Deluge purely as drummachine/sequencer
Hi folks
After attempts to create a 8 channel 16 step sequencer for drums in software using 2 novation launchpads I've kinda given up and thought I'd look for a hardware alternative. The deluge seems to be the answer, but I'm struggling to find out if it will do what I need.
Hope it's ok to throw a bunch of questions out there, in hope someone can tell me if it'll do these things. I'm purely wanting to use the Deluge as a sequencer for drum samples.
Can I easily switch between patterns on the fly? To put it simply, swap between one pattern for a verse, another for a chorus? Or does this involve a bit of menu diving? Or could it potentially be controlled via an external midi controller? I can see there's song saving - but does it do "presets/snapshots" within songs?
Within a sequence of say 8 drums, is it possible to have different step lengths for each drum? Say, Kick drum is an 8 step sequence, but the snare is a 7 step sequence?
Would I be able to use an external MIDI controller to control things like pitch, decay, fx send, volume for each drum in a track? If so, can these be hard assigned, so no matter which song, sequence or kit I was using they would remained mapped the same way? Can the parameter sequencing be done from external MIDI?
Can I pan individual drums left and right? So kicks go out of the left channel, and all other sounds out of the right?
Can I solo individual drums in a track, or is there only a mute function?
-Tom
Comments
1.- 5. yes you can.
limitations:
2: tracks can have different lenghts. but you cant have different lenghts in the same track. so you have to create seperate tracks for snare 7 steps and kick 8 steps.
3: learns are per song. if you want em hard assigned you have to create a song template and reuse it for all your songs.
Great!
With point1, what's the process of changing patterns?
I'd recommend checking out Youtube videos to see it in action. In a nutshell, each "kit" can have several different patterns that appear as different rows in song mode. You click the corresponding launch button to change to a different pattern.
All yes,
3 yes,use MIDI learn mode as above.
( or just use the Pitch knob on Deluge, it's meant to be a Sequencer as much as anything else. )
but 5, maybe?
See my YT video on Drum Synthesis, btw! If you want to use more than samples.
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