First off, apologies for dumping all of this in one post and apologies if I (or other people) have suggested these before. I'd been keeping electronic notes as I explored the Deluge and I looked at the notes today and realised it had started to get a bit long so I thought I'd just dump the lot on here.

Here goes! As always, these are just my opinions and they're intended to be constructive to promote discussion that will hopefully make the Deluge even better. Feel free to disagree or if there's any you'd like me to clarify then just reply in the thread.

Sequencing : General

1) Option to turn off the audio when pressing matrix pads. That way you can program stuff without it sounding and then you hear it on the next loop (or as the playhead reaches it)

2) Velocity Editing - remember the last velocity setting you modified with X knob so that the next note you enter doesn’t default to 65. Remember this on a per-row basis (for kits) and per-track for synths.

3) ‘Ghost notes’ - notes which don’t re-trigger envelopes etc. This could be done by holding a matrix pad and then tapping shift. Existing notes can be turned into ‘ghost notes’ by holding the note on the matrix and tapping shift. This will toggle between ‘normal’ and ‘ghost’ notes. Ghost Notes can also be used to lock synth parameters like a normal note. They could appear dark grey in the matrix (for example).

4) Option to prevent Deluge from automatically extending a track when you place a sample that is longer than the current track length.

5) When zoomed out on a track that is longer than 16 16ths, you should be able to zoom in on a particular section by holding a note then pressing and turning the X knob. It should zoom in so that the note you are holding moves towards the left-hand side of the matrix.

6) Option for a ‘follow mode’ where the display follows the playback position.

7) External MIDI kits would be very useful. Set OSC type to ‘MIDI’ then Transpose becomes either an absolute MIDI note number or an offset from C3.

8) A way to alter the length of a note in the same way you can alter the velocity: hold the note then PRESS+ROTATE the X knob (currently unassigned).

Sequencing: Kits

9) Hold Audition pad on a row and rotate X knob to affect all velocities on that row. This should be a relative adjustment, left to decrease current value on each step, right to increase.

Sequencing: Synth

10) In keyboard mode, holding a key and turning the Y knob doesn’t update the MIDI note name as it does when you’re not in keyboard mode.

11) Keyboard mode and non-keyboard mode vertical position should keep in sync. Currently, you can Y scroll one or the other and they get out of alignment meaning you could practice something in keyboard mode, switch back to step programming and the octave will be different.

12) Holding a sequencer pad in step mode and turning the Y knob doesn’t update the display of the MIDI note as it does if you hold an audition pad.

Synth Editing

13) For sample-based oscillators it would be better to have the oscillator volume range from -25 to +25 (with 0 being ‘max’) That way if you have a quiet sample you can make it louder than ‘max’ to compensate.

Kit Editing

14) Option to turn off auto-preview of samples in the file browser. You should also be able to preview the currently highlighted sample (in file browser mode) by pressing the current row pad.

15) When in parameter editing mode, pressing an Audition pad should take you to a different drum but stay in the same parameter e.g. if you are editing the Filter Frequency of your snare, without having to back out, pressing the Audition pad of your kick should enable you to edit the Filter Frequency of your kick drum.

Sampling / Sample Editing

16) Need a way to monitor sampling input prior to sampling. My suggestion would be to change the process used to record a sample:

1st press (shift+record) = enable input monitoring
2nd press = start sampling
3rd press = stop sampling

17) Start and End should be changed to Start and Length so that the End value is actually relative to the Start value. That way you can easily mark a section of a large sample and scrub through it by modifying the Start point. Currently, to do this you have to edit both the Start and End points to maintain the distance between them.

18) When using the X knob to edit the Start or End of a sample, play sample automatically to preview the Start/End change. For Start, play the first 1 second (maybe have the length as a Setup option) and for End point play 0.5 seconds before end time.

19) Use modulation sources to modulate Start/End parameters.

20) Ability to record step values/automation to modify sample Start End.

General

21) Playhead white cursor needs independent brightness.

22) On a track that is longer than the current display zoom level shows, some way of indicating which ‘page’ of the track you are on. Haven’t thought of a good idea for this yet!

23) Option to set default Sample Mode when loading or recording new samples.

24) Arpeggio mode that doesn’t re-trigger envelopes etc. for every generated note.

25) 0 to 50 for parameters is quite an odd choice of values. 0 to 64 might be better as it divides down by two easier.