Hi all !
As much as I love this synth, I'm now afraid to work with it because I noticed a lack of reliability and stability on my system.
I use MX mainly through Maschine software, but I also had problems in Live.
Bugs encountered (in maschine SW specifically):
- I'm working on something, then I want to select my group or sound with MX in it, Boom, whole software crashes. (ok I'm tired of cmd+S at every step, just in case..)
- Randomly, when I select MX, I have a big audio glitch, but the instance remains open, no crash, but no sound anymore :) I have to reboot maschine, sometimes that solves the problem (until next crash), sometimes the instance just doesn't produce any sound anymore, even after full computer reboot.. SO I have to delete the instance and reload a new one & my preset from my user menu or redo my patch if I forgot to save... great! This problem happens randomly as well on big greedy patches, as well on a basic sine with a simple filter...
These bugs do not seem reproducible and occur randomly, on very small projects (therefore low cpu use), as on larger ones with hard cpu work.
That's why I just avoid using MX these days.
I have a Mac Pro late 2013 (the bathroom bin) dedicated to my music production with 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5, 32Gb Ram, running pretty fine Mojave.
I know my computer is getting old now, but it's still very fast for a lot of things, and I rarely have a CPU stress spike when I'm working, I don't plan on replacing my Mac Pro right away, it's still working fine.
Is MX a problem with my current CPU or is it a problem that seems to affect several people ?
What is your experience with the stability of Massive X ?
Thanks !