19 Custom Darkwave/Cyberpunk Presets

Very nice thanks - couldn't resist adding my own thumbnail from the classic computer game

Lady Incognita

Wow, that's quite a challenge you set for yourself. Nice work!

That's awesome that your demo is entirely made with your Massive X presets. Great work!

Also, the Tesla Coil and Cinematic Kick presets are really cool :)

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240318#Comment_240318

Whoa, how were you able to get the presets to show up on the side bar and with the image??

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/47666/tip-how-to-make-your-own-banks-in-massive-x

This is how

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240338#Comment_240338

Thank you, but unfortunately I'm on windows! :(

But that's really cool of you to offer packaging others presets for them!

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240336#Comment_240336

Yeah there is some generic style patches in there and some more creative ones, and some not so great. It's how they all work together is the key, at least Ithink so. If everything grabs your attention then nothing does, if everything is too exotic and alien then it might not be a listenable. So I think the trick is to ride the line between safe and familiar, and the more creative and less explored.

Although, I will admit this was my first attempt at synth creating synth patches. I've usually gotten by with just modifying preexisting ones to get them to sound more like I want. Creating patches from scratch has always been on the "to-do" list, I just never get around to it until now.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240338#Comment_240338

In creating these patches I only just started to realise that there are several features that NI really need to add. Most likely it has been the subject of many long debates, so I won't bring them up here.

I will say though, the ability to create your own bank is something I didnt think of. As time goes on I can see it becoming an issue. With any luck they'll add it as part of an update/upgrade.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240318#Comment_240318

Oh, there was. game?!?! 🤔.

I guess, I'm not surprised, its pretty cool name. Something I didnt come up with until about half an hour before uploading. 😳

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240342#Comment_240342

It's not a problem, literally takes a few seconds. I would just need the patches and a thumbnail image.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240345#Comment_240345

I've been hassling NI over this since it first came out, and even longer to get the same bank saving functionality in Komplete Kontrol. No movement yet. So when a friendly dev realised the issue and that they could make a simple app to fix it I jumped on it and made a few suggestions of my own like adding Massive X and sub bank support.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240344#Comment_240344

Good point about having that balance between safe and creative sounds. And nice job on your first time creating presets from scratch!

I noticed that all of your macro knobs were the same on all 19 presets and curious if they were all branched off of a first preset or if you set them all up that way from scratch. Very interesting and I kind of like the consistancy.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/240355#Comment_240355

I wanted to have the Macros sorted from the start, but I didn't really have a concept for them, except Motion and Ambience, which was originally called Space. It wasn't really towards the end when I started to need to mix the tracks without additional processing that I realised what would have been handy. So I had to laboriously go back through each and every intrument and set it all up. It was VERY tedious. It's part of my base template now though.

The concept fell down with the "performance" patches however, so I had to wrestle with those further.

I've got to say that after putting this piece together I am not a huge fan of the performance modulators. They ignore all the original care that you put into the envelopes and their response in the first place and it's almost impossible to get them to respond the same way. Plus they are not nearly as quick and intuitive to use as an Arpeggiator or a Sequencer. Two things I know everyone else would want in Massive X.