It’s baaaaaack. Yes Waldorf Largo is back in play in my Ableton Live rig. To celebrate this, I’ve just published a short video of a Krell patch I made called “Cold Space” using Largo with a little inspiration from the Krell channeling themselves through Dr. Morbius.
Look Ma – No Dongle!
A big thanks to sound designer Empty Vessel who tipped me off that that Waldorf had changed their licensing scheme to use activation rather than eLicenser.
I logged into my Waldorf account and went to https://waldorfmusic.com/en/my-software and sure enough – there was an option to to convert the the Syncrosoft License Key. Looks like they made the change back in 2016 so I’m late to this party – but better late than never.
Ironically, I ALMOST recycled the the case that had the Largo CD and contained the Syncrosoft key this week! That would have been super sad – so thanks Empty Vessel!
Rediscovery of Original Presets
I bought Largo back in 2011 and pretty much stopped it within a year because of the dongle buzz kill – and at the time I had a Blofeld. After I reinstalled Largo yesterday I remembered I had made some original presets for it. I dug through my backups and found 40+ original presets including “Cold Space” which is in the video above.
Here is another example of a preset I put on soundloud back in 2011. It shows off the awesome comb filter and FM on the Largo. I have the filters setup in “Serial” mode. Filter 1 is a comb filter which colors the sound and Filter 2 is low pass to control brightness.
Largo vs Blofeld
Since were on the topic of Largo – I wanted to mention that there are differences between Largo and Blofeld. Largo some unique features such as sub-oscillators, 256 vs 25 note polyphony, and an awesome 6-stage chorus to name a few. See my blog post, and corresponding mind map for a more detailed look at Largo vs Blofeld.
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Mark Mosher
Synthesist & Multimedia Artist
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