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When you find the right Peli case, please post it here!

Got an old Peli 1090 without lining which I'm lining with thin camping mat foam and mounting a KMI Quneo in the lid, once this new firmware is out and it all works with minimal external bloat-tech. The Deluge already fits well with a little foam protecting it but I don't need the many inches of foam around it like standard Pelis.

According to the www data here are the dimensions;
DELUGE: 305 x 208 x 46 mm
PELI 1090: 381 x 287 x 49 mm

so there's room for a powerpack / USB hub / junction box or whatever at the side.
It is tight, and the main rotaries do click down when I close the Peli, but it's the best I can do for the size/weight/cash and as long as I don't chuck it off a bridge it's good for my purposes.

I have also used a USB MIDI host box with the deluge's MIDI sockets but it's a bit big and might need another case with extra controllers/kit if I can't do what I want with a standalone Deluge/Quneo box. The Quneo is virtually indestructible and very thin, and can have 12 banks of MIDI control presets (easily switchable too), with 3 or 4 variables per quasi-slider/knob (note, pressure & CC, with X & Y on the pads) so it's pretty expressive but needs lots of practice to get the fullest out of it. Maybe stick an iPad in the lid for plugin pleasure, or even an old iphone...

I also have a few other MIDI controllers I'm going to test with USB hub; Korg nanoKontrol especially for mixer levels, a couple of Faderfoxes for synth sound design, ROLI blocks for...er... TBC! I wish MPE were implemented too. All of my kit is secondhand too and the only reason I could afford a Deluge was my govt giving me tax back on 2 jobs...

Hope this helps

Cheers

A future suggestion to avoid the USB adapter sticking out like a wobbly 'please knock me and lose your data or short the Deluge or damage the thing' afterthought - buy a short right-angle USB male A to female A extension cable (plus the mentioned adapter) so everything is compact and secure at the back of the Deluge. I'm using a common right angled male USB A to male USB B for charging and as a bonus it also protects the on/off switch from accidentally being switched off!
Can't find a cable though with the required ends on it yet, if one exists at all...
I'm probably going to velcro the adapter to the side of the Deluge (if I can find a cable short enough) or even splice a cable together from old broken ones once I know what the score is with v3.x.
You could also get the more common USB A male to B male cable and use a female to female USB B adapter on the B end of that...
All theoretical so far, but I want to fit my D into a Peli case with minimal extraneous dongle hassle...

Hello!
I've had an old bargain Virus B for a couple of months now and it's a fantastic sounding synth (after a good clean and LED/switch replacement) but it might be a bit too complex for the Deluge's brain to handle. If possible it'd be great though, even if someone just made it boot into Virus mode with less multitimbrality but I'm no expert heh and it would be a mammoth task though.

Some features I love on the Virus so far which could be ported to the Deluge are the Sample & Glide, 'analogue' feel level, different saturation modes, feeding audio from one preset into another, and vocoder but I know I've only touched the surface of its sounds design capabilities and am very happy so far.
I use the Deluge to control the Virus with different sounds in multitimbral mode but it does reach its polyphonic limits pretty quickly if you use lots of unison, effects etc.

A quick check online says this:

The Synthstrom Deluge is powered by a Renesas RZ/A1L processor, which features an Arm Cortex-A9 core running at 400 MHz. It includes 3 MB of on-chip SRAM and is complemented by 64 MB of SDRAM

I couldn't find any info on the Virus CPU apart from it being a custom DSP chip so I'm none the wiser, but the emulator info might give some clues but personally I'm not holding my breath for this.

I've also just read some of the features of Deluge community fw 1.3 and I can honestly say it's like a tsunami of new stuff to learn as I struggle to remember the stuff I hardly use from the original firmwares heh, but I guess like EZBOT has said we don't need to try and learn the entire Deluge, just the bits we want to use. And if that included a Virus, then it'd be even more useful than it already is for sure.

I recently tried using powered USB hub with Deluge connected to MyVolts 9V 1A centre-negative USB cable/adapter and I had problems with USB MIDI, even using a powered USB hub. I switched to an old 12V 3A centre-positive AC/DC PSU with polarity-switching cable adapter and it works fine. Maybe a current-draw issue?

But then I also ended up getting the tiny Retrokits RK-006 USB/TRS MIDI hub and if you plug the Deluge USB into a USB hub (I used a standard shielded right-angled USB-B plug to USB-A plug cable) attached to the RK-006 instead, USB MIDI works a treat. I tried a 10x socket powered USB hub and every device attached to the hub was sending/receiving USB MIDI just fine, and the Deluge did not need extra power into the barrel DC socket, but was still charging off the USB hub. One less cable/PSU to worry about.
The same RK-006 also leaves me with another 2x MIDI TRS INs and 10x MIDI TRS OUTs, so it's a powerful little device for the money. Even has latency compensation for each MIDI device, but you do need to plug it in to computer or phone to access settings.
Pity it's not built in to the Deluge!