I've had my deluge for 2 days and I am so grateful to have found your videos and be learning from them. I don't think I've ever had such a cohesive and complete explanation of anything I've learned online before!
Awesome! You're going to love it! I'll hopefully be covering the new community firmware soon (maybe early next year if all goes well). Hope you have fun with it!
@RSKT_music love the way you explain stuff, super clear. You just saved me from going insane. According to the manual, I should be able to move tracks in song view by "press and hold audition pad of the selected row to move + turn scroll (up/down)", but that's just not the case. Viewing your video, I found I actually need to press and hold a pad of the clip itself, not the "audition" pad.
Glad you found it useful! I definately got a bit confused with parts of the manual myself back in the day. Haha, reading through the open source stuff is no picnic either 😅
Man, the sections part was super useful... Thanks for the clean and concise videos. Really appreciate the effort! What's funny about the Deluge is that it pops little colors on the pads, or the occasional 'can't' message, but it doesn't really block you from making your track. Then I watch one of your vids, or check the PDF manual, and get an instant 'aha!'
I've had my deluge for 2 days and I am so grateful to have found your videos and be learning from them. I don't think I've ever had such a cohesive and complete explanation of anything I've learned online before ❤
I plan on it! It's been a busy few weeks here lately. I'm trying to source some decent lights because I wasn't happy with the quality of my latest CV video for the series, and I want the community firmware one to look good!
18:29 "It goes straight back into our drum row" - I noticed this only works if the drum row follows the fill row (in other words, is underneath the fill row). If the drum row is above the fill row, no more drums play afterwards. (You may have said this 😅)
That is correct! Sorry, I should have made that clearer. It's worth noting that the new beta firmware features "fill clips" and "once clips" as options too, which I find a lot more useful. Fill clips will start playing when it knows the 'end' of the loop will sync up with what's already playing. Once clips will play once and then cut out. I find these way more useful!
Saw a comment from someone somewhere who claimed they’d sold their Deluge because it couldn’t play from a point in the song in arrangement view. Looks like they didn’t watch your video first!
Woah, that's madness. Can't believe they sold it without even checking the manual first. I think a few people aren't sure how to make all of the performance features on the Deluge come together. Hopefully we can fix that with the workflow guide videos :)
Thank you for great videos, they are amazingly helpful :) For me the reason to have two tracks with same instrument that play twice - double tracking. You can have two synths on L and R with slightly different processing with immediately makes stereo image wider, but I'm not sure how often this is used (maybe there are better ways to achieve this with synths 😄)
@@sergeyfilinsky5398 that's... Actually a really good point I've never considered man. Cheers! Resampling something like that would make it sound huge. There's a new MIDI feature in the latest update that let's you loop back midi and play multiple tracks at once from a single track, so this would probably make it even more useful!
@RSKT_music wow, that sounds like actually a huge deal! I have pretty basic knowledge of mixing, but double tracking is something you do almost every time when recording guitar, since it's mono by nature and sounds dull I heard people do it to synths, but it much less popular since you can achieve good width by panning voices and lots of processing After watching, I tried double tracking basic synth with a bit shifted depth on them - it sounded big even with simplest synth on left and right
I got Deluge two days ago and did more stuff than in months, it so much fun to play with 😱 Because of lacking visuals, it makes you focus on actual sound and achieve awesome results by using super basic tools without all the ancy plugins and endless options True genius created this thing
Loving these tutorials, I'm just coming back to the Deluge after a 9 month hiatus and these have been great. When making a new instance of a patch (Playing Clones Together), is that 0A patch now always available, like a new saved preset? Or is it just part of this project? That loading a project at the same tempo tip is AWESOME! One note: When cloning, you don't have to click an empty clip row. If you hold the row you want to clone, you can click the row above/below it even if there is another clip there and it will still work. This is nicer than having to clone in an empty row and then moving the clip (assuming you want your variations next to each other).
Glad to hear they're helping you get back into the swing of things :) I'm not sure if the cloned patch is always available or not! Haha, I never bothered to check, and I don't have my Deluge with me right now. I don't recall coming across patch 0A after creating this video, so I'm going to assume that it's specific to the project. Worth testing if you have the chance, but yeah Yes, you're right about not having to select an empty clip row. For some reason, I always just select an empty one if it's there haha. Old habits I guess.
