I've been moderately successful learning puredata over the last couple of years (e.g. a real fairly successful professional electronic musician (arty side, not commrecial side) has picked up one of my patches to do something with, and we've got a dialog going where I help him out with some conceptual stuff around programming and open source, and he helps me out with practical aspects.

Meanwhile last time I was in NZ a few weeks ago I checked the classifieds - partly to see if there was a used deluge at a good price nearby, but unfortnuately I blew more than double that budget on an amazing soprano sax that happened to be nearby instead :/

Which is a long winded way of saying that I'm looking forward to seeing the deluge's code to see how they're running things inside the box.