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Built on the sound and open architecture of Massive X, Native Instruments Massive XL is the next generation flagship synthesizer that leverages the previous incarnation with numerous upgrades and customizations, yet remains compatible with its presets and expansions. This new version has evolved with faster, more visual routes to original results.
Massive XL hits hard and fast, then keeps opening up. Building on its iconic heritage to quickly guide you to your own distinctive sound with grit, weight, and character. It takes you deep and accompanies your exploration – without oversimplifying. Make movement playable, push presets into new territory, and turn audio samples into real, tweakable synth patches. Prepare for chest-rattling bass, razor-sharp leads, pads that glow and unfold, and so much more. Massive XL works with Mac and Windows and is compatible with DAWs utilizing VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plug-in formats.
Grit and Growl
Massive XL gives your track teeth. Its weight, grit, and growl carry the Massive sonic legacy forward while giving you the freedom to forge whole new sounds.
The Fast Path to Your Own Sound
Find your sonic signature without starting from scratch. Begin with a Massive X preset, an Expansion, an audio reference, or a half-formed idea, then use Preset Generator, Mutator, and playable motion to take it somewhere only you would.
Deep Control without the Headache
Massive XL keeps the depth and open routing trusted by Massive X users, then makes exploration clearer through intuitive visual feedback. Build signal paths, discover unexpected interactions, and push your skills further in the process.
A Legacy Carried Forward
The original Massive helped define bass music, electro, and dubstep. Massive XL carries this legacy (including Massive X's sound, presets, and Expansions) into the next chapter, then opens new routes to fat, gnarly lows, shimmering leads, glassy tops, lush pads, and beyond.
Sound Like No One Else
- Powerful filters: Explore a palette of filters for shaping tones and experimental processing.
- Integrated effects: Shape, widen, and polish sound without leaving the synth, including new additions: Raum, Replika Shimmer, and Tape Wobble.
- Expanded wavetable and noise-table content: 100+ new wavetables (including vintage classics, original Massive, analog-sampled) and 100+ new noisetables.
- Custom wavetable import: Drag in your own samples or sample folders and build a wavetable palette that's entirely yours.
- Polyphonic aftertouch support: Get expressive control over every note with compatible hardware and existing presets all ready to go.
Get There Fast
- Preset generator: Turn any audio reference into a real, playable preset—no synthesis knowledge required and with stem separation included.
- Mutator and Randomizer: Find new directions fast with guided preset mutations or instant module randomization. Lock in what you love, change what you don’t, stay in control.
- Starting-point templates: Skip the blank canvas with factory presets and savable curves for filters, effects, and modulators.
- Morpher and Animator: Shape your sound with creative shaping tools that turn expressive movement into something you can perform and carry across presets.
Deep Control
- Modulation system: Get patch-layered, expressive sound right inside the signal flow with drag-and-drop modulation, side-chain, envelopes, LFOs, and macros.
- Performers and Trackers: Turn static sounds into evolving playable parts with sequenced note- or velocity-responsive modulation.
- Animated modulators: Watch modulation happen in real time. Every assigned modulator moves as a shape, and every control shows how hard it's being pushed.
- Draggable envelope handles: Grab the curve and shape envelopes directly by dragging handles and segments.
- Visible modulator info: See what you need, when you need it. Hover over a patch and see the modulators or hover over a parameter and see what’s driving it.
Create without Friction
- Compatible with Massive X: Pick up where you left off, with all your Massive X presets and Expansions ready to go, with Massive XL.
- Fast discovery: Find exactly what you need through search, favorites, tagging, and a deep factory library.
- Preset organization: Instead of one long list, sort your growing preset library into your own banks by project, genre, or client.
- See your undo/redo history: Push it too far without the fear. Every edit is tracked, and you can jump back to any point, not just one step at a time.
- The help you need: Hover over anything, understand everything. Explanations that sit right where you need them mean you never have to leave the synth to learn it.