LegsMechanical

I keep reading that the Ds envelopes leave people wanting. Short max attacks, difficulty finding the sweet spot for decay, etc.. Not so.

Need a longer attack? Modulate the envelope positively with its own attack.

Snappier decay? Modulate the envelope negatively with its own decay.

This has really opened up the synth engine for me. Since I learned this tip, I’ve had zero complaints about the envelopes.

@hide_me said:
I am shocked and scared by this news. Does this mean that the owners of the original Deluge will not be able to use future updates?

I don't want to ruin your plans or cause a dispute, I just want to say, this is one of those moments when you feel that your equipment is irrelevant, it kind of makes you feel abandoned.

The statement in the site indicates that the screen isn’t necessary. Just an added value proposition due to rising costs. And it can be retrofit for a reasonable price. What’s not to like? This thing has already had a lifespan that puts other products to shame. Any other company would have already put out multiple incompatible hardware revisions years ago.

I once worked at a craft bar where we made homemade “aromatic ginger tonic” to mix cocktails with. Some dude ordered one, drank half of it, and wanted his money back bc it wasn’t sweet like ginger ale. Our ginger tonic was not ginger ale and it had no sugar, hence it being “aromatic.” He threw a small fit even after we offered to make him a different drink bc we didn’t have ginger ale. It was obnoxious.

@unknownparts said:
I somehow changed the color of my Mute/Launch pads to pink. Not sure how. And I can't figure out how to change them back to green. They still turn red when activated... I can't find anything in the manual about it...

You just reached level 2! Congrats! (I heard they turn a nice orange when get to level 3, but I’m having trouble with the mini-boss so haven’t quite made it that far. )

If the D didn’t have a screen at launch, it’d still be great (there’s a ton of functionality that a screen is not strictly necessary for). If they added the screen that’s in there now in a hardware revision, ppl would be over the moon to have it.

That’s how I prefer to think about it.

@volsteh said:
It basically play note ranges in chosen velocities from your vst or hardware synth and saves waw files of the notes so you can use them like an multisampled instrument in the deluge or other capable samplers. So you dont need to play by yourself said notes and go trough the process. Tried it @LegsMechanical thanks for the info. Did you manage to get looping to work?

Haven't tried looping with it. I've never had good results with automatic loop detection in any software though, so I usually just make the samples for pads and things really long. One nice thing about the deluge is that disk streaming makes it so that's not an issue.