Thx for the very comprehensive work ! Do you plan to make an episode on the various ways to record (sampling, resampling, overdubbing, multritracking, etc) ? I find myself obliged to dive into the manual regularly on that subject. If you’re searching for ideas for the next tutorial 🥹 Anyway thx for the video ! (I was amazed by the tempo+load function, I totally ignored)
No problem at all! The next several videos are completed already (editing video 9 at the moment and still have lots to film). They'll be released weekly, so I have a bit of wriggle room if I get too busy with work. All of your requested features are included in these videos, except for multitracking. Basically, I'm trying to make this manual a reference on how to use just about every function, but not so much of why to use it. That's partly why this series doesn't contain many great "musical" moments lol. However, once this manual is out of the way, a new little series will launch that primarily focuses on different workflows and techniques, using the deluge with a DAW, how to make songs, how to synthesize drum kits, possibly multitracking, and loads of other stuff. So yeah. Hopefully I'll get to the multitracking for you, but if you have any other ideas, feel free let me know and I'll do my best to cover it :) thanks for tuning in btw!
I can’t say how grateful I am for this series - thank you so much for making it. One thing that I can’t figure out - in song mode, the left row of my audition pads is always red, regardless of if they are muted or not. I can mute them, but they just flash before muting and never change color. Any idea why that might be?
Hmm. that is really weird. Are you talking about the "section" column or the mute/unmute collum? The mute/unmute column should only switch from green to red, unless you hold down "record" to set them up for live looping. The Audition pads should default to blue, and as you add more tracks you can change the colour of them by holing shift+audition pad, to group them into different sections. I guess it could also be possible that you have a faulty unit, but I'm not too sure if that's the case. You might want to take a video of this and put it on the facebook or discord server for the Deluge, and see what other people have to say.
@@RSKT_music thanks - yes I’m talking about the mute/unmute column. They’re just always red, even when they are unmuted. I’ll definitely try the forums!
Oh right!@@jaguarvssnake Wow, that's certainly not normal. Not sure why that's happened, but maybe a factory reset could fix it? Just make sure to back up your SD card before doing so.
Hi thanks so much for the video - so clear and I learned A LOT! Hope you don’t mind some questions… Trying to make all the notes in a kit the same colour was a bit challenging as when the notes are entered in they are different colours and when I try to change the colour of one it affects all the others - but not important really! The clone function is great but only allows me one clone and then the message of file flashes and so maybe only one clone allowed do you think?. I really would like to fade the volume of synth and drum kit tracks up with a midi controller instead of toggling them on and off - this works fine with the synth as the master volume button can be learned. When it gets to the kits - when learning the master button it only relates to one sound in the kit and not the whole kit. This is even when affect entire is on. Do you have a good way of fading up drum kit clips ? The volume of the whole drum kit is easy to tweak when in clip view but I haven’t found a way to midi learn this knob? Thanks so much - sorry for so many questions! Cheers
Hey, thanks so much for the kind words! I'll do my best to answer your questions :) 1 - To change colours of individual drum rows, hold shift + audition pad, then twist the bottom navigation knob. 2 - You should be able to make multiple clones of clips, so I'm not sure what's happening there. Is the "file" message only coming up when you try to make clones play at the same time? If so, clone your clip, follow the steps to have it play alongside the original, then clone the newly created clip. Sorry I'm not much more help with this one. 3 - As for fading, there's a couple of things you can do. A lot of this will be covered in a later workflow video, and in the upcoming Arranger Mode video. However, one thing you could try is making several clips that you want to fade in, automate their volume rising (you could also use an LFO for this if you didn't want to do it by hand), and then que the full volume clips to start playing once those are done. I personally find that way a bit annoying to perform with. So the way I would do it (and this is demonstrated in the Arranger Mode video coming soon) is to arrange your fades in the Arranger Mode, let it play out and then jump into song mode and keep performing. Doing things this way allows you to perform with both arranger and song mode, and it's great for manipulating the effects of more that one track at once! I'm sorry if this explanation doesn't make a lot of sense, but don't worry it will all be clear when the Arranger Mode video comes out. Anyways, I hope I've helped in some way. Definitely keep practicing and thanks again for tuning in to the series :)
You can set something to play a set number of times, but if you want to sequence sections you're better off using the arranger view for that. You can jump back and forth between song view and arranger view while performing too, which is super helpful :)
Hey, so after owning this thing for over a year, your tutorials have me finally wrapping my head around it. Really good stuff. I have my Deluge in front of me and will pause the vid to follow along/try out your lesson. ONE thing that has stumped me on this episode is the "drum fill" or "alt take/play once"-thing. Every time I do it, the other tracks are muted during the fill. What am I missing?
