Waldorf

Excellent sound engine and great build quality. This is great when you want to work outside your daw. You can probably make any type of sound you could imagine on this instrument and you can save 9000 patches. Waldorf continues to update and support the instrument which has been great.

An excellent modeling of grit, and angst from the original Microwave 1 hardware. The Green Meanie update v1.2 is just what it was asking for, a very detailed and controllable mutator. Cheers.

Version 1.0.0 on MacOS had stuck notes. Unfortunately the 1.0.1 update still has stuck notes on many of the patches. The preset management is atrocious. Largo1 was a very nice plugin. As soon as the bugs are fixed, version 2 should be a great plugin as well. I like the dark skin option that was added.

Maybe Largo2 is a good synth, maybe not. But really annoying at the new version is the management of presets, which was already a pain in Largo. Not only, that it is restricted again on 128 slots. You have to load banks for each own. If you do so, the size you have chosen for the interface before went back to it's initial size.

I will remove this review and write an other review if the preset browser has following usage:

1. All available presets including presets of others are visible if chosen all.

2. Size of interface should be kept.

3. (Double)clicking on a bank should show the content (not loading via menu).

Uh-e has shown how to make a usable preset management. So please adapt yours.

I was a big fan of the hardware. The software is nice, repeats the hardware. Not sure if I will go for it, will play around with the demo first.

Very convincing analog drum synth ...the best I've heard and I've owned/demoed a few, However it also has a character all its own as well (not many "emulators can claim that)
Stable ! I use it in Live, Logic, Cubase has never crashed since v1.2.6, old Steinberg distributed pc version was buggy.
Great for any electronic music style especially EBM, Industrial, Electro, Trance etc.

Note: want to hear Attack examples in commercial music ?
Check out nine inch nails-year zero it's all over that record;"the great destroyer" and "Capital G"'s main drum beats are undeniably Attack.

Pros:
Deep Programming options .
Ability to emulate every major classic analog drum synth .
Clean concise easy to use Gui .
Can be used as polyphonic synth .
12 Part multitimbral.
Pretty low CPU consumption on a modern machine.
Built in distortion .
The documentation goes through the history of vintage drum machines and how to emulate them with attack !
Cheap ! and comes bundled with PPG2.v and D-pole.
Waldorf Filters ! (even if they are only 12db)
Waldorf's customer service has always been ...very fast for me !

Cons:
No 24db or comb filter.
No global filter.
No built in sequencer.
Presets are almost non existent in the user/3rd party world (but it dose come with many).

But to be fair ...all of these are wants not defects or oversights .


Bottom line : if you need a 909,808, cr77, Simmons, etc. and you tire of static samples this is your groove box .
H377 I've made entire tracks with it alone (as the only generator).