Waldorf Largo 2

[Aloysius]

I think I will get two just in case I lose one.

[chk071]

[papillons]

What happened with that Waldorf logo?

[hurricaneaudiolab]

If anyone's going to Superbooth maybe you could visit them at booth W315 and tell them it's been about 2.5 months since they said they would fix Largo 2's issues.

[jobinho]

You can get Largo 2 for a very special price now. Only 162 €.

German comedy at its best

[chk071]

What happened with that Waldorf logo?

Their resident graphics designer (Axel Hartmann) made a new one. Yes, it's pretty... peculiar.

[v1o]

You can get Largo 2 for a very special price now. Only 162 €.

Their brand carries alot of value like Moog. This is the legendary company that made the Quantum and the Q.

Moog sells their Model D for $3,000, if they really wanted to sell it for $500 they probably could if they used modern mass production.

[chk071]

I just wished the amount of work and effort they put in their plugins would in any way justify the high price.

Largo 1 got loads of updates and enhancements.

[Medenka]

It works the other way around - if they make enough money from 2, they work on it. If they don't - they don't.

The OG code is obsolete by now. Updating it, without breaking backwards compatibility = nightmare. Try to find a German software developer that would do this for free.

[chk071]

It works the other way around - if they make enough money from 2, they work on it. If they don't - they don't.

That can quickly become a boomerang, if people who pay 162 € for a soft synth realize that they get zero support in terms of updates.

If Waldorf don't care, then they simply shouldn't offer. 162 € is a lot of money for a plugin which merely sees 2 version numbers, even if there are issues with it, and despite the completely amateurish GUI.

Largo 1 is the much better product, in terms of everything really.

[Medenka]

I'd say it has become a vicious circle for them. Nave was abandoned in the same fashion - half-finished, lots of bugs. That was years ago. Do they have in-house, full-time coders? There are no signs they have! Probably hired guns from time to time - to do a specific job for a specific amount of money, and then - bye-bye, coder! Like making a resizable skin for Largo and call it version 2. And in the only bug-fix release thus far some of the drop-down menus got fixed (bigger size), and some didn't. An in-house developer wouldn't do that! Wouldn't leave it like that!

You can still use Largo 1, though! Of course.

[chk071]

I'd say it has become a vicious circle for them. Nave was abandoned in the same fashion - half-finished, lots of bugs. That was years ago. Do they have in-house, full-time coders? There are no signs they have! Probably hired guns from time to time - to do a specific job for a specific amount of money, and then - bye-bye, coder!

Sure looks like it. Also with their hardware synths.

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Largo 1.8 for 20 euro,buy now....i'm kidding.....no seriously,buy now :):)

[[nx]]

just bought the updgrade on a discount, not sure what i was thinking. I agree with most here, the UI sucks. I would at least change the font color and make it bigger to make it actually readable. I Hope Waldorf will address this, for the time being I'll probably use Largo 1 because I love the sound.

[zerocrossing]

Largo 1.8 for 20 euro,buy now....i'm kidding.....no seriously,buy now :):)

[edit]I thought this was for the v2 upgrade. That I’d pay $20 for.

[Edit again] Plugin Boutique had it for $22 and I had $2.44 in loyalty credit so I got it. It’s worth at least that to get a resizable UI. I hope they continue to work on it, though I’m not expecting anything.