Oh wait! I know what you're referring to now. From memory, I think it will move onto whatever section is underneath the section you've defined a loop for, so make sure it's above the upcoming section. I hope that helps, feel free to hit me up if you still can't get it working :)
@@RSKT_music The clip title is "section loops" and the time stamp (within the clip) is at 18:25. On your example, you already have the other tracks muted...so it's hard to pin point where I f'd up. On my testing, I did have my "fill" above the primary drum track (I've been following your actions pretty closely...to the point of recreating your tracks by looking at a paused frame, when I can). If the answer isn't something that is easily recallable for you, don't sweat it. I'm not going to ever use this live in a DJ/live improv type situation. It was just that it was the first thing that stumped me. Thanks again for your vids and super thanks for your quick responses.
@@TheLordcasio ah, I see. Yeah that's really weird tbh. Check out page 146 of the official manual (the last section). That's pretty much what I was following to make that part. In truth though, I never use the feature haha, so sorry that I can't elaborate further.
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I've had my deluge for 2 days and I am so grateful to have found your videos and be learning from them. I don't think I've ever had such a cohesive and complete explanation of anything I've learned online before!
Thanks so much for saying that! I really appreciate it. Glad to hear this is helping you learn the Deluge :)
Your Deluge videos should be official, they are perfect.
Haha thanks, I appreciate the kind words.
Damn, that clone function opens new possibilities for me!
So happy to hear that! :) Thanks for watching
I will receive my Deluge next tuesday! I'll try to watch this entire series by then. Thanks for your amazing work!
Awesome! You're going to love it! I'll hopefully be covering the new community firmware soon (maybe early next year if all goes well). Hope you have fun with it!
@RSKT_music love the way you explain stuff, super clear. You just saved me from going insane. According to the manual, I should be able to move tracks in song view by "press and hold audition pad of the selected row to move + turn scroll (up/down)", but that's just not the case. Viewing your video, I found I actually need to press and hold a pad of the clip itself, not the "audition" pad.
Glad you found it useful! I definately got a bit confused with parts of the manual myself back in the day. Haha, reading through the open source stuff is no picnic either 😅
new to deluge so really liking the series so far, sometimes its the simple things that take the longest to find and get to work
Nice! Glad to hear you enjoying it! It's strange, the Deluge can be so easy to pick up, but it can also go so, so deep.
@@RSKT_music then you spend an hour trying to find how to make it do something really simple like dimming the pads
@@thementalfoundry Hahaha so true
Man, the sections part was super useful... Thanks for the clean and concise videos. Really appreciate the effort! What's funny about the Deluge is that it pops little colors on the pads, or the occasional 'can't' message, but it doesn't really block you from making your track. Then I watch one of your vids, or check the PDF manual, and get an instant 'aha!'
Thanks for the good feedback man! Glad to hear you're getting something out of these videos. Thanks for watching :)
Thank you for these, it’s been steadily getting me going on the Deluge
Glad to hear it! It really is an awesome little box!
Thank you for that first trick! I’ve been wondering how to do that for a while…
No problem! It's a huge time saver :)
These tutorials are pure gold for beginners!
Thanks so much! :)
I've had my deluge for 2 days and I am so grateful to have found your videos and be learning from them. I don't think I've ever had such a cohesive and complete explanation of anything I've learned online before ❤
❤️ Thanks again man
Got my Deluge this week, so perfect timing. Keep them coming! 🤘
Awesome dude! Hope you're enjoying it so far :)
SImply excelent. Fuck, the Deluge is a DEEP machine, you should do an update for the Community FW!
I plan on it! It's been a busy few weeks here lately. I'm trying to source some decent lights because I wasn't happy with the quality of my latest CV video for the series, and I want the community firmware one to look good!
Super helpful, again!😊
Thank you, sir! This is helping me a lot.
No problem at all :)
18:29 "It goes straight back into our drum row" - I noticed this only works if the drum row follows the fill row (in other words, is underneath the fill row). If the drum row is above the fill row, no more drums play afterwards. (You may have said this 😅)
That is correct! Sorry, I should have made that clearer. It's worth noting that the new beta firmware features "fill clips" and "once clips" as options too, which I find a lot more useful. Fill clips will start playing when it knows the 'end' of the loop will sync up with what's already playing. Once clips will play once and then cut out. I find these way more useful!
Saw a comment from someone somewhere who claimed they’d sold their Deluge because it couldn’t play from a point in the song in arrangement view. Looks like they didn’t watch your video first!
Woah, that's madness. Can't believe they sold it without even checking the manual first. I think a few people aren't sure how to make all of the performance features on the Deluge come together. Hopefully we can fix that with the workflow guide videos :)
excellence in presentation................................
