Massive is Massive

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:21 am

Just starting to dig in to this wonderful piece of software. Anyone else feeling it for bass design?

moosed · Post by **moosed** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:40 am

its good, but it uses up alot of cpu on even the most simple of patches...and thats whilst using the top end macbook pro with 2gb ram !!!

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:00 am

moosed wrote:its good, but it uses up alot of cpu on even the most simple of patches...and thats whilst using the top end macbook pro with 2gb ram !!!

Yeah CPU consumption is definately outrageous. You can always bounce shit down tho. Most environments have a handy freeze button.

I like it tho. It's very fun designing in it.

paddlingpool · Post by **paddlingpool** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:49 am

+ i like the way you can drag the modulation routing, sounds chunky, nice distortion

- uses way too much cpu

feralbrown · Post by **feralbrown** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:20 am

Linkage and/or more info?

paddlingpool · Post by **paddlingpool** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:29 am

http://www.native-instruments.com/index ... 27&flash=9

there ya go cobba

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:15 pm

decklyn wrote:
moosed wrote:its good, but it uses up alot of cpu on even the most simple of patches...and thats whilst using the top end macbook pro with 2gb ram !!!
Yeah CPU consumption is definately outrageous. You can always bounce shit down tho. Most environments have a handy freeze button.

I like it tho. It's very fun designing in it.

You found the manual?

Sub Shifter · Post by **Sub Shifter** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:25 pm

im in love with it its the best synth ive used but it is very hard on cpu.
i think a pc upgrade is in need for this badboy

skyence · Post by **skyence** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:26 pm

massive is massive, nuff said!

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:50 pm

Daft tnuc wrote:
decklyn wrote:
moosed wrote:its good, but it uses up alot of cpu on even the most simple of patches...and thats whilst using the top end macbook pro with 2gb ram !!!
Yeah CPU consumption is definately outrageous. You can always bounce shit down tho. Most environments have a handy freeze button.

I like it tho. It's very fun designing in it.
You found the manual?

I just watched the video on NI. It gave more than enough info to get me going.

ether · Post by **ether** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:15 pm

i find both massive and the fm8 preety much unusable,

massive sounds really really dope, but it wont even play some of the presets,

the fm8's even worse, it just makes my computer go crazy.

its a tad frustrating.

i tend to find the rob papen plugins like albino, blue, etc are less processor intensive and still sound dope. i dont know what native instruments are upto but however much ram or processor power i have they still max out my computer

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:32 pm

ether wrote:i find both massive and the fm8 preety much unusable,

massive sounds really really dope, but it wont even play some of the presets,

the fm8's even worse, it just makes my computer go crazy.

its a tad frustrating.

i tend to find the rob papen plugins like albino, blue, etc are less processor intensive and still sound dope. i dont know what native instruments are upto but however much ram or processor power i have they still max out my computer

That is unfortuanate! I also hear great things about z3ta. I'm sure that if you try building sounds up in massive, and just aren't using every osc etc that you'll be able to build up some neat basses.

On my p4 2.4ghz computer with 1.5gigs of ram it runs pretty well.

paddlingpool · Post by **paddlingpool** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:25 am

ether wrote:i tend to find the rob papen plugins like albino, blue, etc are less processor intensive and still sound dope. i dont know what native instruments are upto but however much ram or processor power i have they still max out my computer

yeah true, theres plenty synths out there that sound fat without using ridikuluz cpu. youre not missing out that much

lloydnoise · Post by **lloydnoise** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:43 am

massive almost doesnt run on my edwardian ibook but Reaktor is very similar and can produce sounds not far off massive. nothing multib comps cant sort rite out mate! REAKTOR RULEZ END OF

Sub Shifter · Post by **Sub Shifter** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:34 am

lloydnoise wrote:massive almost doesnt run on my edwardian ibook but Reaktor is very similar and can produce sounds not far off massive. nothing multib comps cant sort rite out mate! REAKTOR RULEZ END OF

its all about the clean userface on massive tho

kaizen · Post by **kaizen** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:17 pm

yeah love massive, sick plug-in! theres a way around the CPU usage....

if yours a logic user just freeze the instrument track, will still play the sample or what ever you've done but the computer ignores..... saving your cpu!

Sub Shifter · Post by **Sub Shifter** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:51 pm

Kaizen wrote:yeah love massive, sick plug-in! theres a way around the CPU usage....

if yours a logic user just freeze the instrument track, will still play the sample or what ever you've done but the computer ignores..... saving your cpu!

im using cubase,you can freeze the track but once its frozen you carnt change the sound

is it the same in logic?

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:33 pm

blaze wrote:
Kaizen wrote:yeah love massive, sick plug-in! theres a way around the CPU usage....

if yours a logic user just freeze the instrument track, will still play the sample or what ever you've done but the computer ignores..... saving your cpu!
im using cubase,you can freeze the track but once its frozen you carnt change the sound is it the same in logic?

Yeah that is what freezing is - it samples your instrument, and then turns off the instrument to conserve cycles - you can always unfreeze tho if you need to make modification.

downngoing · Post by **downngoing** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:44 am

I about drooled all over my laptop when I heard it. I have a DEMO version ATM but, would buy it in heartbeat if I had the cash

section 8 · Post by **section 8** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:43 pm

Massive is a really cool synth, although i haven't messed with it a ton.

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