That was already at a time when NI’s plugin was still up to date and offered a lot that Massive couldn’t. Steve Duda’s aka Xfr Record’s Serum plugin has won the hearts of EDM producers.
This isn’t just due to the slow support for Massive X (no wavetable import, no patch import from the original Massive…). The signs for equal success with their successor Massive X are rather unfavorable. Xfer Records has released v1.35b7 for its wavetable Serum Synthesizer adding VST3 support for macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon) and Windows.Ī few years ago, Native Instruments’ Massive was the nonplus ultra in the field of wavetable Synthesizer plugins.