Massive X

It may be great, however I would give Native Instruments ZERO stars for the tiny notice of Massive X being AVX dependent. And what is AVX anyway? Try finding out if your CPU is AVX or not or to find any information on upgrade CPU with AVX suitable for your computer. The great workhorse MAC Pro 2009-2013, the only module built MAC up til comming fall, does not have AVX. I guess many people are pissed by Native almost hiding the limit information of Massive X. Just before Massive X was released Native started a marketing campain for upgrading Komplete. The new Massive was one of the most focused selling points in the campain. You really need to look hard to find any information on the AVX limit. I know techonolgy moves ahead and sooner or later there will come a product that your old computer cannot handle, I do however question Natives marketing moral and I also question how the Native standing is the MAC Pro community these days.

Rumdrum.

Thanks for the heads up, that's good info.

I have one of those old Mac Pro's, actually mine is even older, 2008 (just collecting dust). However I have a 2011 iMac core i5 and it supports AVX. The iMac was a hold over until they released another tower, but the new Mac Pro's are too expensive. I can see how people would be upset, then again those are pretty old.

I've added that criticism to my "bad points" list.

Get used to it, AVX is going to become the norm. The latest DUNE update requires it, too, and others will follow.

Nope. Dune 3 (and previous Dunes) runs ok on non AVX CPUs. I may run better with AVX but it does not depend on AVX to run. Same as a couple more instruments. They run on both AVX and non AVX CPUs. Massive X is, as far as I know, the first to run ONLY on AVX. I do not mind Native developing products for the future, and I see that at a given time old computeres will not be able to run new products. I am totally fine with that. What I however think is not very good customer service is not to give proper information during a heavy upgrade marketing campain where MX was one of the selling points. It is right that there is a sentence there telling it requires AVX, but who knows really the impact of that sentence? And if you have stumbled accross the term before and bought or downloaded anything that had AVX in the specs, your experience would be that is does in fact run, giving the term AVX no further worry. Native is using their mail database for the campain and it would be of almost no effort to send out a kind of warning to the huge community of MAC Pro users that MX will not run on their computer, or at least add the word "Only" in the AVX sentence. As it was a lot of people feel fooled. Native is, with the sentence they added to the specs "lawfully protected", but as for customer service it is way under acceptance.