Native Instruments has announced an update to its wavetable synthesizer for professional, cutting-edge sound design, with flexible routing and extensive modulation.
Version 1.7 of Massive X delivers important fixes and workflow improvements, including full host automation for all parameters, NKS 2 support, locked Animator settings when switching presets, the ability to invert X and Y Morpher pad values, and more.
Rethought, rewired, and reincarnated – MASSIVE X is the successor to an iconic synthesizer that helped spawn entire genres. Get everything you need to create any sound imaginable. Quickly patch complex routings to bring your ideas to life – no matter how far-out they might seem – and take things further than you thought you could with expressive, playable modulation. Think it up, dial it in, and define what the future sounds like.
Changes in Massive X v1.7
- Added: Exposed all parameters to host automation.
- Added: Menu option to invert X and Y Morpher pad values to align with hardware controllers.
- Added: Animator lock, allows locking of animator settings when switching presets.
- Added: Cursor hiding on Mac, except in Apple Hosts.
- Added: Update notification.
- Added: Menu option to enable and disable update notification.
- Removed: Internal automation of Mod Wheel, Pitch Bend and Aftertouch.
- Fixed: A potential crash in logic when modulating macros.
- Fixed: Favourites, User icon and Wavetable submenu selection stealing keyboard focus in Windows.
- Fixed: Text search stealing keyboard focus even after parameters had been changed.
- Fixed: Pitch bend param in automation list didnt’t control pitch bend by default.
- Fixed: Hover states for delay time parameters.
- Fixed: Play page briefly showing on init even when ‘default to edit view’ was enabled.
- Fixed: ‘Load Init Preset’ option caused a switch in page view.
- Fixed: Retrigger on the Play page sent on/off events incorrectly.
- Improved: Cursor re-appearance after changing a control.
- Improved: Animation smoothness by enabling VSync, this can be controlled by the Sync Monitor To Refresh Rate option in the menu.
- Improved: ‘More Expansions’ tab links to Massive X Expansion overview in Native Access.
- known issue: Discrete parameters (e.g. switches, menus, tables) cannot be learned or recorded, but can be drawn in the automation lane in Logic, MainStage and Garageband.
The update is available now via Native Access.
More information: Native Instruments / Massive X
