So I’ve been working with the FlashAir card and it’s amazing. The way they suggest configuring it on the DownRush page is for it to work as an access point that you connect to, but that doesn’t seem like the best way.
This page: Using a Toshiba Flashair SD card - Matt's Hub
Explains how you can put it in “station” mode where the card will actually join your network on its own. This is referenced at the bottom of the DR page in the ADVANCED section but no explanation of how to do it. I’m guessing they leave it out because it’s tricky to setup.
With the FlashAir joined to your network you can actually map it as a local drive (in Windows) on your computer. This is comparable to Octatrack USB mode but you don’t have to put the Deluge in any special mode, it’s always on, and it’s wireless.
Having it as a mapped network drive opens up a whole range of interesting possibilities, but I’m not sure what the limitations are. It seems crazy that it works at all. Loading a .WAV from the mapped drive into Sound Forge, that the Deluge already has in memory, and modifying/saving it back out seems to cause trouble. But the Deluge can work with it just fine if I save it under a different name. I will have to experiment to find out more.