{"id":108,"date":"2021-08-12T01:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:22:10","slug":"waldorf-largo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/waldorf-largo\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldorf Largo 2 \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy 10th birthday! Now grow up!<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy 12th birthday – look – you’re all grown up now! And black!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the first Largo<\/em> after Serum<\/em> was a painful experience \u2013 the interface was tiny, cluttered and very grey. (Not surprising as Axel Hartman designed it, as he did the Alesis Ion<\/a> which is also tiny, cluttered and very grey.) Now there is Largo 2<\/em> and it has finally embiggened. I can’t say that it has become any prettier but at least there is a dark skin now. The white one is a little hard on the eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you would prefer a modern interface, then Waldorf’s Nave<\/em> might suit you better. But that’s quite a different animal to the older Waldorf instruments, and I will explain why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Largo<\/em> is a close sister to the Blofeld<\/a> (which is why it appears here under ‘virtual wood’). Both are wavetable synthesisers but are best thought about as well made virtual analogues with wavetables as just part of the plan. You drive the sound through virtual components, making a warm, fuzzy ‘analogue’ sound that gets only harsher once you start adding cross modulation. The tactics are same as you’d try with the MS2000<\/a> or BassStation2.<\/a> Push – push hard for burn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the age of the software the quality of the emulation is extremely good – as good as Roland has only recently achieved with ACB. Of course the Blofeld is just as much software as Largo<\/em>. You have a choice \u2013 do you want to have a an external box running software, which you must control remotely (as the few knobs on the box are not much fun) or would you prefer to see virtual controls on a computer screen? The most recent version of the SoftKnobs<\/em> Blofeld editor is quite robust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Largo<\/em> doesn’t include sample playback, and doesn’t have slots for your own wavetables. It produces many times the voices of the Blofeld – and each oscillator has its own sub oscillator. The on screen controls make patching more intuitive. But then Blofeld is ready to make noise as soon as turned on. Samples are instantly ready, no loading required. You would only play one sound at a time though, as Blofeld’s voice count will cut out sooner. Those few knobs won’t do much tweaking either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Largo 2<\/em> has sprinkled a few features here and there – there are now four layers – LFO3 can be hand drawn – and there are formant filters. It now compares to other soft analogues with wavetables (e.g. u-he Hive 2<\/em>) but the interface really<\/em> needs a more confident refresh. Waldorf – look at Vital<\/em>.<\/a> You’re not there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 10th birthday! Now grow up! Happy 12th birthday – look – you’re all grown up now! And black! Using the first Largo after Serum was a painful experience \u2013 the interface was tiny, cluttered and very grey. (Not surprising as Axel Hartman designed it, as he did the Alesis Ion which is also tiny, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[4,6],"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-virtual-analogue","tag-wavetable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}