TL;DR: I am looking for a centerpiece for my various hardware instruments, especially a grid-based sequencer. I'd be interested on your thoughts on the Deluge, mainly as a sequencer/brain and perhaps sampler.

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Hello there!

Around 7 years ago I started dabbling around with various musical gear and it has been the one and only hobby in my life that has ever stuck.

I love jamming around and just do it for the fun of it.

That being said, the past 2 years I have developed a love/hate relationship with the entire thing: So far, grooveboxes have clicked the most with my brain and have given me the most fun.

The Novation Circuit has been one of my first pieces and while I loved fooling around with it, I didn't enjoy the soundengine a lot and quickly hit it's limitations.

Then the Synakt came along, which I still love very much, but it is lacking in polyphony.

And no matter which kind of gear I have used, I always get stuck in loop-land.

I have tried to work in my DAW (Ableton) plenty of times and while I…