unfortunately I don’t have a Facebook account
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What’s cooking is there a new Deluge of FW on the horizon?
There is. Are you aware of the open source and community updates? There’s a huge amount of features being added to the community firmware which ranges from new FX to workflow improvements (patterns displayed more like ableton rather than summed to the single row of buttons to the right).
It’s in beta and downloadable but hasn’t officially released.
I tried the performance mode, it basically allowed me to control the global gold knobs: LPF, HPF, BASS-EQ, TREBLE-EQ, REVERB, DELAY, MOD params, DECIMATION, BITCRUSH, STUTTER. It can apply effects in real-time, similar to the SP404.
There are no transpose or MIDI FX functions for clips.
How are the effects on this box? Reverb quality especially.
The reverb has a slightly metallic sound. I think it’s Freeverb1 or something. It’s very old and basic.
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Hmm. Could a better reverb come via opensource?
There seem to be plans to add reverb models. However, the Deluge’s CPU is quite limited, so it is unlikely that it will be able to implement high-quality reverb.
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wanted to mention I will be starting a series of episodes covering the new open source when it goes public stable. Starting with grid mode! Hopefully released in a few weeks ! Thanks!
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Awesome. Thanks for doing this and helping us to get oriented to the brand new world of Open Source Deluge!!!
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Looking forward. Your overviews are always top notch. Thanks
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Anyone knows what happened to the master compressor?
I tried the release candidate and also the nightly build, but it seems to be gone in both versions…
I know they were dealing with a glitched that caused tracks to become super distorted once loading a project back up. Maybe it’s temporarily removed until they get a fix.
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That´s why I´m still on 1.0.9. It´s the latest version with full featured master compressor (and no compressor crackling).
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I assumed it had to be this way. Nevertheless I find it hard to follow how the community firmware is developing. My strategy was to look at the “community_features.md” doc at the github page, but there the master compressor is still present - so I´m not sure how often the “community_features.md” doc is updated.
Any of you guys have a better way of figuring out the development process?
are you active on the FB group? the folks implementing most of the new changes seem to post there regularly (there are dedicated threads to the open source project)
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I think the best way is that GitHub thing and sometimes they post updates on the patreon that helps support the devs.
But yeah, GitHub is a mess for people who aren’t programmers lol. I think they also communicate on the Facebook and maybe discord servers but I don’t have Facebook and I don’t know how to get invited to the discord (kinda haven’t put the effort to it).
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I’m not yet on the community build, but looking at the commit log there’s nothing about dropping the compressor, just various fixes and improvements. But, AIUI what was removed at some point is a separate entry in the community menu for it, the feature is simply always enabled now, ready for use.
Edit: Figured this is as good a day as any to update to the community build. And yes the master compressor is there in the 1.0 RC, working as described in https://github.com/SynthstromAudible/DelugeFirmware/blob/community/docs/community_features.md. And since it’s in the RC it’ll be in nightly too.
I don’t know what this mention of 1.0.9 is, we don’t even have 1.0 yet.
The master compressor has been replaced by a radical sounding version… It seems that the community disliked the full version that uses floating point and replaced it with the current implementation that uses integer values. See #274 or later.
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I sold my Deluge and a few months ago and I’m starting to miss it - the arranger and step sequencer for drums, in particular, but also the dusty synths and the ability to add a little FX to literally anything.
I needed a change and to create (energetic) space so I wouldn’t say I regret it, but I’ll be on the look-out for one again
here’s a old track, for fun: all the sounds from here came from the Deluge’s internal mic / a guitar straight into the Line In
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