Would love to see it with a korg minilogue type screen. Such a compelling instrument but it’s evolved way beyond the display imo. It’s the only reason I won’t buy it, which is saddening and a little frustrating.
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Let’s go 
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this was fresh
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Jeff is really nice guy and skilled instrumentalist. Bought his Linnstrument playing course some time ago. Helped me to adopt some of his playing approaches (simplified chords etc.).
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yep he’s a class act
Every Deluge is hand assembled in New Zealand and our team have been frantic all year.
We’ve got our first tradeshows since the Pandemic begun coming up soon, the first of which we’ll be showing off new features which even our beta testers haven’t seen yet!
We want to make sure we’ve got enough stock on the shelves and so are taking a break from sales for just a few weeks.
Sales will commence again Sept 9th, 2022.
If you want us to send you an email once sales start back up, enter your email here: https://forms.gle/sK6XxTSDB4THe21QA
Come and see our booth at Knobcon in Chicago on Sept 9-11 and Synthplex in LA, Oct 27-30.
We’ll also share a video on Sept 9th of the new features for those who can’t make it to Knobcon
This was posted on the Synthstrom forums, heads up for anyone looking to buy a Deluge soon. Also, now we can begin speculation on what new features might be coming down the pike 
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New features? The Deluge has so many features, that I don´t miss a thing.
Maybe, they just show the new external usb screen, that you can attach to the Deluge … 
Whoa … is that a thing ? … or just a hoped-for thing ?
I dream of this for so long: usb screen with multiple outputs 
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That would make for an amazing DAWless homebase.
I really doubt it though, seems like a massive effort, too much for a smaller company.
I am going to catch some slack for this, but the deluges biggest enemy is not its features, its the hardware. There is simply too much going on in the current form and constantly re-doing the labels isnt it. The deluge needs a proper screen plain and simple. The calculator screen can only do so much. It’s an absolute pain to manage samples and seeing the waveform of samples on the pads is a bandaid not a solution. Struggling to try to read what file you have because the screen is worse than a calculator I had 20 years ago is quite frankly a joke.
They have sold plenty by now to update the hardware and though I know they are beloved because of all the features they add and their great communication, this is the first piece of hardware I have used where seeing a new update actually makes me un-happy instead of happy. Its simply too much at this point and its hard to even remember what’s what because the screen doesn’t assist you in any shape or form, its all new button presses and shortcuts. I know im not alone, because every single time a new groove box comes out everyone says oh shit it could be a deluge killer with a nice screen! So hey, deluge, be a deluge killer and come out with a modern screen!
I dont buy into they are a smaller company thing. These are $1k a pop and they have sold a shit ton. M8 tracker has a screen and is made by 1 dude and he did it all during the biggest supply chain issue in history.
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Yeah TBH the last thing Deluge needs is even more features, fix and refine the existing functions would be better.
USB screen is definitely not possible BTW.
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I’m hoping some version of this is actually what’s in store
I’d say that a lot of the “core” features around Deluge’s sequencing, “patch bay” and sound design are super intuitive – I got mine and did next to no research other than watching a few 20-30 min videos of people using it and was shocked at how much I could do without opening the manual.
That said, I agree that all of the 3.x and 4.x features are pretty complicated and not nearly as intuitive as those core features are. I think a screen could definitely help with some of that by making the “menu diving” stuff that is present already much more useable, because as you say the button combos required to do some of these things are really pretty hard to remember especially if you don’t do them on a regular basis.
I don’t think all of the new features fall victim to this kind of creeping complexity though. The MPE and wavetables stuff from 4.0, for example, are both incredibly easy to use.
I think a revision that had a small OLED screen along with velocity-capable and aftertouch-capable would be great to see, and probably wouldn’t necessarily mean that the original Deluge was discontinued. A revision could be considered more like a “premium” edition, maybe.
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I’ve been struggling with the same thing. I love all the features I don’t love looking for all the features.
Looks like they are adding an OLED for new Deluges and old ones can be retrofitted as well.
Doesn’t look like theres any new functionality but I did spot a line that said “sidechain compressor.” I wonder if thats in reference to the current sidechain effect which isn’t really a compressor. But yeah, looks like they solved one of the biggest problems many people have with the Deluge.
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Holy fuck. Bought
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Wow game changer. Wondering if I should send mine in…anyone else in the states thinking of retrofitting theirs?
absolutely yes