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Index
Part 1: Getting Started
1 Overview
1.1 How to Use This Manual
1.2 What’s in the Box
1.3 Hardware Overview
1.4 System Architecture
2 Basics
2.1 Power Up
2.2 General Operating Controls
2.3 Views
2.4 Menus
2.5 File Browser
2.6 Alphanumeric Keyboard & Grid Layout
2.7 Custom Parameter Affect Controls
2.8 Accessibility
Part 2: Clips & Sequencing
3 Clips
3.1 Synths and Kits
3.2 Clip View: Overview
3.3 Creating a Clip
3.4 Presets
3.5 Transferring Presets Between Deluge Devices
3.6 Naming Clips & Tracks
3.7 Clip Colour
3.8 Clip Length & Position
3.9 Copying, Cloning & Deleting Clips
3.10 Clip Modes
3.11 Clip View: Parameter Affect Group Changes
4 Sequencing
4.1 Sequencing Workflow
4.2 Playing a Sequence
4.3 Tempo & Swing
4.4 Recording Pattern Sequences
4.5 Note Characteristics
4.6 Note and Note Row Editor
4.7 Note Creativity: Probability & Iteration Dependance
4.8 Note Scales
4.9 Transposing
4.10 Navigating the Grid
4.11 Cross-Screen Editing
4.12 Copy & Paste Notes and Rows
4.13 Euclidean Sequencing
4.14 Randomizer
4.15 Save & Load Patterns
5 Keyboard Views
5.1 Keyboard View & Chords
5.2 Alternate Drum Pad Grid View
6 Automation
6.1 Parameter Automation Basics
6.2 Parameter Automation View
6.3 Velocity View
Part 3: Sounds
7 Synthesizers
7.1 Synthesizer Creation Workflow
7.2 Synthesizer Concepts
7.3 Synthesizer Clip Parameters
7.4 Creating a New Synthesizer
7.5 Sound Editor - Synthesizer Parameters
7.6 Oscillators
7.7 Filters
7.8 DX7 Synth
7.9 Deluge Voices
7.10 Single-cycle Waveforms
7.11 Sampling into a Synth Instrument
8 Arpeggiator
8.1 Arpeggiator
9 Kits
9.1 Kit Creation Workflow
9.2 Kit Basics
9.3 Kit FX Menu & Affect Entire
9.4 Kit Presets & Samples
9.5 Sampling & Recording Audio within Kits
10 Modulation
10.1 Modulation Routing Basics
10.2 Modulation Routing Advanced
10.3 Envelopes and Low Frequency Oscillators
10.4 Other Modulation Sources
11 Effects
11.1 Effects Architecture
11.2 Effects Overview
11.3 Sidechain Compressor
11.4 Distortion Effects
11.5 EQ - Equalisation
11.6 Delay
11.7 Reverb
11.8 Modulation Effects
11.9 Stutter Effect
11.10 Effects in Session View
Part 4: Arranging & Performing
12 Session View
12.1 Song Workflow
12.2 Session View Basics
12.3 Working in Session Row View
12.4 Working in Session Grid View
12.5 Launching
12.6 Song Menu
12.7 Song Macros
12.8 Session View Settings
13 Performance View
13.1 Performance View
14 Arranger View
14.1 Typical Arranger Workflow
14.2 Arranger relationship with the other views
14.3 Arranger View Basics
14.4 White Pads for Variations
14.5 Arranger View - Advanced
14.6 Capturing an entire Song session into Arranger View
15 Songs & Files
15.1 Saving & Loading Songs
15.2 Collect Media Function
15.3 SD Card Layout
15.4 Audio Export
Part 5: Audio & Looping
16 Audio
16.1 Typical Sampling / Recording Workflow
16.2 Getting Audio Into Deluge
16.3 Loading Samples from SD Card into Audio Clips
16.4 Deleting Samples
16.5 Audio Inputs
16.6 Recording into Audio Clips in Session View
16.7 Recording into Audio Clips in Arranger View
16.8 Threshold Recording
16.9 Quick Editing Audio in Clip View
16.10 Resampling Deluge Output
16.11 Waveform View & Detailed Audio Editing
16.12 Sample Playback Modes
16.13 Live Audio Input
16.14 Time-Stretching & Pitch Shifting
17 Looping
17.1 Deluge Looping Overview
17.2 Looper Workflow
17.3 Basic Looping
17.4 Using a Foot Controller
17.5 Audio Loop Margins
17.6 Instrument Loop Recording
Part 6: Connecting
18 MIDI
18.1 MIDI Connections
18.2 MIDI Hardware Configuration
18.3 MIDI In
18.4 Global MIDI Commands
18.5 MIDI Follow & Feedback
18.6 Tempo Magnitude Matching
18.7 Sync-scaling
18.8 MIDI Out Settings
18.9 MIDI Out Controls
18.10 MIDI Out within Kits & Songs
18.11 Overview of MIDI MPE and Polyphonic Aftertouch
18.12 MPE Application for MIDI Input in Deluge
18.13 Setting Up MIDI MPE
18.14 MIDI MPE Output
18.15 SysEx & Lumi
19 CV
19.1 CV — Introduction
19.2 CV Connections & Compatibility
19.3 CV Hardware Configuration
19.4 CV & Gate Out
19.5 CV General Settings
19.6 CV Out within Kits & Songs
20 USB Host
20.1 USB Host Mode for Devices
Part 7: System
21 Settings & System
21.1 System Settings
21.2 Community Features Menu
21.3 Updating Deluge Firmware
21.4 Deluge Pad Colours
21.5 Deluge CPU Performance
21.6 OLED Display
Appendices
Appendix A: Quick Reference Commands
Appendix B: Factory Library
Appendix C: Deluge Legacy Shortcuts 1.0
Appendix D: Acknowledgments
Appendix E: Community Guide (OS 4.1)
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