Red Means Recording Livestream - Synthstrom Deluge

Hello! Let's explore the Synthstrom Deluge and talk about stuff.
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[@loopop]

Great to see the Deluge getting some RMR love!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Learned a lot watching your vids

[@loopop]

Thanks - Likewise ;)

[@ToyKeeper]

You two have made the most interesting and educational videos about this fascinating device. Thanks!

[@DoloJones]

+Red Means Recording (Jeremy Leaird-Koch) +loopop thanks to both of you guys for being instrumental (pun intended) in putting tonnes of us onto a lot of great gear/technique! Deluge is amazing, got it very recently and just posted my first track, so inspiring to use! Cheers!

[@joriskunkeler1959]

Besides 1 Dorian Minor is also my favourite, besides 2 I find this machine very substantial in the evolution of music, since it makes making music for people with talent and creativity whom are not seasoned instrumentalists, or do not play an acoustic instrument at all. Ring modulation, is reviewed now, thus it is a Moog in a Korg in a Roland, or a synth in a modular system in a mixer in a effect processor in a computer with 64 GB ram. Haha

[@JackAcid]

I've been waiting for 4 weeks for my MC707 to arrive. yesterday, I discovered this machine. Result: canceled the MC 707. And bought this immediately. This is the all-in-one beatbox I've been looking for.

[@JackAcid]

Update: THE BEST DECISION I EVER MADE. This thing is astounding.

[@1heUndertaker]

@@JackAcid 🐾I agree ! ! ! 🐾

[@ConsciousBrosCommunity]

@@JackAcid Fucc yeah!!

[@Darqion]

@@JackAcid Hey sorry to bother you :P i've been looking for a groovebox and mc707 and deluge are both on my shortlist, so to speak.. I've heard the mc707 has a way better synth engine, and having more active controls on the unit might be nice, but what about the deluge makes you so happy with your choice ?? it does look real easy to get the basics down on deluge atleast, im more worried about the very shitty screen on it (i can barely read what it says half the time, but might just take some getting used to)

[@thegingerborn]

If you're wondering, some of the samples at the beginning are from the Simply Space sample pack by Nigel Good. Really great pack and free go check it out!! I think you pick it up from 99 sounds

[@elowine]

Do you by any chance know the piano loop used at 5:18 ? It sounds a lot like the "tonight" sample by Nigel Good but it's different, I would love to know where it is from. Could also very well be an original by Jeremy !

[@jesuslovestoastyaya]

Nigel good is the best

[@joriskunkeler1959]

I am from Holland. I am astounded by the seamlessly infinite amount of possibilities in creativity processing musical performances. First thing like this was Medusa. Medusa was holy for me and all was about Medusa and though I still needed monitors and I was about to get the rode microphone. After that It is Deluge; I saw a woman creating her track in like 10 minutes, and it is still haunting me for it was a pearl. I have met other machines with an even wider grid. It is all about the grid, but not how big the grid itself is. I was granted the rode from a friend and now I am saving money for the Arturia Brute, but I will keep my eyes on this. It will be first after this Arturia Brute, a Mackie 32 channel, moog mother and then the sandstorm.is gonna hit me. The generous and genius of this mindblowing thing.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Absolutely agree

[@moonscore]

Love the Medusa too.

[@enigmasounds]

Thanks for recording this and battling with light and the streaming.

[@canispeaktodave]

Not all the way through the video yet but there is probability on notes in the last firmware, which is incredible. So is the undo feature. Also it supports WiFi sdcards. Someone on the deluge Facebook page has made an app to allow you to edit kits etc via WiFi sdcard on pc, so you don't need to take out the SD card to edit or add more samples etc. Incredible community.

[@canispeaktodave]

I've had the deluge for almost a year and learnt a lot from this. Thank you

[@gibblsworthiscool]

Hey! Great livestream! One thing that I have used that resolves any audio delay is wirecast. OBS has a audio latency compensation option however it struggles with variable bitrates. wirecast is a lot more than the free option however it works great for livestreaming. Another great option is to use your 5d mkii and use a blackmagic miniultra studio to capture the HDMI out which also carries the sound. so its all channeling through one source.

[@iosmusicman]

My oh my am I looking forward to the full replay of this (I know it’s in the distant past for you Jeremy but my deluge just arrived today). I’ll report back. Cheers. Lee

[@Th3rdFloor]

I'm just about to purchase one after 2 years of putting it off,!!..,made a recent mistake of buying a Roland mc707 in which is only 4 months old and collecting dust!,, reckon i've used it less than two hours,,seriously!!,,,its getting sold and i'm buying the Deluge in which i should have done in the first place!!

