Owners of the Maschine Jam controller can also make use of the bass synth’s glide mode from the hardware, which allows for the creation of 303-style acid lines. The popular beat-making software already has a drum synth that can be used to create everything from dusty kicks to razor-sharp hi-hats, but the new synth will give users a new option for crafting basslines.Īccording to NI, the new plug-in allows you to morph between sine, saw and square waves “and all spots in between” or choose from presets that give you ready-made sub-bass and acid patches. Native Instruments has added a monophonic bass synth plug-in to its Maschine software as part of a free update. Here’s where the underlying Reaktor framework really shows its strengths.A simple new synth for NI’s popular beat-making tool. This means that Massive X should be capable of almost any kind of frequency and phase modulation that one could imagine. You can make click-and-drag connections between the different modules, sending audio pretty much anywhere. Massive goes modularĮverything is tied together with what NI says is “one of the most flexible audio routing systems ever seen in a synth”. By offering standard waveforms, these insert OSCs can form the basis for more traditional subtractive synthesis, or all sorts of phase modulation experiments. This means that you could potentially have three more oscillators in addition to the two main wavetable OSCs. Its three slots can be filled with audio effects or – and this is where it gets interesting – insert oscillators including sine, pulse and saw waveshapes.

Like the original Massive, Massive X features an insert FX section. In addition to standard low-, band-, and high-pass filters, the section includes a comb filter and dual filters in several configurations. As we’ve come to expect from Massive, the filters seem to be very flexible. The filter section contains eight new filters, each of which offers several modes. There are over 100 different noises to choose from, including natural soundscapes. The sound generation stage also includes a noise section with two simultaneous noise sources. They come with another set of wavetables specifically for phase modulation. Furthermore, there are two phase modulation oscillators whose job it is to modulate the main OSCs. These oscillators can operate in 10 different modes, suggesting that you’ll be able to do pretty much anything you like to a wavetable. Massive X features two wavetable oscillators and will come with around 125 wavetables “at launch”, which sounds like that number may later be expanded upon. It’s a completely new synth and the presets will not be compatible with the old Massive. We already knew that it’s not a replacement for the original Massive, but rather meant to coexist with it. Native Instruments’ latest blog post gives an overview of the new software synthesizer, which is part of Komplete 12.

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