I have been using it with no crashes for over a week.
My impressions based ONLY on the presets are mostly…average. I have not spent the time to create my own presets. I imagine soon there will be preset creators doing the hard part for those who like to spend money on presets. To be honest, for myself, the Massive cool sounds were created over the years by some very creative and smart Massive users. I only know the basics.
For Mac users…AVX…(I didn’t even know what AVX is) it appears to be another general loss.
My biggest negative is that this appears to be horribly rushed out the door! No midi learn. No tool tips. Poor GUI feedback. Not even a stand-alone versioni!
I’m biased. I loved NI when it was a innovative leader beginning with Reaktor 20 years ago. Reaktor blew me away and I junked Seer Systems Reality immediately. Even Dave Smith lost interest with his Reality. I think NI was at their innovative peak with Kore. After Kore…the downfall…Maschine, endless sample packs, James Walker Hall and most importantly Stephan Schmidt leaving NI. Today it seems much more marketing of sounds, outsourcing and re-inventing tools. Their photo advertisements of the cool kids in the studio really turn me off. But…that’s where the money is, and NI knows it.