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Based on the Deluge Manual – Amadeus Edition (draft). Being updated for community firmware up to C1.3.

7.10 Single-cycle Waveforms

Deluge provides several oscillator types but also can take an audio input or audio wave file as its ‘oscillator’. Single-cycle waveforms are best used in a wavetable synth which are then processed in Deluge to create unique and creative oscillator sound source. Single-cycles can be used as a sample but the wavetable synth carries better performance when processing single cycles. If samples are not compatible with the wavetable engine (i.e. stereo) it will load as a sample. The wavetable navigation parameter is not available for single cycles.

The synth engine will automatically set single-cycle waveforms to an oscillator pitch transpose to represent note ‘C’ and set the waveform to loop.

Deluge can also be ‘forced’ to load waveforms above 20mS as single-cycle waveforms.

Loading a single cycle wave as an oscillator

  1. Ensure the SD card has short single-cycle waveforms. These should be 20ms or shorter. Longer ones can be forced to load.
  2. Press Clip to select clip view. This is indicated by the clip button illuminated blue.
  3. Select synth by pressing Synth if not already selected. The synth button illuminates red.
  4. Press the Shift + Type as quick access to shortcut for OSC1. Alternatively use the nested menu options by pressing SelectSelect and navigating to ‘TYPE’.
  5. Press SelectSelect to Select TYPE and turn Turn SelectSelect to navigate to select ‘WAVE’.
  6. Use Back/Undo to exit and back out.
  7. Pressing SelectSelect choose Oscillator 1 (or Oscillator 2) and press SelectSelect again.
  8. turn Turn SelectSelect to navigate to ‘FILE BROWSER’.
  9. Pressing SelectSelect while ‘FILE BROWSER’ is in-focus will open the option to browse and select a sample, ‘BOTTOM-TO-TOP’ will appear on the display to indicate the bottom-to-top note range for the sample.
  10. Press SelectSelect again to enter the sample browser.
  11. Navigate samples and folders by turning SelectSelect and select the folder containing the single-cycles. Highlight the wave to select in-focus. The sample will audition and an illustration of the sample will be mapped across the grid.
  12. To force loading a longer (>20mS) sample as a single-cycle press & hold SelectSelect to bring the synth context menu options up:
    • SINGLE : forces single-cycle load.
    • MULTISAMPLE : all folder samples.
    • BASIC : basic mode where no pitch analysis or single cycle setting.
  13. Press SelectSelect to load the sample as the oscillator wave.