MASSIVE X ALTERNATIVE · VST3 / AU
A Massive X alternative built around bass.
Native Instruments Massive defined a decade of bass music, and Massive X ($199) pushed its wavetable engine and routing further. MUTANT. goes after the same low end from the other side: ready-made 808s, heavy bass and Reese, stacked four deep with drive, growl, punch and glide, plus your own one-shots rebuilt as synths.
Hear it.
Straight from the MUTANT. library, nothing added. Tap a sound.
More sounds, the stacks and the cube on the MUTANT. page.
Massive X vs MUTANT.
| MASSIVE X | MUTANT. | |
|---|---|---|
| Wavetable engine + routing | ✓ | – |
| Ready-made heavy bass + 808 stacks | Presets | ✓ |
| Glide, drive, growl, punch on the stack | Build it | ✓ one control each |
| Drag in your own one-shot, play it as a synth | – | ✓ up to 4 at once |
| Rubik's cube FX (43 quintillion chains) | – | ✓ |
| Price | $199 | $39 pre-order · $69 after Dec 15 |
Massive and Massive X are trademarks of Native Instruments. SCRAMBLE isn't made by or affiliated with Native Instruments. Price is its list price, Nov 2026. MUTANT. facts are for the Dec 15 release.
Low end, ready.
808s
Long, saturated, gliding 808s.
Heavy bass
Growl, Reese and distorted stacks.
Your 808
Drop your favourite 808 one-shot in and play it as a synth.
Mutate
Twist for a new FX chain.
When Massive X is the better pick
- You design dubstep or bass-music patches from scratch with deep routing.
- You're already inside Komplete and NKS hardware.
We'd rather you buy the right synth. If that's Massive X, go for it.
No two stacks the same.
43,252,003,274,489,856,000
Built on a real Rubik's cube, MUTANT.'s FX engine has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions, and each one is a different FX chain. To get through just 1% of them you'd have to make 10,000 presets a day for 118 billion years. That's over 8 times the age of the universe.
MUTANT. is out December 15. Pre-order it for $39.
$69 after launch. Own the SCRAMBLE. Bundle? Yours is $29. One-time payment, key and download emailed on launch day.
Questions
Is MUTANT. good for dubstep?
It has heavy bass and growls, but for designing complex modulated bass from scratch, Massive X goes deeper.
Can I load Massive presets?
No.
When does MUTANT. come out?
Tuesday, December 15. Pre-order now for $39 (it goes to $69 at launch) and you get your key and download by email that day. Bundle owners pay $29.
What does it run on?
VST3 and AU on Mac, VST3 on Windows, in any DAW that loads them: FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Studio One, Reaper and the rest. It plays from MIDI like any synth.