Few soft synths are as legendary as Massive. This is the history of Native Instruments’ evergreen wavetable instrument, from development and release to its recent rebirth as Massive X Player.
Massive. Has there ever been a better-named soft synth? Native Instruments’ bass monster arrived in late 2006, blowing the competition out of the water with its astonishing sound quality, novel use of wavetables, semi-modular structure, powerful modulation options and ease of use. It soon established itself as the instrument for electronic music producers, helping spawn not only dance music genres like dubstep but a glut of copycat wavetable synths of varying quality.
