Trying to combat this, Massive X only came out 5 years later in June of 2019, making it a far more recent synth. You had no reason to use Massive unless you were used to it. Why? Simply put, Massive was an outdated synth, lacked a good graphical interface and Serum’s feature set not only superseded the technology but also you could literally use the Massive wavetables inside the synth. That changed within a few months, with many well-known producers switching to it as their primary synth. Serum came out in September of 2014, when Massive was already the undisputed ‘king’ of wavetable synthesis. In essence, make sure that you don’t expect either of these synths to do something they can’t.

Since they are both the same type of synthesizer, we can make a fair comparison, as opposed to comparing an FM synth like NI FM8 to Serum. These wavetables are unique and each one has it’s own sound, allowing thousands of possible timbres. Sound is produced by wavetable oscillators that you can ‘scan’ through to morph the sound over time.

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