4.5 Note Characteristics

Several basic characteristics of notes can be changed in settings. These include, velocity, note repeat, note length, quantization and note scales. Some of these can be edited in the sequencer.

Changing a recorded synth note velocity

1. After a pattern has been recorded, notes will be at a default velocity level.
2. Press & hold one or more Pad’s for the note to change and turn Horizontal.
3. The system default velocity is 64, however the velocity used on the last note entry / edited will be applied to the next note entered.
4. Velocity will be displayed and its value.

Deluge pads are not velocity sensitive. The default velocity is 64 but this default level can be changed in the settings options under the defaults menu.

C1.3 Velocity shown as brightness. Unwritten: you can help by adding content.

See Velocity Rendering.

Setting a note to repeat

1. After a pattern has been recorded, notes will be trigger individually
2. Hold Pad + Press & turn Vertical. Pad is the note to repeat.
3. The value selected will determine the number of repeats to assign to the selected note, positioned equally in the time interval of the pad.

Changing the default recording quantization

Quantization sets the accuracy and resolution of how close to the grid intervals notes are placed.

1. Open the settings menu by pressing Shift + Select.
2. Turn the Select control to navigate the menu to select RECORDING
3. Press Select to drill down the recording menu.
4. Turn the Select control to navigate the menu and select QUANTIZATION in focus.
5. Press Select to drill to the quantization settings.
6. turn Select to choose between off (384th), 4 bar, 2 bar, 1 bar, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 16th, 32nd and 64th note intervals. A value of 32nd is the default setting.
7. Press Back/Undo to back out of the menu when the parameter has been changed or at any time in the menu to back up.
8. The quantization chosen will ensure tight alignment on the grid based on the time interval chosen when recording live.

Quantizing / humanizing instrument clip rows

This is a destructive process and the option is set ON by default in the Settings > Community Features.

1. Select Clip view, button lit blue.
2. Hold the Audition + turn Tempo clockwise to quantize the selected row or counter clockwise to humanize the selected row.
3. Hold any Audition Pad + Press & turn Tempo clockwise to quantize the all rows or counter clockwise to humanize all rows.

Triplet view

1. Press Triplets View to select. The button will be illuminated blue.
2. The grid will change to reflect triplets view by showing columns of 3 rather than 4 as is normal.
   • The unused 4th column is blanked out and is shown by a grey dull colour when showing 16th notes.
   • Zooming will carry over the triplets view in the original time division.
   • To set triplets view in a different time division, exit triplets view, change the grid time division and return to triplets view.
   • A triplet in musical terms would mean 3 notes play for the same time division as 4.
3. Program note sequence as desired.
4. Press Triplets View to exit. Button is unlit and the grid view changes back to normal.

Editing notes’ length

1. Note lengths can be set when entering clip notes by pressing the note START Pad + END Pad on the same row. For kits, samples will automatically map across the pads matching the sample length.

2. Reduce the note length by pressing one of the extension Pad’s to shorten it.
3. To extend a note across grid views:
   • Press the Pad for the note start.
   • Scroll to the next grid view ‘page’ using Horizontal. This would be further in time from the original note.
   • On the same row, press Horizontal + Pad at the end position.
   • The note will be extended across the ‘page’.
4. To create a note for the duration of the clip, for example as a pad or to create a ‘drone’ note:
   • Press the Pad for the note start on the first column (left position) of the clip.
   • On the same row, press Horizontal + Pad at the last column (right position).
   • The note will be extended across the full clip.
   • Deluge will ensure that these type of notes play continuously through the clip and will loop. This is handled as a special case and the note does not restart.

Nudging individual notes horizontally

1. Hold Pad + Press and turn Horizontal to nudge the selected Pad note event forward or backwards, indicated by +/- values.
2. This will nudge at the song’s minimum resolution, default is 384th notes.

Copying / pasting note range

1. Press Learn/Input + Horizontal to copy the clips notes.
   • This will copy the step range of notes in the current view on the grid at the current scroll and zoom position.
   • The time range of notes is what is copied including all notes out of view above and below the pad range.
   • Copy can be performed from one clip to another in the same or different songs as well as within the same clip.
2. Select the new location for pasting the previously copied range. For example extend the clip length or scroll to another part of the clip.
3. Press Shift + Learn/Input + Horizontal to paste the current clips notes:
   • When pasting, the notes are pasted into the current view.
   • If the destination view is transposed from the original copied location the notes are pasted into the new transposed position.
   • If only a part of the grid is selected as the destination, the notes for the available columns are pasted and the rest discarded.
   • Notes will be pasted into any new zoom levels where notes will be stretched or reduced to meet the destination zoom view.

See also

• Adjusting a clips horizontal note event position: 3.7 Clip Length & Position
• Clearing clip notes: 3.8 Copying, Cloning & Deleting Clips