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sfd · Post by **sfd** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:24 pm

Congratulations TAIFUNK !!!!!!!

Taifunk · Post by **Taifunk** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:32 pm

chk071 wrote:Grats to your new synthesizer. You'll love it, i'm sure.

sfd wrote:Congratulations TAIFUNK !!!!!!!

thanks a lot guys

you are great competitor!

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:37 pm

Congratulations, Taifunk!

You've won a wonderful synth and without any doubt you will indeed have a blast with it!

Don't forget to show us a work you've made with Largo in the next weeks!

Laurent, it is a real pleasure to participate to these games and contests that you organize sometimes here!

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 12:58 pm

Hoping you're not too sad, chk071. You found Largo you too, and just 2 hours before Taifunk, but Taifunk suggested a number of presets which was closer than yours.

So congratulations to you too, chk071, to have found as well what was the right synth!

Let's play all together the next Lotuzia's contest!

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:07 pm

Thanks.

I'm not really sad that i didn't win because i already own Largo. Would have liked to have won Serum though.

I was sure it had to be a wavetable synth when listening to the sound demos.

Was a fun contest anyway, thanks to Lotuzia for doing this.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:15 pm

chk071 wrote:Thanks. I'm not really sad that i didn't win because i already own Largo. Would have liked to have won Serum though. I was sure it had to be a wavetable synth when listening to the sound demos.

Was a fun contest anyway, thanks to Lotuzia for doing this.

Largo isn't a wavetable synth, is it? I can't really tell from reading the specs. I just assumed all Waldorf synths were wavetable based.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:20 pm

Lotuzia wrote:The name of the synthesizer and the name of the company who created it have four (4) letters in common ! Is it on purpose, or just hasard ?

I don't think that it is on purpose.

Largo is simply the traditional term given to the slowest tempo in classical music (from 40 to 60 bpm). And Waldorf's managing director is Wolfgang Düren, who is a passionate of classical music (and perhaps especially Händel). If I remember correctly I seem to recall that many years ago he tried to work with Tangerine Dream on a work based on old classical works at the same years he produced "Eyeless dreams".

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:28 pm

For those who don't know who was Wolfgang Düren at the end of the seventies:

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:30 pm

wagtunes wrote:I just assumed all Waldorf synths were wavetable based.

They are, and so is Largo.

BlackWinny wrote:
Lotuzia wrote:The name of the synthesizer and the name of the company who created it have four (4) letters in common ! Is it on purpose, or just hasard ?
I don't think that it is on purpose.

Largo is simply the traditional term given to the slowest tempo in classical music (from 40 to 60 bpm). And Waldorf's managing director is Wolfgang Düren, which is a passionate of classical music (and perhaps especially Händel). If I remember correctly I seem to recall that many years ago he tried to work with Tangerine Dream on a work based on old classical works at the same years he produced "Eyeless dreams".

Don't they have a thing for the Bond bad guys?

Blofeld, Largo, and other Bond related stuff like Lector...

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:32 pm

I also want to congratulate...my self. For not winning a....Serum !
Pheeeeew !

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:35 pm

Also...I've to say that this was a verynice competition and thread. Very friendly, very civil, very good atmosphere. This is what I would love to see more of here at KVR.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:37 pm

sfd wrote:I also want to congratulate...my self. For not winning a....Serum !
Pheeeeew !

I think that like me you would have had the worst difficulties to use Largo also. Incredibly wonderful sounds, I really love all the Waldorf instruments... but you and me have the same problem with the white GUI's and also with some colours. And you much worse than me alas, my friend...

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:58 pm

Let me add that this album, which has never been distributed on CD (only on LP) is available here for free:

http://web.archive.org/web/200812071811 ... fian.info/

All the links to the five MP3 tracks (which represent the comprehensive album) work perfectly.

Before being the distributor of PPG then the managing director of Waldorf, Wolfgang Düren was really a very great but also very underestimated musician. He was mainly sound designer and sequencer technician for Tangerine Dream (but also for Klaus Schulze and other Krautrock musicians if I recall correctly) at the best period of the band: the years 1975 to 1980.

Taifunk · Post by **Taifunk** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:35 pm

BlackWinny wrote:Congratulations, Taifunk!
You've won a wonderful synth and without any doubt you will indeed have a blast with it!
Don't forget to show us a work you've made with Largo in the next weeks!
Laurent, it is a real pleasure to participate to these games and contests that you organize sometimes here!

thanks Black Winny

with all those smile seems xmas for me (here to me is 40 °C

)
Largo is amazing and I always wanted a waldorf! before now I have only been able to hear the fantastic sounds

BlackWinny wrote:Don't forget to show us a work you've made with Largo in the next weeks!

of course

BlackWinny wrote:Let's play all together the next Lotuzia's contest!

of course

chk071 wrote:Thanks. I'm not really sad that i didn't win because i already own Largo

I'm happy to know this

sfd wrote:Also...I've to say that this was a verynice competition and thread. Very friendly, very civil, very good atmosphere. This is what I would love to see more of here at KVR.

totally agree

sfd wrote:I also want to congratulate...my self. For not winning a....Serum !
Pheeeeew !

and this is the best post of the thread

I'm really happy to win, but even more so to have known you guys have given me a nice day! :hug:and thanks again to Lotuzia for allowing this

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:30 am

chk071 wrote:Thanks. I'm not really sad that i didn't win because i already own Largo. Would have liked to have won Serum though. I was sure it had to be a wavetable synth when listening to the sound demos.

Was a fun contest anyway, thanks to Lotuzia for doing this.

Thanks chk071.

Nice that you already own Largo. Btw, the soundbank, World Of Largo, will be distributed by Waldorf. It contains something like 170+ presets iirc.

Yes, some sounds, tbh most of them, are typical from WaveTable synthesizers. Like VA, all wavetable synths are different ( EVs, filters, etc) and should never be seen as a *pile of features*. Did I feel restrained because I could not import my own wavetables during the making of ? Never ! As one can hear, there's already SO MUCH to do with synthesizers like Largo or Massive. I see almost zero interest into loading wavetables from analog synths into a wavetable synth Results will be disapointing if you aim at recovering that analog sound, for various reasons, and possibly interesting at best. So that loading your own wt is a real advantage, especially after you have explored the gazillions possibilities you already have at once Under the hood. It is certainly an advantage also if you have very precise works in mind. If so, just use a synthesizer that can import WT, like the one you mention. Then, you'll never get the same patches from the synth you mention, than what you can get from Largo (especially the filters and various disto are unique on Largo).

Like VAs, WT : all different synths, most are unique, and having a couple of them, or more, will never harm. Then, if you can afford only ONE, well, its a matter of choice, and here again judging from the sound itself, and not from the pile of features can be as a wise/valid approach as another one.

Guess the Synth 21 ( Waldorf LARGO - 60 audio demos - Winner : Taifunk)