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

15.1 Saving & Loading Songs

Songs can be saved and loaded to/from the inserted SD card. Songs can be number 000-999 or named using the alphanumeric grid keyboard. Variations of each saved slot also has sub slots, for example if 000 is used, 000 2 etc will be incrementally offered.

Saving a numbered song

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Save.
  3. The available song slot to save to will be displayed flashing. Type using the keyboard to name song, or press Save to accept suggested title.
  4. Press Save again to save the Song or Back/Undo to back up and exit.
  5. Song will save and return to the previous view.

Saving a named song

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Save.
  3. Songs can be named using the alphanumeric grid keyboard. Subsequent iterations of the song will be automatically created when existing saves exist. Example SONGNAME will also have SONGNAME 2, SONGNAME 3 etc when iterations are saved.
  4. Deleting the name manually using backspace will revert back to the numbering system.
  5. turn Turn SelectSelect to select the slot / name.
  6. Press Save again to save the song or Back/Undo to back up and exit.
  7. Song will save and return to the previous view.

Loading a song

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Load.
  3. The available songs slot to load to will be displayed flashing. Named files and numbered slots between 0-999 are available as well as sub-slots, example 001 3.
  4. turn Turn SelectSelect to select the song required. Hold Shift & turn Turn SelectSelect to skip sub-slots when navigating, - this is only for numbered songs, not named song sub-slots.
  5. The alphanumeric keyboard can be used for selecting named samples.
  6. The songs, while navigating the songs, will be previewed visually on the 16x8 grid.
  7. Press Load again to load the song in focus or Back/Undo to back up and exit.
  8. Song will load.

Deleting a song

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Load.
  3. The available songs will be displayed flashing. Slots between 000-999 are available as well as sub-slots, example 001 3.
  4. turn Turn SelectSelect to select the song required. Hold Shift & turn Turn SelectSelect to skip sub-slots when navigating. The alphanumeric keyboard can be used for selecting named samples.
  5. Press Shift + Save to select song delete mode, indicated by ‘DELETE’ on the display.
  6. Press Save again, or press SelectSelect to delete the song in focus or Back/Undo to back up and exit.

Creating a new blank song

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Shift + Load.
  3. Display will show ‘CLEAR SONG: OK’ indicating a new blank song is about to be created.
  4. Press Load again or press SelectSelect and a new blank song is created, clearing previous data. This is the same as the default empty song at start up.

Loading a song during playback

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Play or make sure the song is playing.
  3. Press Load .
  4. turn Turn SelectSelect to select the song required. Hold Shift & turn Turn SelectSelect to skip sub-slots when navigating. The alphanumeric keyboard can be used for selecting named samples.
  5. Press Load to load the song in-focus. Song will load ready for completion of the existing song playback at which point it will launch. Songs with large sample content may take some time to load.

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  1. Press & hold Load to load and delay arming until fully loaded. ‘LOADING COMPLETE’ will be displayed when song is ready for launch. Releasing the Load button will ‘arm’ the song ready for completion of the existing song loop, showing ‘SONG WILL BEGIN…’ on screen
  2. Arming songs is applied the same way as clips. The countdown can be adjusted using SelectSelect.

Loading a song and retaining existing song tempo

  1. Ensure view is in Song, Clip, [ARRANGER] or Button KeyboardKeyboard.
  2. Press Play or make sure the song is playing.
  3. Press Load .
  4. turn Turn SelectSelect to select the song required.
  5. Press & hold TempoTempo + Load to load the song in-focus at the current tempo.
  6. Depending on the tempo mode will govern how the tempo is managed:
    • Tempo magnitude matching enabled: will apply a multiple of the old song tempo if needed to avoid drastic changes to a new tempo.
    • Synced as a follower: tempo will remain the same irrespective of tempo magnitude matching.

Startup song C1.1

Load next song command C1.3