Opinions re. Sound of Waldorf Largo

[masterhiggins]

Used to be eLicenser. Now it's just as simple as typing in your name and serial number.

[crickey13]

Used to be eLicenser. Now it's just as simple as typing in your name and serial number.

Thanks, that's great news. If it's an offline serial number activation, then that's awesome, I will give it a shot at some point when I have the dough to shell out on that.

[chk071]

It's C/R. So, for the initial authorization, you need internet.

[e@rs]

^Sorry, but you're wrong. It's simple serial number.

[chk071]

How do you know? And, why do you have to state your email address as well then?

Simple serial - just the serial. They also couldn't keep track of the number of authorizations/number of computers you're running, if it was a simple serial.

[e@rs]

Because I activated my copy on an offline machine with no issue.

Also, many softwares that don't need online activation also ask for the email. Maybe there's a link between the email address and the serial and the activation only works if both are correct.

[chk071]

Then I don't know how they want to make sure about the number of activations. They allow 3 machine activations max.

[chk071]

Also, many softwares that don't need online activation also ask for the email. Maybe there's a link between the email address and the serial and the activation only works if both are correct.

How would that work? They can't keep a database for that stuff, because, if the software isn't updated, there's no update for the database i.e. new users either.

[e@rs]

No idea, but I personally ran into software that didn't activate if the email was wrongly inserted. Offline that is.

[chk071]

Very strange. Well, I don't know enough of these things to be able to tell how they work. I guess the important thing is, as you say, you don't have to be online. Which I was quite sure you have to be, but, I'm online 24/7 anyway with all my computers, so, I can't even tell when a software needs internet and when it doesn't.

[v1o]

n/m

[v1o]

I am not comparing the sound of Largo to that of Diva, Repro, and Hive. I'm just saying that Largo is currently priced the same as those plugins. Given that, most people would naturally expect the same sound quality and musicality - but again, not the same analog sound because that would be silly. Largo is a completely different digital beast form Diva or Repro. Unfortunately, Largo is just a bad sounding digital synth for the most part.

It’s commonly on sale for as low as $29, and probably no one buys it for its MSRP.

Most people bought Largo at full price, to me it sounds like you're having a go at them. Waldorf sales are certainly not common and they only put Largo on Audio Plugin Deals after it had been on the market for 10 years. It is quite buggy and features like preset management are not up to modern standards. So we're talking about a product that's at the tail end of its lifecycle and there is no guarantee of support going forward for future operating systems or even M1 chips.

[chk071]

I agree with the other things that you said, but, I wouldn't really call Largo "buggy". It does have some bugs, but, not more or less than any other software plugins I've used. If you use something a bit more extensively, you will definitely run into bugs with most of the audio plugins available. It's a small market, so, little bugs might go unnoticed, or devs simply don't think it's necessary to fix them, when only a handful of users report them. Unfortunately, that's reality in this business. I probably reported 10 to 20 bugs by now, and, I can't really recall that a single one of them got fixed, or haven't been reported by anyone before.

[foosnark]

My god, your tortured analogies are killing me. Here's a more apt analogy: You tell your dinner companion, "Hey, I have tried the oysters at this restaurant several times. And they've always been bad. Awful in fact.

I prefer the soup analogy.

It's not like there are several companies making Blofeld and it just happens that Waldorf's version of Blofeld is bad. It's not that they're building synths out of poor components, it's that they're using a different recipe than other synths and you happen to not like that particular recipe.

[Catharsis Cat]

I think Largo sounds FANTASTIC. Reminds me of Albino, sorta:

Honestly of all the examples posted here this is the one convincing me to keep my Blofeld. It's cool that people are getting very analog sounding stuff out of it, but for me at least the appeal of getting a Waldorf synth is for the glassy wavetable sounds. And most of the presets and demos I see don't really showcase it.

(and admittedly those types of sounds are the ones I struggle with making)

I am not sure why sounding analog (wave/microwave not withstanding) is the big thing people want out of Largo/Blofeld, since the people who see my Blofeld in my studio keep making comparision to the Virus.