I really hope going Open Source will benefit their business as much as customers are going to benefit from this. I hope that something like accidentals can be implemented where the sharpened/flattened notes would simply show up in a different color on the row of the scale note, akin to the use of accidentals on staff notation.Īll in all the Deluge is a wonderful piece of gear and I wish Synthstrom Audio well. With only 8 rows that means that not even a single octave fits on the screen any more.

To 'escape' the scale one has to switch to 'chromatic mode' (a row for every note on the chromatic scale) or to create a new scale by adding notes to rows not in the current scale in chromatic mode. Deluge allows arbitrary subsets of the chromatic scale (as long as it's at least 7 notes) to form a scale, and in 'scale mode' rows for notes not in that set remain hidden. * 'Accidentals' in scale mode: currently every row displays notes of the same pitch. This makes it hard to follow and awkward to edit pieces that are not in 4/4 time signature. 16 steps with a step being anything from a few bars down to something like 256ths of a whole note. * Smooth scrolling: currently Deluge only scrolls in increments of a whole 'screen', e.g.

Synthstrom Audio seems committed to support this device for years to come: they sell spare parts, organize upgrades to newer hardware versions (some more cosmetic, recently though a screen replacement from 7 segment LED to OLED display), offer 'refreshment' (new silicon pads, potentiometer and encoders). I use the Deluge to learn music theory, synthesis and a bit of composition and it's so much more fun making music in the garden than to spend another hour sitting in front of the computer.

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