I was expecting a ’Serum killer’ – like the one wavetable synth to rule them all, the next synth that all EDM producers would be using to make their warpy wobble bass hits. Obviously, Serum took the spirit of MASSIVE and iterated on it with visual feedback and tons of FX, and further pushed wavetable synthesis as the modern sound of popular dance music. What were your expectations when MASSIVE X was released? The Performer alone changed the game and pretty much forced many other soft synth makers to create similar modulators, where you could draw unique waveforms. MASSIVE was also the first soft synth that offered a very simple and intuitive UI to make custom sounds that were never heard before. ![]() That’s the impact that MASSIVE has had on the culture. Pretty much every major synth maker (soft and hard) now has to have a wavetable synth in their arsenal, to the point that I don’t reach for wavetable synths first these days. Wavetable synthesis previously wasn’t very popular, but MASSIVE put it on the map, and now it will be synonymous with this time period like FM synthesis was with the 80s. MASSIVE was obviously completely game changing when it dropped – it ushered in a new era of soft synths that would go on to define multiple genres of modern dance music, like the 909 did with techno. ![]() What was your first experience with the original MASSIVE?
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