Release 1.1.0 (Beethoven)

The community firmware development team is pleased to announce the release of the 1.1 Beethoven community firmware!

As always, we strongly recommend backing up your SD card before updating firmware versions.

This release has a number of new features and bug fixes throughout the Deluge. Major features are highlighted here, but be sure to check out the changelog for a comprehensive list of everything that has been added, changed, and fixed. For more detailed descriptions of all the new features added by the community firmware, please read the community features guide document. If you're coming from the official firmware, welcome! We encourage you to read through the 1.0 (Amadeus) release notes as well.

Changes from 1.0

• Changing a preset in song or arranger view now changes all clips using that preset. Changing the preset in clip view still only changes just that clip.
• Toggling interpolation mode in Automation View is now done using the INTERPOLATION shortcut on the grid.
• Toggling automation selection mode is now done using the waveform shortcut on the grid
• Automation View can now be entered by pressing CLIP while in the menu for any modulatable parameter, including patch cables.
• SHIFT + ▼︎▲︎ in clips now keeps notes in-scale rather than transposing chromatically.
• Compressor gain staging has been adjusted and slight saturation added to help avoid clipping.
• The default MODFX is now DISABLED rather than FLANGER. Since the flanger has no audible impact when at the default (0) depth this should have no impact on sound while providing a minor performance improvement.

Major new features

Sound design features

• A new reverb model based on Émilie Gillet's Rings, with some modifications and tuning to fit into the Deluge. The previous model based on Freeverb is still available, so the reverb sound of existing songs should remain unchanged. Reverb model is switchable for both old and new songs under the SOUND > FX > REVERB > MODEL menu.
• All tracks now have compressors, in addition to the master song compressor. This includes 2 levels of compression in kits, one for each row and one for the kit itself. Compressor parameters are available under the SOUND > COMPRESSOR menu and can be learned to the gold knobs with the same shortcut as other parameters (hold LEARN/INPUT and turn the knob you want to overwrite while in the menu you want to learn).
• The arpeggiator has been dramatically expanded, with support for rhythms, ratches, and individual control over octave and note arpeggiation direction.
• Songs can now be in 5, 6, or 7 note scales. With this addition we support 8 additional scales: Melodic Minor, Hungarian Minor, Marva (Indian), Arabian, Whole Tone, Blues, Pentatonic Minor, Hirajoshi.

Performance features

• New Performance View, accessible by pressing the KEYBOARD button in Song Rows or Arranger views or the lower right (pink mode) pad in Song Grid view. Provides fader-like control over song level parameters. For more details on using and configuring this view, see the dedicated feature documentation.
• A new launch mode has been added to the sequencer, ONCE. ONCE clips play a single time and then mute themselves.
• Song level parameters can now be automated using the Automation View interface by pressing SHIFT+SONG from song or arranger views.
• New sidebar controls in the keyboard view, with velocity (red), mod wheel (blue), chords (green), chord memory (cyan), and scale (yellow) modes available by holding the top pad and turning the horizontal encoder.
• A VU meter is now available in the song view. It can be toggled by by tapping the LEVEL/PAN mod button while that button is already lit and affect-entire is enabled. Once the level reaches the red squares the system is at risk of clipping internally, so you should aim to keep song level in the green or yellow regions through compositional techniques or by adjusting clip/song level.

MIDI Features

• New MIDI Follow features which directs MIDI data to the currently active clip. This feature attempts to provide reasonable default MIDI mappings for CCs as well as notes by default. For more complete documentation, please see the dedicated MIDI Follow docs. It's possible that this feature may activate mistakenly if you've played with nightlies or beta releases in the past, so if your Deluge is unexpectedly responding to MIDI events please check the MIDI follow document for how to configure this feature.
• A number of rough edges in MIDI support have been smoothed over, including the addition of PC message support for MIDI learnable control, various mappings to improve the consistency of MPE and monophonic expression parameters, and more. Please see the MIDI section of the changelog for details.

Bugs & Feedback

If you find bugs in this release, we'd love to know about them! Either report them here on GitHub or drop us a line on Discord in the #nightly-testing channel.

Contributors <3

Thanks to all the new contributors to this release!

@Azenet
@baymud
@busa-projects
@colinmeyer
@cowboy
@joxihan
@M0R172
@nikodemus
@pmatila
@robmccoll
@scy
@sichtbeton
@tastycode