KVR Audio

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:13 am

Teksonik wrote: I've sent a support request to Waldorf........

Received a really rude and abusive response from Waldorf "support" Consequentially I've lost interest in buying anything from them...............

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:30 pm

Teksonik wrote:Now that I think about it I might have gotten this version as MagWare from Beat maybe ? I know it was never CD here. I've sent a support request to Waldorf........

I got the LE edition via Beat, and am runnng the new 1.7.4 rc's just fine, so should be the same for you, as far as I can remember I just installed the old 1.3.0 and activated, the new rc's just installed over the top no need to reactivation

MillerSam · Post by **MillerSam** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:40 pm

I have my PPG 3.V in a bundle in the sales threat. If you want get the PPG for a really fair price, contact me

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:27 pm

Teksonik wrote:
Teksonik wrote: I've sent a support request to Waldorf........
Received a really rude and abusive response from Waldorf "support" Consequentially I've lost interest in buying anything from them...............

I didn't receive a great response either. In the subject line of my email to them, I said which product I was writing about (PPG Wave 3.V), and then in the response they asked what product I was talking about. (?)

If they'd actually read the email, maybe they would know.

Besides that, it's a nice synth, I like it

flonky · Post by **flonky** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:41 pm

Does anyone have Largo or PPG Wave 3.V running on Yosemite?
I've tried the last RC's of Largo and PPG Wave 3.v but they don't pass Logic Pro's validation...

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:09 pm

flonky wrote:Does anyone have Largo or PPG Wave 3.V running on Yosemite?
I've tried the last RC's of Largo and PPG Wave 3.v but they don't pass Logic Pro's validation...

Waldorf had mentioned this at their Facebook page 2 days ago:

Dear customers & friends,

Waldorf Plugins aren't completely compatible with OSX Yosemite at present. We are working hard on updates. Yosemite updates will be released in the upcoming weeks and will be announced here.

link: https://www.facebook.com/WaldorfMusic

I had already quoted that in a dedicated thead for OSX Yosemite here at the Instruments forum of KVR but not in this thread yet.
The thread seems to be moved to a different location now:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=422882

Best wishes,
Ingo

ZINO · Post by **ZINO** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:25 pm

Yearly OS releases is the worst idea in the history of computing.

They thought different and made that happen. (FWIW I use an iMac)

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:52 pm

ZINO wrote:Yearly OS releases is the worst idea in the history of computing.

Unless you are the only manufacturer of the computers that run it and want to sell more computers

Wisest thing to do is keep the old OS working for as long as you can hold it.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:52 pm

DELETED (wrong button again)

petervh · Post by **petervh** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:56 pm

Largo BUG found:

Impossible to control Filter 1 & 2 FM amount from matrix.

Tested on OSX10.8, in Plogue Bidule & Renoise.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:11 am

Just wanted to say that i installed Largo 64-bit on my laptop now, latest version of Largo, RC6, and the issue described in my earlier post still occurs: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 4#p5815294 Time to fix this really. I guess there's many people logged into their computer as a normal user, and not as administrator.

In short: The Largo installer requires to be run with administrative rights. It then creates a folder named "Waldorf" in the admin users /AppData/Roaming folder. If you are logged into Windows as a user without administrative rights, and you start your host without administrative rights, Largo crashes the host, because it expects the folder "Waldorf" to be in the normal users /AppData/Roaming folder also, which is where it looks it you're logged in as a normal user without admin rights. Basically, the installer should create the "Waldorf" folder in every users /AppData/Roaming directory, not just in the admin users one. Should be easy enough for Waldorf to fix.

I wonder why noone else complained about it. Everyone logged into Windows with a user account with administration rights? It's more secure to be looged in as a normal user actually...

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:22 am

chk071 wrote: I wonder why noone else complained about it. Everyone logged into Windows with a user account with administration rights? It's more secure to be looged in as a normal user actually...

Personally i am always logged in with administrator rights. Does it work when you at least install the software with administrator rights and use without administrator rights later? At the folder you mentioned the factory presets and the manuals for Largo and PPG Wave 3.V should be installed (also called "local library").

BTW in the past there were a LOT of other bugs where i was really surprised that no one else had found them (including myself...

)..

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:43 am

Teksonik wrote:
Teksonik wrote: I've sent a support request to Waldorf........
Received a really rude and abusive response from Waldorf "support" Consequentially I've lost interest in buying anything from them...............

What constitutes as rude and abusive? I usually just don't get a response at all.

-Sam

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:27 am

Ingonator wrote:
chk071 wrote: I wonder why noone else complained about it. Everyone logged into Windows with a user account with administration rights? It's more secure to be looged in as a normal user actually...
Personally i am always logged in with administrator rights. Does it work when you at least install the software with administrator rights and use without administrator rights later? At the folder you mentioned the factory presets and the manuals for Largo and PPG Wave 3.V should be installed (also called "local library").

Yep, that works. Probably when running the host as admin, Largo accesses the admin's AppData folder to access the "Waldorf" folder. But it's only a "dirty" workaround, as it's usually not necessary to start the host with administrative rights, and it's also counter productive, as you won't be working with the actual users folders, but with the ones of the user with administrative rights... for example, presets and settings could be stored in the admin's user folder instead of the actual users ones. As i wrote, it really should not a big deal, all that the Largo installer has to do is create the "Waldorf" folder in every users /AppData/Roaming folder. Would be cool if you could pass that on to Waldorf.

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:33 pm

Running a host or anything else, as a matter of fact, in admin rights is just plain bad practice and there is absolutely no excuse for it. It's just stupid, end of story. Music software that needs admin rights is really bad and incompetent programming, IMHO. When installing it must ask for admin credentials, when running it absolutely should not need privilege escalation. In AD 2014 anything else is just inexcusable and deserves full contempt.

Waldorf Largo + PPG Wave 3.V + Waldorf Edition: 64-bit/VST3/AAX updates