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Future Music on MX4: the best synth plug-in ever made?

In the August 2005 issue, Future Music Magazine puts MX4 Version 2 to the test by asking the question: is MX4 the only synth plug-in you'll ever need? And while the question might be just a wee bit overstated, the answer could still surprise you...

MX4 on paper

"On paper, it's all incredibly impressive: three wavetable oscillators with an absolutely enormous range of 'tables (all with adjustable symmetry); two filters featuring more than 3,000 possible configurations; six LFOs; and four DADSHR envelopes - and that's just for starters."

MX4's modulation architecture

"The most breathtaking thing about MX4 it its modulation system. It allows for so much freedom that it's hard to get your head around the possibilities at first, and includes a range of mod signal shaping tools that will have serious sound designers fairly salivating."

"It's yet another example of the way MX4 version 2 is a triumph of interface and synthesis engine design."

Getting started with MX4

"Installation of MX4 is as just about as straightforward as they come, with authorisation done via the iLok USB key that comes with it. This means MX4 is'portable'...."

Overall

"Behind the sexy fascia lies a staggeringly flexible instrument that makes what would otherwise be a horribly complicated modulation system a cinch to negotiate. And to complete the picture everything is equally impresssive on a sonic level: the oscillators are awesome, the filters are beautifully smooth when set to the shallower slopes and devastatingly cutting when stacked up in series."

“Behind the sexy fascia lies a staggeringly flexible instrument”

"I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending MX4 to any Mac-based musician looking for a state-of-the-art synth that doesn't bury its power under an avalanche of complexity. Basses, leads, pads, effects and particularly mobile, evolving sounds — you name it, MX4 can do it like you've rarely seen or heard it done before."

“MX4 version 2 is a triumph of interface and synthesis engine design”

For the complete story

Pick up a copy of the August issue of Future Music today. Or visit the Future Music website.

 
 

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