Thanks Will! Hope the content is good too lol ;P
Great job structuring these tutorial videos, along with the pace & breadth per vid. Easily understood. A lot of great tips. Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. So happy to hear you are liking the series so far :)
Dude! The quality of your videos is just 🚀
Thanks so much! :D
Thank you 🙏
No problem! :)
Helpful, thank you!
No worries!
Another great tutorial. Thanks again!
Thanks so much for watching!
Awesome job again 👌👍
Thankyou :)
Thank you for great videos, they are amazingly helpful :)
For me the reason to have two tracks with same instrument that play twice - double tracking. You can have two synths on L and R with slightly different processing with immediately makes stereo image wider, but I'm not sure how often this is used (maybe there are better ways to achieve this with synths 😄)
@@sergeyfilinsky5398 that's... Actually a really good point I've never considered man. Cheers! Resampling something like that would make it sound huge. There's a new MIDI feature in the latest update that let's you loop back midi and play multiple tracks at once from a single track, so this would probably make it even more useful!
@RSKT_music wow, that sounds like actually a huge deal!
I have pretty basic knowledge of mixing, but double tracking is something you do almost every time when recording guitar, since it's mono by nature and sounds dull
I heard people do it to synths, but it much less popular since you can achieve good width by panning voices and lots of processing
After watching, I tried double tracking basic synth with a bit shifted depth on them - it sounded big even with simplest synth on left and right
I got Deluge two days ago and did more stuff than in months, it so much fun to play with 😱
Because of lacking visuals, it makes you focus on actual sound and achieve awesome results by using super basic tools without all the ancy plugins and endless options
True genius created this thing
@@sergeyfilinsky5398 couldn't agree more!
Great stuff, cheers for this 👍
Thanks, no worries!
Loving these tutorials, I'm just coming back to the Deluge after a 9 month hiatus and these have been great.
When making a new instance of a patch (Playing Clones Together), is that 0A patch now always available, like a new saved preset? Or is it just part of this project?
That loading a project at the same tempo tip is AWESOME!
One note:
When cloning, you don't have to click an empty clip row. If you hold the row you want to clone, you can click the row above/below it even if there is another clip there and it will still work. This is nicer than having to clone in an empty row and then moving the clip (assuming you want your variations next to each other).
Glad to hear they're helping you get back into the swing of things :)
I'm not sure if the cloned patch is always available or not! Haha, I never bothered to check, and I don't have my Deluge with me right now. I don't recall coming across patch 0A after creating this video, so I'm going to assume that it's specific to the project. Worth testing if you have the chance, but yeah
Yes, you're right about not having to select an empty clip row. For some reason, I always just select an empty one if it's there haha. Old habits I guess.
thank's great tutorial.
No worries! :)
Thx for the very comprehensive work !
Do you plan to make an episode on the various ways to record (sampling, resampling, overdubbing, multritracking, etc) ?
I find myself obliged to dive into the manual regularly on that subject.
If you’re searching for ideas for the next tutorial 🥹
Anyway thx for the video ! (I was amazed by the tempo+load function, I totally ignored)
No problem at all! The next several videos are completed already (editing video 9 at the moment and still have lots to film). They'll be released weekly, so I have a bit of wriggle room if I get too busy with work. All of your requested features are included in these videos, except for multitracking. Basically, I'm trying to make this manual a reference on how to use just about every function, but not so much of why to use it. That's partly why this series doesn't contain many great "musical" moments lol.
However, once this manual is out of the way, a new little series will launch that primarily focuses on different workflows and techniques, using the deluge with a DAW, how to make songs, how to synthesize drum kits, possibly multitracking, and loads of other stuff.
So yeah. Hopefully I'll get to the multitracking for you, but if you have any other ideas, feel free let me know and I'll do my best to cover it :) thanks for tuning in btw!
I actually spent half of the day watching your videos, and found a lot of nice ideas !
Well thank you sir, for sharing your experiences 👍
@@abberom1 Wow man, thanks so much, that really means a lot! :)
I can’t say how grateful I am for this series - thank you so much for making it. One thing that I can’t figure out - in song mode, the left row of my audition pads is always red, regardless of if they are muted or not. I can mute them, but they just flash before muting and never change color. Any idea why that might be?
Hmm. that is really weird. Are you talking about the "section" column or the mute/unmute collum? The mute/unmute column should only switch from green to red, unless you hold down "record" to set them up for live looping. The Audition pads should default to blue, and as you add more tracks you can change the colour of them by holing shift+audition pad, to group them into different sections. I guess it could also be possible that you have a faulty unit, but I'm not too sure if that's the case. You might want to take a video of this and put it on the facebook or discord server for the Deluge, and see what other people have to say.
