Clone your gear into the Deluge

The Synthstrom Audible Deluge makes it very easy to sample other gear and convert the sounds into new synthesizer presets.
Please let me know if you have questions, comments or ideas for future videos, and thank you for watching.
0:00 Intro
1:40 Gear and setup
2:10 Sampling to create a new synth
3:35 Editing the waveform start and end points
4:50 Creating a melodic sequence
6:50 Modifying the synth sounds
8:30 Adding an Audio track for external (line-in) sounds
10:15 Adding a Kit track for sidechain audio ducking
11:45 Closing thoughts
12:45 The final result

[@aaronbridgeman5634]

A Deluge update with an integrated auto sampler to take advantage of its handling of multi samples would be huge

[@simon_jakobsson]

Yeah, that would be incredible. Fingers crossed :)

[@RJ_Eckie]

I’m honestly surprised that isn’t in there yet! I would love an autosampler

[@aardvarkmindshank]

It’s been proposed now that the software is open source. I think it will come eventually.

[@calebporzio1]

Hey Simon, just wanted to say that I patiently await every video of yours and absolutely love your content! You have the most interesting and in-depth Deluge content on KZbin. Keep it up!

[@simon_jakobsson]

Wow man, thanks a lot for this, it made my day :)

[@davidlynch4338]

Thanks for the videos man! I always pick up a cool trick from your tutorials that I seem to miss in the manual. Cheers!

[@simon_jakobsson]

I'm glad, thanks for watching :)

[@ProfessorSynth]

Great tip. Thanks Simon.

[@simon_jakobsson]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@Maxmachtmusik]

Hey Simon, nice video! I really like your way of explaining. Keep it coming 🖖

[@simon_jakobsson]

Thank you very much, will do! :)

[@dwellerinblack7816]

I've been doing this with all my vsts so I can have a DAWless setup 😎

[@simon_jakobsson]

Damn, that's smart! I might do that, too :) Thanks for watching!

[@dwellerinblack7816]

@@simon_jakobsson It's super time consuming but it's worth it!

[@GanjaBabyy]

That's been the Best decision I've ever made, l got Mac mini and some vsts. Plus my kontakt. I have access to hundreds of thousands of sounds. I just sample the loop of it alll..👏🤗🔌

[@LordWiggle]

Hi, I have a handy tip for you: When you recorded a sound, press SHIFT+MODE (bottom left). You can change it from cut to stretch, once and loop. When you select 'loop', go into waveform view, hold the green bar in and press next (right) to it to set start point of the loop. Do the same with the red bar, but left to it. Place the loop beginning and end on the same position of a wave to remove the click. Now your sound plays as long as you hold the button :) Setting it to 'Once' is handy for recording sounds for a drum kit so it plays the entire sound when the key is pressed, no matter the duration. Also, to save it as a synth, press SAVE+SYNTH. I save them all as 'Z Crave string 01', 'Z Crave pluck 01', 'Z Neutron Bass 01' so when I want to select a previous recording, I only have to scroll down once (hence the 'Z') when selecting synths to reach all my recordings and see them categorized on synthesizer.

[@simon_jakobsson]

This is excellent, thanks for sharing :)

[@tblv9300]

good idea

[@simon_jakobsson]

Glad you liked it - thanks for watching!

[@iosmusicman]

Nice one 👍 I thought I’d previously subbed, but I have now. Cheers. Lee

[@simon_jakobsson]

Much appreciated, thanks man 🙏

[@Vussian]

this guy is cool👍

[@simon_jakobsson]

You're too kind, thanks Jen.

[@rayderrich]

I like your style of presenting but would appreciate the synth to be less loud so I can focus more on what you are explaining. Thanks for another video.

[@simon_jakobsson]

Thank you for watching, and thank you for the helpful feedback :)

[@aardvarkmindshank]

Cool, I learned a few things from this. Would like to know how to lay out multisamples across the keyboard.

[@88yttam]

Thanks for sharing your insight. How would you make a multisample with this setup? I'm confused as to the next step to add an additional, say, octave sample to my synth. Also, how do you define what is controlling the sidechain? Is it the 'send' button? Is it because the factory kits have already non-zero values of the sidechain sends that you didn't need to do anything but turn up the sidechain value on the synth? 🎵

[@simon_jakobsson]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, from my understanding the Kits are the default sidechain sends (but that this can be changed), and so as long as you have a Kit track with notes, all you need to do is dial up the Sidechain on the tracks you want to be affected. I'm not sure about the multisamples, maybe that's something I'll look into next. Thanks again :)

[@RJ_Eckie]

@@simon_jakobsson ​ +1 on the multisamples. I’ve been trying to research it but didn’t get very far. I’d prefer to do maybe 2 samples per octave as well if possible, instead of all notes separately

[@melokit-music]

Coooool ^_^

[@simon_jakobsson]

Thanks :)

[@BombstractGnome]

Good technique for samplers. But if you have the synth sitting there, you might as well midi up. Pitching a sample of a synth is a lofi version of actually synthesizing a frequency

[@simon_jakobsson]

Of course, it's fun to do both!

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

This is illegal and I'm reporting you to the synth patch lobby. Good job anyway, you patch pirate! (Yes, I've been drinking a bit while I re-arrange and re-wire my studio). Thumbs up!

[@simon_jakobsson]

Lol thanks for watching, and have fun with the studio party!

[@jnwarnotte2479]

Is there an easy way like this to create sample drum kit ?

[@simon_jakobsson]

Yes! I made a video a while back where I do that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpnLhWuXj7lqm7M

[@jnwarnotte2479]

@@simon_jakobsson super, thank you. I like your videos.

[@simon_jakobsson]

@@jnwarnotte2479 I'm glad! Thanks for watching!

[@EarlyMist]

Its a good way to 'freeze' your external gear but you immediately lose the filters and other modulation capabilities of that gear. I guess as long as you are happy to work with the Deluges internal modulation and filters etc then good to go. I used to do this with my amalog gear into my Yammy SU700 and a3000 many moons ago, but immediately knowimg I now rely on the internal filters etc of those digital sounding units.

[@simon_jakobsson]

Great point! You're absolutely right, but as a starting point it works well, especially with less complex sounds. I had a lot of fun sampling my old Casio MT600 synth, where there were little to no effects or evolving sounds. Thanks for watching, and for your comment.

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Cool thing about the Deluge though is that it has a battery, so you can sample, then take it somewhere, without needing to bring along other gear and cables. Imagine sampling a Sequential synth, then playing around with it in the park, on the bus, in the local cafe, etc. Of course, an iPad offers something similar, with even more possibilities, but without the Deluge tactile interface.

[@wiegraf9009]

Fair but you can also run the Deluge through an effects unit and then use the resampling function to capture that. It's not the same but that's not necessarily bad.

[@LameUsername20]

Reminds me of Plantasia

[@simon_jakobsson]

I haven't heard them, but I'll check them out. Thanks for watching :)