user tab. Possibly they think people should only buy their own content but that would be dumb - the key to the sustainable success of any plugin is creating an active community of users and sound designers generating and sharing music and presets - not just passive consumers of content.

That being said it is worth persevering with - the more people using it and putting pressure on NI to open up the User section the better - my fear would be people losing interest and NI deciding it isn’t worth developing further.

Its not like I can organize their purchased sound sets either. Even as a passive consumer of their content, their browser is like the worst in recent memory.

For me it is not worth persevering with. The only reason I haven't sold it is because I got it as part of Komplete. The development pace is so slow that it would be at least a decade before it addressed some of the many unacceptable limitations. I doubt they ever will, so it is just in the junk pile for me. NI has forgotten how to make a complete plugin (pun intended)

[recursive one]

I downloaded some free presets over here and put them into user content/presets directory. Now each time I load Massive X it scans all these presets which takes about 2 minutes.

Is there any way to scan them one time so that MX would remember them and never scan again? It kinda sucks to wait 2 minutes each time i want to use MX.

Did anyone have this issue, or is it only me? I tried to rescan the whole preset folder but nothing changed, it still scans each preset in the user content library each time i load it into a DAW.

[LoveEnigma18]

I am tempted by the offer for the 3 new preset collections but hesitant in case half of them are unusable.

It is likely, because I favourited only under 50 presets out of 150 from the previous two Expansions. Others might get used only in "trial and error / happy accidents" cases.

If you like two of the three A LOT, it's simple - go for the bundle. If not, just get one for $29. Save $29 for later.

I personally think there won't be another set of Massive X Expansions until at least December (considering they did the first set in April and 4 months later in August, the second set). My guess is the next drop will be in Jan/Feb 2021 after the year end gifts.

I always look at preset packs as part useable sounds and part just learning how an instrument works. Even with the "unusable" sounds there is something to be gained.

Agree, should have mentioned that.