@@RSKT_music thanks - yes I’m talking about the mute/unmute column. They’re just always red, even when they are unmuted. I’ll definitely try the forums!
Oh right!@@jaguarvssnake Wow, that's certainly not normal. Not sure why that's happened, but maybe a factory reset could fix it? Just make sure to back up your SD card before doing so.
Hi thanks so much for the video - so clear and I learned A LOT! Hope you don’t mind some questions…
Trying to make all the notes in a kit the same colour was a bit challenging as when the notes are entered in they are different colours and when I try to change the colour of one it affects all the others - but not important really! The clone function is great but only allows me one clone and then the message of file flashes and so maybe only one clone allowed do you think?.
I really would like to fade the volume of synth and drum kit tracks up with a midi controller instead of toggling them on and off - this works fine with the synth as the master volume button can be learned. When it gets to the kits - when learning the master button it only relates to one sound in the kit and not the whole kit. This is even when affect entire is on. Do you have a good way of fading up drum kit clips ? The volume of the whole drum kit is easy to tweak when in clip view but I haven’t found a way to midi learn this knob? Thanks so much - sorry for so many questions! Cheers
Hey, thanks so much for the kind words! I'll do my best to answer your questions :)
1 - To change colours of individual drum rows, hold shift + audition pad, then twist the bottom navigation knob.
2 - You should be able to make multiple clones of clips, so I'm not sure what's happening there. Is the "file" message only coming up when you try to make clones play at the same time? If so, clone your clip, follow the steps to have it play alongside the original, then clone the newly created clip. Sorry I'm not much more help with this one.
3 - As for fading, there's a couple of things you can do. A lot of this will be covered in a later workflow video, and in the upcoming Arranger Mode video. However, one thing you could try is making several clips that you want to fade in, automate their volume rising (you could also use an LFO for this if you didn't want to do it by hand), and then que the full volume clips to start playing once those are done. I personally find that way a bit annoying to perform with. So the way I would do it (and this is demonstrated in the Arranger Mode video coming soon) is to arrange your fades in the Arranger Mode, let it play out and then jump into song mode and keep performing. Doing things this way allows you to perform with both arranger and song mode, and it's great for manipulating the effects of more that one track at once! I'm sorry if this explanation doesn't make a lot of sense, but don't worry it will all be clear when the Arranger Mode video comes out.
Anyways, I hope I've helped in some way. Definitely keep practicing and thanks again for tuning in to the series :)
Thanks so much - looking forward to the next video!
@@peacefulpigeon7254 no worries! :)
Brand new to this - can you sequence the different sections so that it will automatically play my verse-chorus-verse-bridge/chorus?
You can set something to play a set number of times, but if you want to sequence sections you're better off using the arranger view for that. You can jump back and forth between song view and arranger view while performing too, which is super helpful :)
Hey, so after owning this thing for over a year, your tutorials have me finally wrapping my head around it. Really good stuff. I have my Deluge in front of me and will pause the vid to follow along/try out your lesson. ONE thing that has stumped me on this episode is the "drum fill" or "alt take/play once"-thing. Every time I do it, the other tracks are muted during the fill. What am I missing?
Thanks so much! I'm not sure what exact part of the video you're talking about, as I haven't watched it in a while. Could you give me the timestamp?
Oh wait! I know what you're referring to now. From memory, I think it will move onto whatever section is underneath the section you've defined a loop for, so make sure it's above the upcoming section. I hope that helps, feel free to hit me up if you still can't get it working :)
@@RSKT_music The clip title is "section loops" and the time stamp (within the clip) is at 18:25. On your example, you already have the other tracks muted...so it's hard to pin point where I f'd up. On my testing, I did have my "fill" above the primary drum track (I've been following your actions pretty closely...to the point of recreating your tracks by looking at a paused frame, when I can). If the answer isn't something that is easily recallable for you, don't sweat it. I'm not going to ever use this live in a DJ/live improv type situation. It was just that it was the first thing that stumped me. Thanks again for your vids and super thanks for your quick responses.
@@TheLordcasio ah, I see. Yeah that's really weird tbh. Check out page 146 of the official manual (the last section). That's pretty much what I was following to make that part. In truth though, I never use the feature haha, so sorry that I can't elaborate further.
@@RSKT_music check your linked email...I might have something for you. (damn...that sounds really suspect, when written down)