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Waldorf Largo Software Synthesizer (Mac and Windows)

Largo is the first pure software synthesizer with Waldorf DNA. Flexible 16-step arpeggiator. Three fat oscillators. Waldorf designed filters.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           4 out of 10
Features:
           6 out of 10
Quality:
           5 out of 10
Value:
           4 out of 10
I Want It:
           7 out of 10
Sound:
           5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           2 out of 10
Support:
           0 out of 10
 
 

"Looks good, sounds average, hard to work with."

Overall:
          4 out of 10
Features:
          6 out of 10
Quality:
          5 out of 10
Value:
          4 out of 10
I Want It:
          7 out of 10
Sound:
          5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          2 out of 10
Submitted: 6/22/2009
Style of Music: Film Scoring
Musical Experience: Composer
Location: Los Angeles, California

 

 
Feature:
A lot of features, plenty of oscilators, layers, filters, effects, etc. However: the results of even extensive programming are just OK. Some features such as the arpeggiator are so basic, they are hardly usable, others modify the sound extensively yet not to a point where I would be swept away or excited about using it. This has been my experience so far.

Quality:
Parts of it are very well done, parts not well at all. I can get some interesting sounds from it, but useful or cool... not really. Just another soft synth. I had much higher expectations.

Value:
My buying advice - don't buy unless doing strictly electronic mixes, where this can be another tool in your arsenal.

Desirability:
It does look good on a picture and it leeds one to believe that it offers a lot of control over the sound shaping, which it does in a way, only, in my opinion, not in a good way. But the look of it was one of the two reasons I purchased it, the other being the Waldorf name and reputation.

Sound:
Sounds massive, but very, very synthetic. Has somewhat of a digital "breath" to it. Not appropriate for anything other than pure electronica genres. I found the presets to be poor and unimaginative. The instrument has more capabilities than the presets utilize.

Ease of Use:
Not intuitive (to me), weird sound saving and recalling features, presets structured into 128 preset "banks", it feels like it's 1984. Also, the company insists we read the manual. I use over 200 different pieces of software and I would like to be able to be up and running with every one of them pretty quickly, we have work to do, we can't take forever reading about knobs and sliders.

Support:
No, I haven't even registered. I haven't had a technical problem, I just didn't much like the product.

Overall:
After 2 days of playing with it I already moved on. I might use it on a limited basis, but I can get faster and better results from Omnisphere. I also use Analog Factory and Virus.

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