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When you find the right Peli case, please post it here!

Got an old Peli 1090 without lining which I'm lining with thin camping mat foam and mounting a KMI Quneo in the lid, once this new firmware is out and it all works with minimal external bloat-tech. The Deluge already fits well with a little foam protecting it but I don't need the many inches of foam around it like standard Pelis.

According to the www data here are the dimensions;
DELUGE: 305 x 208 x 46 mm
PELI 1090: 381 x 287 x 49 mm

so there's room for a powerpack / USB hub / junction box or whatever at the side.
It is tight, and the main rotaries do click down when I close the Peli, but it's the best I can do for the size/weight/cash and as long as I don't chuck it off a bridge it's good for my purposes.

I have also used a USB MIDI host box with the deluge's MIDI sockets but it's a bit big and might need another case with extra controllers/kit if I can't do what I want with a standalone Deluge/Quneo box. The Quneo is virtually indestructible and very thin, and can have 12 banks of MIDI control presets (easily switchable too), with 3 or 4 variables per quasi-slider/knob (note, pressure & CC, with X & Y on the pads) so it's pretty expressive but needs lots of practice to get the fullest out of it. Maybe stick an iPad in the lid for plugin pleasure, or even an old iphone...

I also have a few other MIDI controllers I'm going to test with USB hub; Korg nanoKontrol especially for mixer levels, a couple of Faderfoxes for synth sound design, ROLI blocks for...er... TBC! I wish MPE were implemented too. All of my kit is secondhand too and the only reason I could afford a Deluge was my govt giving me tax back on 2 jobs...

Hope this helps

Cheers

A future suggestion to avoid the USB adapter sticking out like a wobbly 'please knock me and lose your data or short the Deluge or damage the thing' afterthought - buy a short right-angle USB male A to female A extension cable (plus the mentioned adapter) so everything is compact and secure at the back of the Deluge. I'm using a common right angled male USB A to male USB B for charging and as a bonus it also protects the on/off switch from accidentally being switched off!
Can't find a cable though with the required ends on it yet, if one exists at all...
I'm probably going to velcro the adapter to the side of the Deluge (if I can find a cable short enough) or even splice a cable together from old broken ones once I know what the score is with v3.x.
You could also get the more common USB A male to B male cable and use a female to female USB B adapter on the B end of that...
All theoretical so far, but I want to fit my D into a Peli case with minimal extraneous dongle hassle...

From page 176 of the Deluge Guidebook 4.0:

RECORDING AN AUDIO CLIP IN SONG VIEW
1. Press [SONG] to switch to song view. Ensure audio input is set and clips are armed.
2. [RECORD], button should be on and illuminate red.
3. Press [PLAY]. Recording will start. Play and record buttons will be lit. All armed clips will record.
4. The red recording cursor will travel left to right across the clip rows being recorded. Audio clips must also be unmuted/green for recording to occur.
5. Recording will be continuous and not be limited by any length. Length is set only when previously recorded or existing audio exists when recording within a clip.
6. Press [LAUNCH] pad of any clip row to STOP recording. This clip will be armed to stop at the end of the ‘loop’ of the original clip length. The clip will then begin to PLAY back from the start.
NOTES

When I first got mine I often intuitively pressed the REC button to stop recording constantly with audio recording on the Deluge and was so annoyed at the audio disappearing every time I tried I gave up, but it works fine if you press any of the far-right pads within the last bar of recording. If you go past the bar length you want (say 9 instead of 8 as you were too late in pressing a LAUNCH pad) you have to edit the audio:

QUICK EDITING OF AUDIO LOOP LENGTH - TRIM / EXTEND
1. Within [CLIP] view and the audio clip selected.
2. Ensure the end of the waveform is in view. Turn (SCROLL◄►) to navigate across the sample width.
3. Press [PAD] of the last column showing the waveform. The column will illuminate flashing red which represents the loop point.
4. Press [PAD] of the column to where the loop point should be relocated.
5. To the right of the original ‘end’ position will add silence. To the left of
the original ‘end’ point will trim the audio.
6. Turn (SCROLL◄►) to navigate across the sample width.
7. Pressing a red column pad will remove the red loop point cursor / editor.
8. The audio will NOT be time-stretched when changing loop end point.
9. Press [PLAY] to hear the clip loop.

The Deluge is definitely a wild beast that needs time, patience and care to tame, but it's worth it!

Hope this helps

I recently tried using powered USB hub with Deluge connected to MyVolts 9V 1A centre-negative USB cable/adapter and I had problems with USB MIDI, even using a powered USB hub. I switched to an old 12V 3A centre-positive AC/DC PSU with polarity-switching cable adapter and it works fine. Maybe a current-draw issue?

But then I also ended up getting the tiny Retrokits RK-006 USB/TRS MIDI hub and if you plug the Deluge USB into a USB hub (I used a standard shielded right-angled USB-B plug to USB-A plug cable) attached to the RK-006 instead, USB MIDI works a treat. I tried a 10x socket powered USB hub and every device attached to the hub was sending/receiving USB MIDI just fine, and the Deluge did not need extra power into the barrel DC socket, but was still charging off the USB hub. One less cable/PSU to worry about.
The same RK-006 also leaves me with another 2x MIDI TRS INs and 10x MIDI TRS OUTs, so it's a powerful little device for the money. Even has latency compensation for each MIDI device, but you do need to plug it in to computer or phone to access settings.
Pity it's not built in to the Deluge!