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  • FEATURE REQUEST: MIDI SysEx data support

    I would like to second this.

    The Deluge's synthesizer facility is not easy to program. I have been loaned a Deluge and was all set to write a patch editor for the synthesizer in Edisyn and make it available as free open source to the community -- and then discovered that the Deluge responds to neither Sysex, NRPN, nor CC. For the love of Pete.

    I think this should be very, very high on the feature list. There is no way to externally edit or control the Deluge!

    I would suggest the route taken by DSI, er, Sequential:

    • Use NRPN for real-time control all synth parameters
    • Overlay this with CC for common synth parameters for those DAWs (cough Ableton) too stupid to offer NRPN support
    • Use Sysex for bulk patch reception, laid out in exactly the same structure as the NRPN ordering.
    • The Deluge should emit sysex patch dumps at least.
    • Provide a request-for-bulk-emit command in Sysex.
  • [BUG] How do you make a repeating, 16-step long note in a single 16-step clip?

    To make a 14-step long note, press the head of the note, and while holding it down, press the tail 14 steps further.

    To make a 15-step long note, press the head of the note, and while holding it down, press the tail 15 steps further.

    To make a 16-step long note, press the head of the note, and while holding it down, press the tail 16 steps further? Nope. This is for some reason the procedure for creating a drone note, which is terribly inconsistent. I can't find any way, in an N-long repeating clip, to create a note that is N long. Is there some secret procedure? Other than a workaround by literally duplicating the entire clip to make it twice as long, a grotesquely ugly hack.

  • Fine Note Length Adjustment

    Coming over from another thread where I had proposed my own solution to this:

    Using the knob to change the note length from 3 steps to 1 (or 5!) would probably be very difficult to integrate with the Deluge's existing approach, and with the goal of short gate values. But here's something that could be done trivially: use the knob to define the length, in fraction of a step, of the last step in the note (for the current zoom value). For example, if you have a note length being currently displayed with 4 steps, in fact it's really 3 + x steps, where x is some value from 0.0 exclusive to 1.0 inclusive. The knob would let you quickly change the value of x.

    If you just have a single step, this has the nice property of just specifying the gate length of that one step, which is what I think people are asking for. After all, a single-step note is really some 0 + x steps long, so your knob is just changing x as a percentage (from > 0.0 to <= 1.0).

  • [BUG] How do you make a repeating, 16-step long note in a single 16-step clip?

    I don't disagree that there are more workarounds to this problem when using in-the-box sounds, but for me the big use case of the Deluge is as a sequencer for external gear.

    At any rate, it's still pretty astonishing that, rather than find a simple interface option for making a drone note (I still like left pad - mute), Sythstrom chose to eliminate a feature of their own machine, and a not unused one at that, and replace it with the drone note. Who breaks their own device to add a feature when doing so is utterly unnecessary? :-(