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Is lack of velocity sensitivity on Deluge pads a hardware or software limitation?
six_wax
Posts: 38
in Deluge Help
i.e. Is it anticipated this will be implemented in firmware? Or is this a "never on this hardware" thing?
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hardware limitation, for sure.
why produce expensive velo sensitive buttons if you dont implement it anyway
guess it is the hardware too
the synth engine correctly receives velocity over MIDI, but yeah, none of the buttons are velocity sensitive. they are just switches, and can only detect on and off states.
If a Deluge 2 came out with velocity sensitive pads i'd jump for joy. It is really tedious having to manually enter drum hit velocities to try and humanize. I've been using a beatstep as a drum pad, but that is pretty tedious at times too.
The grid would be able to be used to enter note velocity in the same way as korg gadget does. Basically drawing it in.
Maybe once the waveform visual feature is implemented that could be a nice next step.
Yup it's totally hardware.
I've kind of got my hopes up a teensy bit... since the retrofit of the OLED display I am having wet dreams about someone hacking the Deluge to have at least the 8 "audition" pads to the right velocity and pressure sensitive. My poor knowledge of these things lets me believe there could be some way to use force/pressure sensitive film underneath each of these 8 pads, and then calculating velocity from the rate of force/pressure change initially (and do the same for release velocity) - this way the only addition would be the force/pressure sensitive film and the added electronics for scanning and decoding these in some clever way. Please, someone, invent this! That would add tremendous value and usability to the already wonderful device as a stand-alone music making tool / instrument! /=j
If the keyboard view of a kit could be like MPC's 16 levels, it would be nice.
I'd recommend getting an Akai LPD8 for drum pads and relatively inexpensive.