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| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
Largo or Omnisphere. Seriously, is there another synth to consider here? WTF...Go with Largo. Waldorf for the win. |
Omnisphere is great, but expensive and still not perfectly stable. I still experience occasional crashes/freezes with it. But, I'd still recommend it for its sound designing capabilities and diverse synthesis methods (subtractive, rompling, FM, additive, granular).
As far as Largo goes, you make this statement as though Largo is the undisputed best soft synth on the market, but that's clearly not the case. Take a look at the 16-page "Was Largo a Flop?" thread over on KVR and you'll see that, despite the OP of that thread recently demoing Largo and concluding that it's NOT a flop, the overwhelming majority say it is. It's still very buggy and, according to some, is a CPU hog. The major sound designers are complaining about issues with the library/browser, issues with oscillator phasing and inconsistent sound, etc. Also, used copies of Largo appear on a pretty regular basis on their Market Place classifieds - that should tell you something right there - a brand new super-hyped synth and people are selling it off at losses of $75-100 or more within a few weeks of buying it? And, it uses SyncroSoft C/P, which turns a lot of people off. So, to answer your question, yes, there are many other synths to consider.
I'm not saying the OP shouldn't check it out and Largo certainly seems like a good synth and once the bugs are worked out could be a great synth. But, there are many other great synths on the market that have a long history, are well supported, stable, and sound equally incredible.
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