darenager

Holding shift to mute instantly is a bit of a pain when performing with multiple machines, can we please have single button instant mute as an option? In fact I think I’d prefer the opposite behaviour to what we currently have, instant mute to not require shift and cued muting to require shift, it makes more sense to me that way, as typically instant muting is well, instant, where cued muting happens after the specified timebase.

I really love the affect entire function, but I think it would be even better if some tracks could be excluded. Here is the idea:

Hold down affect entire, press the mute buttons of tracks you wish to exclude, they now glow a different colour (or flash, faded etc) to indicate they are excluded, now when you turn an effect knob those tracks are not affected but all the others are. It would be even better if each button (volume, cutoff, attack etc) had their own set of exclusions available, so for example your kick and bassline could be exluded from affect entire reverb, and your hi hats and could be excluded from affect entire cutoff, etc.

I find midi learn a bit cumbersome when wanting to quickly compose multiple tracks on Deluge, so it would be great if in midi/settings there was an auto channel option, where whichever track is selected responds on a specific channel. This would make for simple midi routing, and it need not replace the existing method, which of course has other uses.

So, master keyboard/controller is set to say channel 1, set Deluge auto channel to channel 1, select first clip and it automatically listens to any incoming midi data on the auto channel, record clip, when done select next track, and so on.

It would be handy not to have to always use a separate track when wanting drum patterns with sounds of different meter, like a 12 step bd, 15 step snare, 9 step hihat and so on. Not to mention jumping into a track mid performance and changing such things can be fun, so how about holding the last step for a particular instument in kit and pressing scale to set it? Now that instrument will loop back to the start when it hits that step.

We have 128 grid buttons, and 16 additional buttons, it would be great to be able to have 16 banks of 128 sounds, so for example bank 1 is bass, bank 2 lead, bank 3 pads, etc.

To expand the idea further, on the card we could have named sets of these collections, so when loading a sound hit load to select the collection, then hit the category (1-16) then hit the patch (1-128) or alternatively scroll the encoder to select.

When editing sounds you can hold down audition pads and press the shortcuts rather than having to press shift all the time, much better.

+1 collapsable view, custom scales, and no out of scale notes option on keyboard, pad mashing is my jam

Electribe 2 certainly isn’t junk, like every machine it has its flaws, but its internal synthesis is actually more well featured than the Deluge currently is in a lot of ways, and it sounds good enough, good enough in fact that people like Legowelt make and release tracks made on them.

Agree with @OdoSendaidokai the new way seems a bit of a step back, I prefer the old way or at least a choice, like the one proposed.

The pads should last a very long time since they are not mechanical switches but conductive silicone membrane directly to the PCB. In my experience this type of switch is pretty maintenance free, and if eventually they do start to get unreliable it is a pretty simple fix, often just requiring removal of the silicone pads and cleaning the PCB.