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Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:19 am
by fumister
what's your guys opinion? im Massive so far but would like to try FM8 :4:

Re: Massive FM8 or Camel Phat?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:22 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
isnt camel phat an fx vst?

Re: Massive FM8 or Camel Phat?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:26 am
by 3za
I would kill Massive, shag FM8, bum Camel Phat, and marry Reaktor.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:41 am
by ephyks
If only FM8s interface wasn't a complete cluster fuck.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:45 am
by wormcode
There's always Camelphat Free and Camelcrusher. I love Camelcrusher, it makes its way into everything.

And yeaf it's a distortion/compressor/filter effect.

Of Massive or FM8, I'd say FM8 but they are equally great in their own ways. If you like FM synthesis FM8 is great, and being able to load DX7 patches makes it amazing.

Massive is my goto for crazy modulated sounds though. Funnily enough I like it more for evolving atmosphere and pads than bass.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:49 am
by nowaysj
Massive is my go to. If I need a specific sound, and it is not better created with a specialty synth, I'll go to massive. I go to other synths for inspiration, or looking for random quirks, but to actually materialize a sound I need, Massive is the spot. Awesome interface.

Truly believe fm is like next level. Subtractive is so easy, saying that it puzzled me for years, but that was before the whole of human knowledge was instantly accessible. Fm is hard and remains so.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:09 am
by JTMMusicuk
Massive is my go to synth, im starting to get into a good creative flow with it and getting some really nice pads and basses out of it
i want to start looking at other synths though, fm8 for me is just guess work , i never know what its gunna turn out like
I hear alot of people say good things about absynth might have to have a look

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:44 am
by joshisrad
Neither, get a job

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:57 pm
by Jas0n
Sytrus!!!!!!!!

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:06 pm
by RandoRando
fm8, cause massive is spottable in songs from 60,000 kilometers away.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:31 pm
by SoundNuisance
Anyone watch "Shit Dubstep Producers Say" ? There is a line that goes like this.
" I used to use massive but now I'm all about FM8" :P

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:34 pm
by Sexual_Chocolate
wormcode wrote:There's always Camelphat Free and Camelcrusher. I love Camelcrusher, it makes its way into everything.
camelcrusher is a quality free vst

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:50 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
RandoRando wrote:fm8, cause massive is spottable in songs from 60,000 kilometers away.
Only if the end user lacks knowledge and creativity, you could say that about most synths.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:57 pm
by joshisrad
SoundNuisance wrote:Anyone watch "Shit Dubstep Producers Say" ? There is a line that goes like this.
" I used to use massive but now I'm all about FM8" :P
Too true.
RandoRando wrote:fm8, cause massive is spottable in songs from 60,000 kilometers away.
Also in the video.

99% of people are going to listen to a track with Massive in it and not have any idea, and when you tell them they'll be like what the fuck is massive?
The only people who give a shit are other producers who are angry that everyone is using Massive because it's such a great synth and they want to use it themselves but don't know how to use it creatively or in a way that they didn't learn from a youtube tutorial, which is what 90% of them do.


As hilarious as I think it is that everyone's on the FM8 tip now, I don't actually mind because the kind of person who migrates to FM8 because Massive is too "rinsed" now is the kind of person who won't have a fucking clue how to make anything good with it and will have the hardest time learning it XD

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:57 pm
by joshisrad
Meanwhile, in Reaktor....

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:44 pm
by wormcode
I actually still use FM7 over FM8 quite a bit. Interface is important to me because I find it inspiring. The white/grey FM8 reminds me of a Virus Snow or something. I love that FM7/DX7 look, I tend to make different sounds in it. NI don't seem to be fans of user customization. I remember we had a large thread on the NI site about skins when FM8 came out but NI never responded of course.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:49 pm
by 3za
wormcode wrote:NI don't seem to be fans of user customization.
Reaktor :6:

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:02 am
by RandoRando
joshisrad wrote:
SoundNuisance wrote:Anyone watch "Shit Dubstep Producers Say" ? There is a line that goes like this.
" I used to use massive but now I'm all about FM8" :P
Too true.
RandoRando wrote:fm8, cause massive is spottable in songs from 60,000 kilometers away.
Also in the video.

99% of people are going to listen to a track with Massive in it and not have any idea, and when you tell them they'll be like what the fuck is massive?
The only people who give a shit are other producers who are angry that everyone is using Massive because it's such a great synth and they want to use it themselves but don't know how to use it creatively or in a way that they didn't learn from a youtube tutorial, which is what 90% of them do.


As hilarious as I think it is that everyone's on the FM8 tip now, I don't actually mind because the kind of person who migrates to FM8 because Massive is too "rinsed" now is the kind of person who won't have a fucking clue how to make anything good with it and will have the hardest time learning it XD
The first people that are goof to hear your song IS other producers on sound cloud. And I've been on "the fm8 tip" since about 2010 before any video or thread existed on FM8.

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:04 am
by ehbes
i used it before it was cool to use it :lol:

Re: Massive or FM8 ?

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:17 am
by wormcode
3za wrote:
wormcode wrote:NI don't seem to be fans of user customization.
Reaktor :6:
Lol yes, and Kontakt to an extent with Kontakt Instruments. I meant the VSTi synths interfaces of course.