Not sure if you meant the wood side panels are an intentional reference to the Deluge, but if so you may want to know that wood side panels are a common design touch for desktop synths, hearkening back to some of the first compact consumer synths (like the Roland SH-1000), which also had wood side panels.
yeah i even had walnut ones made for my 100m because i didn't like the fake veneer
and the akai timbre wolf, which comes with real simulated wood grain sides
Even the wood on the sides aesthetic is the same.