For me was it was the lack of button mashing interactivity. I made some really great tracks on it but it reminded me of working in the DAW, where, you’re done, you press play and sit back and enjoy the really cool thing you made. I make objectively better music when I’m working on a DAW vs DAWless, and my Deluge tracks were approaching that level of DAW polish… but…
I need a groovebox that lets me Street Fighter button-mash my way to … well hopefully something good, usually not, but I have a lot of fun doing it.
STREET FIGHTING CHAMPS:
Analog Rytm
DrumBrute Impact
Hydrasynth with its insane LFO controllable ARP.
A portable rechargeable unit like Deluge, like OP-1, can be used anywhere. In a basic way. The OP-Z and OP-1 I’ve used outside on a Café table with my kids and Miss 6 Year Old often says “do you have any music things in your bag we can play with?” and she knows how to program beats and (somewhat musically disastrous) melodies on the OP-Z. Miss 6 and Miss 9 have watched quite a few Deluge videos with me and they’re super excited to get their hands on it, as I am.
As soon as you simply HAVE to carry a USB power bank and powered speaker around, the barrier to entry rises significantly. On the train myself? Yeah I’ll use headphones. But waiting outside shops or out and about, teaching someone how to do stuff, the internal speaker is useful, for what it costs. In fact, if I ever bought a Circuit I’d only be interested in the first one, since they later removed the speaker.
I bought deluge as my first ever synth/groovebox, and have been using it for some time along side push and live. Recently i got digitakt 2 and for me it’s much more immediate machine for music making, sample based, and matches great with live using overbridge.
Saying this i still use deluge as synth. For chords/melodic parts it’s more capable then digitakt. It has it’s own arp, chords, compression, per track and master, and effects.
Also you can make your own sounds. It has plenty to make songs with it
Hm doesn’t it?
If not, you can always go to Deluge discord.
Their team of developers is amazing and they are open to implement new stuff if the idea is good and people support it
The speakers on devices like this and the M8 are interesting, because they’re objectively pretty bad and make the hardware sound… not very good. And I never use them! But I’d still miss them if they weren’t there, it’s weird. It’s somehow reassuring that they’re there in a pinch!
Cool!
I’d say include them all and let user sort them in folders according to their taste.
Or name them with categories in their name to facilitate navigation and let user enjoy.
The whole thing is probably nothing in a 16Gb SD card.
We will share all of them but we want to release a curated preset pack that represents the Deluge well. If everyone votes and says not to include a preset, we’re not going to include it in our official community firmware pack.
Also winners will receive prizes from Synthstrom. So please vote and show support for the talented people that took their time to design these presets.
Not really. 0-50 is 51 values. 0-127 is 128 values. Some midi gear reports 0-127 as per the spec, others show 1-128, so the half-way point on some gear is 63, or 64… but it’s still exactly half.
Could be wrong here… but isn’t 0-127 actually 128 values?
And if you have an even number of values, the midpoint must be between the values?
So MIDI CC range can’t really have a midpoint, it would be 63.5.
This kind of shit often does my head in when having to map MIDI to various ranges. Often end up having to move something to get the middle to sit right.
0-50 would actually make more sense in terms of a midpoint. But binary doesn’t do midpoints well!
Yeah, MIDI is annoying in that respect. Most of my detented gear gives out 63 when in the middle, but most programs (correctly in terms of the maths) won’t allow that to be the middle.
The solution sometimes is to move the mapping range itself, change its max or min a tiny bit, often works to give access to the midpoint.
It’s a compromise though, depends how important the midpoint is to your sound.
(I am reading this whole thread after all)
