Synthstrom Audible Deluge [inc. Open Source development]

I googled that with no luck. Any more info?

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They bought Chompi, I believe?

And I do believe they’ll make a synth out of it and put some of their fx stuff in that synth.

But that’s just what I believe, mind you.

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Chompymood confirmed11!!

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I absolutely love having the Deluge on the music rest of my digital piano (Nord Grand) - I just need to use Logic’s Autosampler to grab some of the Nord sounds to dump into the Deluge for when I’m out and about. Then when I get home I can change a Synth clip to Midi and have the Nord play it, and records those bars in as audio, should I wish.

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This is something I’ve noticed… I get around it by bringing the keyboard up and typing R5 or something to jump to (in this case) some of the Rephazer sounds I bought.

I do like having access to unlimited sounds, vs OP-1 Field which has a hard coded 500 preset limit regardless of storage space. But OP-1 uses folders and so on for sounds presets which make it easier in one way to find and sort things.

I’m not a coder, but have a basic understanding of coding. Would be nice if Deluge could still instantly change sounds when you turn the encoder a few (maybe 1-3) clicks, but if multiple click pulses were detected in a short timeframe it could switch to not attempting to load the sound until say, half a second had passed with no further encoder input, then it would load the sample. Perhaps if 10 or more encoder pulses occurred in a short time the scrolling could jump to values of 6 (like tempo) or 10, to quickly dial through large numbers of patches, eg if you know you want number 192 you could get there quickly, and click encoder if you didn’t want to wait the half second to load that preset.

While this would be a nice little quality of life improvement, I’m over the moon happy with the device with its current beta(alpha) community firmware as it is… it’s just really cool.

Will be selling my Pyramid shortly… sure it’s technically more capable for midi sequencing in a bunch of ways, CV input to midi is handy, midi LFO’s, 48 midi output channels etc. But I have little interest in that workflow after using the Deluge. I only wish the Deluge was magically 12 pads high vs 8, without being physically larger or having smaller pads. That’s not happening haha

You probably know already but you can have folders on Deluge.

I have thousands of presets, much easier when they’re split into folders!

:exploding_head: nope! Didn’t know. I read moving things around causes issues but that’s probably just samples linked to presets I guessed. Will folderize my presets immediately, thank you :grin:

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Yea moving things around is really just an issue when you’re moving samples around as the sample file path is in the preset.

This is the video that got me to seriously consider the Deluge (I didn’t want an OP-XY anyway, and still don’t, but was learning about it when it came out) and the first video that got me to see how far the Deluge had come, and no more LED digit display. Very fun video, best if you’ve seen TE’s OP-XY launch teaser to get some of the jokes :slight_smile:

Ok, can stop spamming the thread with replies to ancient things now, I’ve caught up! Read the whole thing.

Loving my Deli on 1.3 beta/alpha.

Pic is from about a week ago. Made a Y cable to run two little good sounding powered speakers, for when there’s room for something like that like in this park.

Last night I tried it with the JV-1010, monitoring audio coming in and sending midi out, used the old vocal card with its velocity switched scat stuff. Fun :slight_smile: I think I’ll multi sample a lot of my romplers (with effects off) and recreate patches close to the originals, so I can take those sounds with me. (Not specially this scat sound, it’s just fun :slight_smile:

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Does anyone know, when in a synth patch you can set an oscillator to audio input. This is great, except is there a way to turn of repitching?

Because it repitches the incoming audio in real time, which is super wild, but I don’t want that. I just want to run external audio through the filters and envelopes and effects, envelopes opening when playing etc.

Set source to stereo with no dot

On 1.3 community at least the oscillator source list is the normal waves, dx7, sample, left right and stereo.

I still want envelopes, filter etc to open with midi / note input… just not to repitch the incoming audio.

If you’re using an external input as the oscillator and don’t want the pitch to change with each note, just use C3 for every MIDI note.

Yes, but then I can’t sequence the external synth on the Deluge :slight_smile: - and also can’t play it in real time.
Anyway I asked on the discord and they suggested a few things. I then found a work around:
Have a midi clip to send the midi out.
Have a kit clip the same length with notes of exactly the same timing on a single kit row, and make that kit row the external oscillator input with the modulation envelopes effects and so on. This works, but it clunky.

You might also try the following:

  • OSC1 Transpose = -4 (adjust this if the base pitch shifts with the settings below)
  • OSC1 Transpose + Note Modulation = -50
  • Master Transpose + Note Modulation = -34.33

With these settings, you should get the same pitch no matter which note you play.

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Ooh! Will try! I wonder if it’ll get phased multiple copies of notes….
I tried Modulating the transpose with Note but only went to 50 cents. Didn’t know about master too.

It works!

Super phasey and interesting effect sort of sound to it, but it does retain the pitch.

Fascinating.

A bit of music to share :slight_smile:

Last night I started with a blank patch and added some PWM and slow LFO to change a few things including the filter, some drive, saturation… and was having some fun. Programmed some basic drums with a stock kit and used a stock lead sound, resampled a Song mode performance and here we are. Very quick to get results on Deluge. I’m perfectly happy with the sound quality too. Running 1.3 beta.

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