Synthstrom Audible Deluge [inc. Open Source development]

But it is easy enough for audio tracks to pop card into computer and grab them from there, or if you get a wifi SD card grab them over wifi, not quite the same but not too much hassle.

every time this question comes up on the FB grp and Synthstrom forum (which is like daily) the official answer has uniformly been it’s a hardware limitation. but hope springs eternal for some I guess

So essentially, the Deluge now became a norns, but with way more hardware options?

And I suppose, higher threshold to actually write something that works.

But still, yeah?

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Plug into computer, solo tracks, press record then play. It’s not hard.
Bazinga

Even if it’s a hardware limitation, automating the current approach would be a huge help. That way I can start an export and let it do its thing while I do other things. Either way, first thing I’m working on.

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I think Rohan said he wanted to give something back to the community, inspire future coders/builders.

I would imagine the Deluge is a treasure-chest of code, given how clever Rohan must be to create the Deluge (hardware and software) almost single-handedly.

This is really a golden age… for the Deluge, for music tech… for each and every one of us - doing what we love, surrounded by tech that gets better and better… and supported by a community of kind, helpful, like-minded people.

What a time to be alive :partying_face:

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My biggest qualms with the Deluge are:

The convoluted mod matrix. The concept is neat, but a minor visualization of the routing on the new OLED would go a long way towards making it understandable.

The effects are not even good in a LOFI sort of way. Any improvement to the effects would be massive.

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yes i’m familiar with that method of multitracking… was curious if it could bounce stems/tracks internally.

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Well, the open sourcing of the firmware has me looking to buy a deluge again.

Despite my frustrations with it, which are all of the usual things folks gripe about, I’m a software engineer looking for an opportunity to get some experience with embedded audio stuff. This seems like it might be a great way to get into that!

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Is the FW on the SD card or is that only for samples… otherwise you could have different FWĀ“s on different SD cards for different scenarios… pretty cool.

Gonna be exciting to see what the Deluge scene comes up with!

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It is on the SD card.

Hopefully they’ll tweak things so you can keep everything on one card, and boot into a firmware menu.

Knowing them they already thought of it, months ago. They always seem to be several steps ahead!

This is nice, guess it also minimizes the chances of bricking it too if the fw is loaded like an OS rather than flashed to an eeprom.

Looking forward to the source being released, even though I don’t own a Deluge.


It was great, a room full of Delugeians and some.

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Sold my Deluge earlier in the year, hoping to catch an oled for sale, just managed to snag one in time for the open source release tomorrow, it must be a sign :metal:

Does anyone know if there is a new official Deluge firmware being released to go along with the firmware going open source?

Me too. I hope someone will bring the sequencer to a next level. It is yet very powerful but I think it deserve better : chords, more scales, generative stuff…

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The source has dropped :slight_smile:

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A community firmware that includes a drum keyboard and quantization!

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Thanks for posting!

Any idea if its for OG Deluges too?

I find GitHub a bit incomprehensible!

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Click the download link and there’s two different firmwares: one says OLED and the other says 7seg (short for 7 segment) which is the one you will want.

And yeah GitHub is a mess lol

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Yeah should be called shithub :laughing:

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