“It has a huge warm sound to it, and the load knob really helps to push the tone. “Only extremely high velocities open the filter, completely letting the high frequencies come through.”įilters: “I’m a sucker for the Blue Monark filter,” says ARC. “For instance, if you use a negative exponential curve ramping up – attached to velocity and assigned to filter cutoff – you can make an instrument which is mostly dampened,” he says. Tracker modulations can be assigned to any parameter, so you’re really performing instead of just pressing a button.
The reason this makes MASSIVE X more musical, says Carlo, is because you can map an expressive performance to the sound. You can edit them in fine detail, draw in Bezier curves, and quantize the lines to a predefined grid, which opens up new sonic territory.” “These allow you to scale incoming MIDI signal data like velocity or note before assigning to a parameter. Improved Tracker modules: “The enhanced tracker modules (originally KTR FLT and OSC) create new opportunities for expressiveness,” says Carlo. Torsten: This synth can sound like a beautiful, cold, digital FM-ish synth, or like pure, warm analog poly. It feels like there are so many different places you can take a sound. There’s a huge sweet spot with all of it, too, which makes programming patches really fun. Scroll to the end of the article to hear the entire range of MASSIVE X audio demos.įirst, what does it sound like, especially to the ears of sound designers who have their choice of loads of gear and plug-ins?ĪRC: The sound is great! To my ears it sounds like a hybrid modular kit, clearly digital but with an organic and rich sound you don’t normally get with soft synths. Speaking to sound designers Torsten Fassbender, Alex Cummings (ARC Noise), Carlo De Gregorio, John Valasis, and Richard Devine, we find out more behind this year’s most anticipated release. In the latest installment of the MASSIVE X Lab series, we talk to the expert sound designers pushing this new instrument to its limit, to tell us about the noises they’re making – and how deep this rabbit hole goes.
It’s that search for sounds you want, and best of all, the sounds you haven’t heard before. In the end, a synth is more than just a list of specifications.
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