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  • mute colors

    sikzsikz

    Needless to say, I'm loving the Deluge and its workflow. There's just one single thing bugging me hard: mute colors. Sadly, I can't tell yellow from green and that gets worse if the two colors are close to each other. I know it's not a common problem but I would suggest, for muted tracks or kits, to use something more straightforward, maybe shades of grey, like:

    • dark grey (the one you see editing track length) or NO color at all (light off), for muted tracks
    • light grey for unmuted tracks

    These two colors, finally, should NOT be used for track coloring, so that finding out what is playing and what is not would be a no brainer.

    Please, help a poor color-blind :-)

  • A huge Deluge user experience review

    sikzsikz

    Wonderful job laikrodiz, thank you very much.

    The doc addresses many of what I frequently perceive as UX limitations. And many more I didn't even think about. I hope Rohan will have a look at this: fixing even a third of the issues reported here would bring the D to a whole new level, performance-wise. It would make a perfect 3.2 (or .x) release too, since most of the fixes are actually "consolidation/coherence" changes that require no (small?) new features but would dramatically improve the gap you sometimes find between the way you'd do it and the way the machine wants to do it.

    This gap is what prevents other wonderful piece of hardware to be fun/pleasant/possible to use and that's where the Deluge really shines: to me, no other machine (PC included) has the immediacy of the D when it comes to create. But the more I dig it, the more I find these nasty little bumps on the road that requires a "mental lookup" (when not a "manual lookup") for the exceptions that kills the flow. And the D is all about that flow.

    Thanks again for your work!

  • Send MIDI to active/selected clip

    sikzsikz

    Alright, I got it, it's called auto-channel and I'm in good company waiting for this to happen.

    Sort of a show stopper if your live is based on fast, frequent breaks (tekno and the likes) :(

    And yes, I wish some future update will focus on interoperability and turn this machine into the live beast it could be, were not for the spotty MIDI implementation and possibly other minor quirks.

    Cheers,
    M