63 is half of 127 when the lowest value is 0, rather than 1. Still 128 total possible values. Confusing I know.
And end user should see midi channels 1 through 16. And grand piano should be visible as sound 001, gunshot as sound 128. But inside the midi stream midi channel 1 is 0, and the first sound is 0, the last in the bank is 127. So end users should be hidden from this I feel, in sensibly designed gear.
AnywayâŚ. Deluge arrived last night! And it is indeed SUPER AWESOME!
Will leave more thoughts later, but to temper my positivity Iâve already discovered the volume headroom limits mentioned by circuitghost and I am absolutely dismayed the internal synth engine which does multisamples etc, and the community DX7 engine, do not respond to sustain pedal messages. I knew sustain was an issue reported back in 2017 but with community firmware etc, though that nail wouldâve been hit by now.
But Iâm never selling it. What an amazing box. Itâs currently on the music rest of the Nord Grand, next to the MK1 Analog Four. (It records and plays back sustain midi CC messages to the Nord, just not its internal engines) My two daughters (6 & 9) combined spent about three hours on it last night making drum patterns etc - much of this we werenât at home it was in a table in the park. I had to wait for them to go to bed to have a play myself.
Congrats on the acquisition! One of my favorite simple setups ever was the Deluge on top of an electric piano. Super easy to use the keyboard to control internal synth engines and also record audio of the piano. And yes, so lovely and intuitive to make drums sounds like itâs already getting lots of love
Not really - the range of values (0 is part of that range and counts as a possibility) is 128 discrete steps.
64 steps in the lower part (0-63)
64 steps in the upper part (64-127)
The true mid-point is 63.5 - which cannot exist. A full binary range cannot represent an exact midpoint as an integer. I come up against this problem all the time when mapping stuff!
Happy youâre loving your Deluge! Itâs a great box!
Thereâs a very friendly and helpful chap on here, think his username is seangoodvibes. Maybe ask him, the community have been very responsive to user requests!
My children and nephews/nieces love the Deluge so much. It has brought music into our living room that is surprisingly good at times. DJing before bed instead of TV time. Incredible instrument.
Iâm gearing up to add a Pioneer RMX unit to the mix to complete the âDJâ experience.
If you get bored remember the parameter locks, automations, polymeter, etc. also if the synth engine is boring try downloading a âproducer sample packâ and load in oneshot synth samples. If your sample synth is set to mono and the sample is good, it sounds huge.
Itâs really incredible what the team is doing. I canât believe bigger companies arenât copying them by going open source on a few products. If Deluge community firmware is compatible with a future Synthstrom product with more power the device is going to be unstoppable
I like the way theyâve added on/off switches for the community stuff that changes the way the Deluge behaves, like grid mode or the GUI changes. Means you can just turn off changes if you donât like it.
Cheat sheets - from earlier in the thread, 2020, I have a great one by Neil Baldwin. Any better (more up to date) ones that exist? The problem with OP-Z cheat sheets I found was that they were all super cramped unless they were way larger than the OP-Z itself.
Now we have community firmware too, has someone made a âperfectâ cheat sheet? Since Deluge is quite large a double-sided sheet of paper would work fine and have plenty of room, people could laminate it and keep in the case if they wanted to.
Iâm happy to make such a thing if it doesnât exist but donât want to go to the effort first if someone else already has. Is there a master list, even text based, of all shortcuts?
I think this is the best one. Updated for Chopin firmware. Magnetic so you can sit it right over the machine. Great for deeper editing of synth parameters (shift + param will bring it up on the screen)
So much great music in this thread, slowly making my way through all. But I really enjoyed this, while reading other posts on the train. Very airy and spacious.
Yeah itâs the synthdawg manual available here: https://www.synthdawg.com/free-stuff
You can buy a paper copy too. I think thereâs a community features manual coming one day.
Thanks⌠Iâve been making my way through that as a PDF on the iPad, but hadnât got to that page yet so I didnât recognise it. Very useful overview!
So far, no development of plot, tho currently not eyeing the Deluge. Should there be some kind of substantial hardware upgrade, I might be back for another round, though.
Nah, Iâm actually quite dormant right now as far as music goes. Completely lost the urge to buy gear, though Iâm waiting to see what Chase Bliss got cooking with their acquiring of that portable sampler hipster something or other.
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