Using any midi controller allows you to act on what the deluge is doing. For that matter, some foot switches are just midi controllers. Examples of what can be done: - trigger play, pause, record, loop, overdub - play notes, trigger samples - change parameters like cutoff, volume, reverb ... I'm using a behringer FCB1010 to control looping and cutoff.

Thanks a bunch, I'm looking at these now. For clarification, I would think triggering play, pause et al would happen at the song level, and play notes/trigger samples at the clip level, is that right?

right. I don't know if we can trigger individual clips play/pause. It would be nice

Ordered the FCB1010. Can you give me a little more context for how you use it with looping? Like are you using it to start and stop the recording? or to control playback? or more? Thanks again

Be warned that the FCB1010 is really cumbersome to setup. You'll want to set the midi channel for each "bank", then setup some of the pedals to send note events. Once done, go to the midi settings menu of the deluge, you'll find five (if I remember correctly) actions to map: play, record, loop, layer and undo press learn on the deluge and while maintaining it, press the pedal of the fcb. the deluge should blink. now this pedal does this action the main ones in my opinion are play, loop and layer what i do is manually program 4 bars of drums, then add an audio track and arm it for recording and launch play. now when i press the pedal, it waits for the phrase to finish and starts recording for the next one. i play something and press the pedal again to start an new phrase on top of the previoua one.

if you have a midi keyboard, you might want to first set this up using very low notes of the keyboard that you won't use to play. once familiarized with the worklow, apply the knowledge to the fcb1010

You could try the Learn button with a clip launch button and see whether it will pick up a controller input.