Yeah I agree with you two fine gents too, the synth engine has a few shortcomings, the envelopes and LFOs are a bit basic for my needs, the display is pretty cryptic - and isn’t fully used like for example when changing a value, no numeric indication sometimes.
I think they done crammed too much in, and keep cramming more in - I can understand why, they want to keep customers happy, and try to break arbitrary limits that other manufacturers apply to their boxes - however it isn’t always a good thing to do that IMHO.
Still, not forgetting that it does really have some outstanding features and functions, for me it is a keeper mainly for the sample playback (nice visual drum grid etc) very good arranger, and 100’s of other little nice things in amongst the 100’s of other things it does that I don’t use/need.
Ironically the next update looks to have some great sequencer stuff coming and some stuff which I won’t find much use for, I hope that usability and accessibility of the new functions are good/simple.
I often think of the Deluge as trying to be all things to all men, which can be a risky strategy as you may end up pleasing no one, but so far I have found that I can forgive it and Synthstrom, who are awesome people.