duncandisorderly

my deluge wouldn't save anything to the supplied card, & after a while the snares vanished... I copied the other stuff off onto my macbook & back onto a different fat-ass-format 16GB card & now it all works. just thought you should know, Sam, Rohan et al, that the supplied cards might be a bit icky. I'm new here but definitely not new to h/w sequencers- I have or have had notrons, maqs, sequentix, genoqs, zyklus, midibox, octatrack... so get ready for some suggestions when I'm up to speed. & say hi to paul nagle at superbooth. :-)

page 5 (as of today) before we find the "read me before posting" post?
should be a sticky.
I'm an hour in to trawling through these pages to make sure my own FR isn't a duplicate; would be good to add a note to the sticky explaining the various categories of FR, or at least what keywords might be useful in a subject line to make navigation (both for us & for rohan et al) easier.

• UI
• file management
• hardware-related
• effects
• synth engine
• sequencer behaviour

& put multiple keywords if your FR involves two or more things...

on with the trawling.

as a long-time user of various h/w analogue sequencers (notron, P3, cirklon, dark-time etcetera) I'm a big fan of 'playing' the skip switches, as once one would've done on a moog 960 sequential voltage generator.

but the way I use it would almost need a special mode enabling, rather than multiple key-presses. I don't know how this could be enabled on the deluge UI currently without breaking something else.
you don't want the skipped step(s) to disappear from the grid & everything else move left, because you might want to put the skipped notes back again.... that's exactly what I do on the P3.

perhaps this approach would be too radical for some, but there are a number of things I want to do during playback on the deluge that seem to be calling out for this- surrender one row of the grid (so you're not seeing twelve notes any more, just eleven) & use the whole row to select steps for an edit function that affects all of the notes** on (or near) that step.
we'd have to think of an unused switch combo to get the row into this edit mode, but once there you'd be able to switch between
"loop back to the start from here",
"stop",
"skip",
"switch to next section"
or perhaps even invoking some other modification, like the accumulators in the P3/cirklon..... "move up/down the velocity/pitch/whatever by xx amount each time this step is played" kind of thing.