Share the RoadMap please?
jurgis
vilniusBeta Tester Posts: 31
Although I understand and commend the team's decision to limit feature requests, I believe that sharing details of what to expect would be fair with those who have faithfully stuck with this special device.
I have had the deluge since 2019 and to this day have not been able use it in a live performance environment. Although I praise the team's constant efforts to upgrade the unit and bring some amazing functionalities (mpe, looping, euclidian sequencing, etc), there are certain core issues that seem to have not been polished off; these are not so much new features as much as basic or already existing functionalities that fail to work fully in a robust and trusted manner so as to make it to a professional environment, namely;
- effect pops & clicks
- midi mapping standards: assignable cc to all basic functions and parameters e.g. master FX, FX, Synth+Kit master volume, FX, parameters, unquantized mute, etc. Also program change recieve is a pretty ubiqutous function that is missing
- looping: Unquntized loop punching, overdub, and Looping/ audio record without having to re-select the track constantly
- stability
I fully respect Ian's comment that "if the unit doesn't do something, don't expect it to do so in the future". Fair enough. This magical box already does so much more than so many other units in a playfully graceful manner. But I think it is also fair to share some info with supporting community members on what issues will get priority in the future, especially when many these issues are not "new features" but rather "completion of previous features".
I trust this thread may begin a discussion on what to expect, how we can support, and where the deluge might accompany us in future years; hopefully big stages and transcendental experiences for thousands.
bestest,
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I wholeheartedly agree.
There are a lot of small, but significant bugs / annoyances / shortcomings that really need to be adressed. Giving the box new features to attract new customers is one thing, but having the unit stable, click and pop free and standard midi features implemented in a useful manner is a must as it ensures an ongoing engagement of the community.
I would recommend looking at Blackmagic and its Resolve product. They added new features all the time, but the app was unstable and buggy. It didnt take off for a longer time. Once they focused solely on bug fixing and making it actually useful, individuals and companies took an interest. Now its one of the largest editing apps out there.
So my advice also would be: Make whats there useful, stable and bug free.
Aho @jensg 🙌
Sadly we can't, we've promised or hinted at stuff in the past and we haven't delivered, or at least not in the timely manner people want. The arc is long, but it bends towards justice...
if you're getting clicks and pops, that sounds like a bug, send us your songs giving you issues and we'll do our best to sort it.
These bugs are not solved:
https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/4414/click-pop-when-changing-audio-clips
https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/4802/bug-recording-into-osc
https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/4770/samples-cut-when-cueing-new-song
thanks for finding stuff, if you can please email these to me ian@synthstrom.com so I can gather song files from you if needed. I'm assuming you are running 4.0.1 on all this of course?
Thanks for the reply @Ian_Jorgensen , I can detail the clicks in the coming days, but it seems like Jen is getting the same kind as me.
If you're not keen on sharing the roadmap, could I at least ask if improved midi functionality is on it. Perhaps that won't be too invasive a question.
BTW - congrats on the OLED move.
thanks
All good, just as long as people can email us with bugs, we don't have a workflow for resolving them on a forum setting unless its when Rohan is beta testing stuff, outside of that, we need to have bugs emailed to us.
ian@synthstrom.com