Haila

Hey all,

So I finally also got to the point of too many samples and synths and songs and everything is a mess. As a lazy person, I decided to spend a lot of time avoiding a little bit of work and started tapping away on a little tool I call the Delugr.

Killer feature: nothing to install! Just point to your deluge root folder and done.

Access here: delugr.haila.fi
Open source here: Gitlab repo

It's not done or even super useful, but I'm already getting some fun insights from just browsing the most used instruments! Maybe someone else might too, so I put it up with automated builds. Feel free to drop bug reports and feedback, or better yet just fork the thing and send some PRs. I would much rather work on the UI than endless XML parsing

Here's a few screen grabs for convenience:

Progress update #1 - Samples!

Finally getting to one of the features I started building this thing for: meaningful visualization of sample usage to help trim the sample library. It's a bit raw, doesn't support audio tracks, and in general somewhat untested for edge cases, but...

Delugr now tracks how samples are used and visualizes that in the new folder-based navigation. Folders with only un-used samples are also marked un-used to make it easier to figure out what folders can be culled away.

For example, the samples in most of my "artists" folders are not used yet.

And, just in case you don't remember what Kody Nielson's sample named "5" sounds like, I added a button to play the raw samples right in the browser. Spoiler: it's a low-fi mechanical click. I think.

I'm also slowly figuring out how to meaningfully show the chain of a sample being used in various contexts. Coversely, the synth view can now also show direct links to individual samples to make navigation between things as easy as possible.

All this was rather boring work so I procrastinated a bit by redoing the landing page. It now should have much more helpful error messages, feedback during folder analysis and sweet, sweet floating memory cards in the background 😅

Next up: I'll probably take a stab at renaming and deleting files. Feedback welcome if you happen to find this useful!

@reza said:
sweet, might be valuable to check if the synth preset used in songs are the same as the saved synth preset or if they've been adjusted in anyway. might save some confusion!

I think that makes a lot of sense. It implies some way to open a synth instance (not just the preset) and visualize it in a meaningful-enough way to detect and highlight key differences between that and another instance. A puzzle for a rainy day!

@idealflaw said:
@Haila dumb question - do i have to pull the SD card out of the deluge and put it in my PC? or can i just USB up the deluge?

Yep, get your memory card into a computer so the browser can access it.

Deluge does not know how to talk to computers over USB.