Update: NI Massive - added Apple Silicon support

[Frank]

Run Native Access

 

[abacab]

Well the 3 4 Mac users around here should be pleased! ?

Edited October 19, 2022 by abacab

[Starship Krupa]

So much for speculation about the incipient demise of Massive. If they were going to set it adrift, I doubt they'd go to the trouble of porting it to Apple Silicon.

As of right now, I'm still sorting out where Massive fits in my collection of synths. It's too iconic and well-supported by tutorials and presets not to take it seriously, but I still like Hybrid 3 better. @abacab's advice to use the genre browser in Komplete Kontrol was good. I discovered quite a few usable pads/soundscapes in the Expansions. Not so much in the original factory presets, which tend toward turn-of-the-century Car Alarm Trance.

First-world problem I'm running into: the humongous amount of free presets available for Massive. I've downloaded thousands. After the years of my favorite synth being Hybrid, with far fewer free presets available (although I find the factory set more useful than Massive's), I'm like a kid in a free candy store.

Since I find a large amount of my inspiration in timbres, I browse the presets in search of that, but with this number of presets, it's days of doing that, and then I find yet another source of them. It occurs to me that for someone just getting into working with DAW's, the amount of freeware plug-ins must feel like that.

I'm keeping good freebie hygiene, though: if I can't find a good sound in the package, it gets deleted ASAP.

[abacab]

27 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

So much for speculation about the incipient demise of Massive. If they were going to set it adrift, I doubt they'd go to the trouble of porting it to Apple Silicon.

NI, now just make the GUI resizable please!

[Starship Krupa]

24 minutes ago, abacab said:

make the GUI resizable please!

That tends to be an issue with the decade-old VSTi's I like. All of the AIR stuff is now, with my 1920x1280 23" displays, at about the limit of what I'd consider legibility. Massive at least has those nice big knobs.

[Last Call]

14 hours ago, Frank said:

Run Native Access

 

Just tested this "free" synth, amazing sound lots of great sounds and lots of variety. Only 200 MB? Uff, nice.

[abacab]

7 hours ago, Last Call said:

Just tested this "free" synth

Thanks to the Plug-in Collective! ?

[Last Call]

Just now, abacab said:

Thanks to the Plug-in Collective! ?

You got me! ?

[Fleer]

8 hours ago, Last Call said:

Just tested this "free" synth, amazing sound lots of great sounds and lots of variety. Only 200 MB? Uff, nice.

If I’m not mistaken that freebie was the original Massive? 

[abacab]

25 minutes ago, Fleer said:

If I’m not mistaken that freebie was the original Massive? 

Correct, for the original Massive! As is the recent update for Apple Silicon compatibility.

Edited October 20, 2022 by abacab