What's up everybody, welcome to CreatingTracks.Com and today we're going to learn about Massive
and just a little bit of basics I want to cover, a lot of people have been asking me
how this stuff works and they get really confused by this whole layout over here so I'm going
to make it a little simpler for you today so let's get right to it,
So Massive comes with 3 Oscillators, which is Oscillator 1, Oscillator 2 and Oscillator
3 and you turn them on or off with this little blue button right here.
So what we're going to do is just work with our first Oscillator because all these 3 are
exactly the same.
So we're going to mess with the first Oscillator and you can apply the same rules to the second
and to our third Oscillator.
So let's go ahead and turn this on and by default this is what it sounds like.
So what this slider over here is doing is that its deciding if our first Oscillator
is going through Filter One or Filter Two, so we have three Oscillators, two Filters
and two Effects and one EQ and all of that is going to the Master.
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So we have 3 Oscillators, Filter One, Filter Two and 2 Effects and an EQ.
That's the same thing happening over here.
We have 3 Oscillators, two filters, 2 effects and an EQ so this fader right here, this slider,
or these sliders that say F1 and F2 everywhere, these sliders decide if the sound is going
to Filter One or Filter Two and these sliders over here next to the filters are the volumes
of each of these filters so if this is all the way down at zero then you're not going
to hear anything that's happening in our first filter.
And by default, our second filter is at zero so let's go ahead and turn it up and this
slider over here, is like a crossfade between the Filter One and Filter Two, so if it's
all the way down then you're not going to hear anything that's happening in Filter One
and if it's all the way up, you're not going to hear anything happening in Filter Two.
So we're going to bring this in the middle, where you're going to hear both of them equally.
And then these are two of our effects that you can select from this drop down menu.
And here is the EQ that has, that is off by default, and you can turn it on over here,
and that goes to the Master.
So three Oscillators, going through two filters and then going to two effects and an EQ and
we can go ahead and mess with our Waveforms over here so every Oscillator comes with this
drop down menu you can use to select your own Waveforms, so if I pick something like,
and that what that's sounds like.
And each one of these Oscillators, they all do the same thing, and they all come with
three knobs, and this Amp over here is the Volume and the Intensity of the Wavetable,
and then this is the Wavetable position.
And then to manipulate the sound there are three parameters, which is the Wavetable,
the Intensity and then this drop down right here with five different options, so let's,
by default our Math, Rough Math 3 sounds like this, and if I, its just the raw sound and
there's nothing in our Filters, so if I mess with the, or I can do a bend plus.
Or I can do a bend minus plus, So it might sound like its doing the same thing, but if
you listen closely they are making different sounds and Bend Minus.
So you can keep messing around with this, I'm going to use the first one, Square Soft
and we're going to turn this all the way up and lets just do the standard Spectrum.
And send this through Filter One, we're going to do, here's all our options, so I'm going
to select Low Pass Four, and bring the Resonance down, and we're going to mess with the Cutoff
and let's bring the Mix One all the way up.
So we're only hearing Oscillator One going through Filter One which is going through
our Effects directly to the Master.
So by default, this is our Waveform, and the Low Pass Four, let's you do this.
So if I bring this down all the way you're not going to hear anything and you can see
that I'm hitting the notes over here and nothing is happening but if I bring the Mix back up
over here, then you're going to start hearing it.
So if I bring this down to Filter Two and select something like Scream then.
And if I bring this slider in the middle then
you're going to hear both these Filters working together.
Alright cool.
So that's good enough for our Filters right now.
And let's work on our Effects.
So if I go to my Oscillator Two and select something else, like Multiplex, or even, and
I take this to Filter One and take this to Filter Two, then you're going to hear them
separately.
OK cool.
So in our Effects One, you can choose a lot of different things or even in our Effects
Two but what I like to do is, I like to pick my Reverb or all these other effects over
here because some of these Effects One are not available in our second one which are
these tubes which are not in our second Effects chain so let's go ahead and bring up something
like Classic Tube and see what it does.
That sounds pretty good.
And then we pick Reverb over here and check it out.
And we can also go ahead and pick, turn on our EQ and then do all these different things.
So this is our Low Shelf, the Bass, this is the High End, the Treble and this let's you
select these Mid Frequencies, which you can see but you go to hear by ear, and the Boost
decides how much you want to raise it or reduce it.This Frequency, so.
Alright so that's what Massive is mostly about, and it's three Oscillators, going through
Filter One and Two, and then going to these two Effects and an EQ.
So if you want you can turn off these Filters and it will sound like that and it's just
a raw sound and now it's just Oscillator Two.
And Oscillator going through Filter One, Oscillator One going through Filter Two, or, yeah.
And you can make them both go to Filter One so there's no point in Filter Two so you can
turn this all the way up and turn this off.
So feel free to mess around with all these parameters.
And I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, definitely stay tuned for more.
Until next week.