Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source
This makes me so happy!<p>I use the Deluge to learn music theory, synthesis and a bit of composition and it&#x27;s so much more fun making music in the garden than to spend another hour sitting in front of the computer.<p>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 &quot;refreshment&quot; (new silicon pads, potentiometer and encoders).<p>Things I hope can be implemented:<p>* Smooth scrolling: currently Deluge only scrolls in increments of a whole &quot;screen&quot;, e.g. 16 steps with a step being anything from a few bars down to something like 256ths of a whole note. This makes it hard to follow and awkward to edit pieces that are not in 4&#x2F;4 time signature.<p>* &quot;Accidentals&quot; in scale mode: currently every row displays notes of the same pitch. Deluge allows arbitrary subsets of the chromatic scale (as long as it&#x27;s at least 7 notes) to form a scale, and in &quot;scale mode&quot; rows for notes <i>not</i> in that set remain hidden. To &quot;escape&quot; the scale one has to switch to &quot;chromatic mode&quot; (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. With only 8 rows that means that not even a single octave fits on the screen any more. I hope that something like accidentals can be implemented where the sharpened&#x2F;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.<p>* Support for microtonal scales<p>* A master compressor<p>All in all the Deluge is a wonderful piece of gear and I wish Synthstrom Audio well. I really hope going Open Source will benefit their business as much as customers are going to benefit from this.