This is something I've found to generally be the case, hardware synths just generally have nicer workflows than DAWs. The common response you hear to pro-hardware is that a DAW can do so much more, to which I always think that may be true, but it doesn't matter how much the software can do, it matters how much you can do with the software. The closest I've come to a hardware like DAW is Renoise or Drambo (for iOS devices), but even they're missing something for me.

I've never tried the Deluge myself, but I would really like to.