[@estes_was_here]

guess im in the same boat as you guys lmao sold my op-1 recently and im looking to get one of these beautiful boxes

[@Th3rdFloor]

@@estes_was_here ,,,with the new 4.0 update the deluge certainly sets the bar pretty high! ,,I don’t think there much else out there in todays market that steals its thunder. The sequencer is top drawer too!!!

[@estes_was_here]

@@Th3rdFloor nice lol. yeah just gotta convince the wife that the sheer joy im going to get out of this machine is worth the $999 price tag lmao ive done tonsssss of reasearch on all of the options and it seems like the best for me

[@ericpeters0n]

Sold! Just ordered. Using this to resample and arrange out of the OP1 and Organelle is going to open up my workflow beautifully.

[@trulyors]

This thing looks really responsive and intuitive, what a beast of a machine!

[@Quester82]

It was worth it just for the intro alone. Thanks for making music work. Sadly much of it doesn't lately.

[@bennydeckard]

I just ordered one. Thanks Jeremy!

[@EZBOT_]

Lovely to see my favorite synth getting love here :)

[@2mbst1]

Have been binging deluge Videos since the stream. What a great device! Might add it to my set up, or swap the digitakt with it? It seems like exactly the synth/groovebox I have been looking for the whole time.

[@mysteryperson4295]

Just realized I missed it! Looked like a sick stream though, glad to see someone getting into the Deluge!

[@hollsound]

I have Deluge since 3 months, and I adore that. I am glad you make this video, because I saw more oppurtunities, what I read in the manual, but I didn't make until now. For exaple the sidechain with another parameters outside the volume.I hope, you will make more tutorial videos with the Deluge and with the parts of this special magical oppurtunities.

[@TeknSun]

Thx u so much for this showing. Finally, i found a machine to replace my electribe emx1 !

[@80iesDude45]

I keep my EMX-1. with the Deluge perfect combination ;-)

[@ZackGeragosian]

This thing is amazing! Looking forward to seeing more of it. Can’t believe how many features they pushed into this!

[@ToyKeeper]

Thanks. There aren't a lot of good videos on this yet, so this is very helpful. I've started looking at the Deluge again since the announcement of a real song mode, er, arranger mode. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

[@FunkTree]

ToyKeeper really...

[@ToyKeeper]

The Deluge hasn't gotten anywhere near as much attention as synths from bigger brands. It's nice to see more educational videos about it lately.

[@goon1248]

Few minutes in and its already delicious. Going to enjoy the whole thing at work tomorrow.

[@weisland2807]

seems the deluge is what I've been waiting for elektron to make. def gonna get one when i've saved up!

[@Electronicmassacre]

Damn this was a nice surprise. Strangely just got interested in this box when they announced the new firmware at superbooth. Great to see it in the hands of the synth ninjah:)

[@ThePlughugger]

Great walk-through. Thanks for doing this!

[@Vladythebest96]

I love it when Jeremy does stuff

[@Neurotypique]

The next album with this thing will be fire! I really enjoyed juvenile hyperobject and buoght it on bandcamp!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Cheers!

[@ineffable_potentiality_01]

op-z or deluge... The Deluge takes the gold!

[@PolyDuff]

Bicycle or Pythagorean theorem... The pear takes the tungsten!

[@BoombapArt]

Good morning! Damn, the intro is 🔥 .. imma get back after watching the whole stream 👌🏻

[@BoombapArt]

Damn, creative stuff! Awesome stream! 🙌.. and nice looking headphones 🙂

[@dep1001]

Cool vid! Seems like an awesome machine! Thanks, Jeremy!

[@djbethove]

MySecretMachine i

[@dep1001]

We need more Deluge vids, Jeremy! You got me hooked :)

[@RedMeansRecording]

Soon!

[@dep1001]

NICE! :)

[@dep1001]

Still waiting for more Deluge vids! Especially now with firmware V2.0!

[@ArtsunMusic]

RMR + Deluge =

[@AnalogMonoxide]

Nice to finally see someone put this thing through the paces, I mostly saw just a lot of very uninteresting demos until this. Good stuff.

[@girlinagale]

4 days delivery from New Zealand to UK awesome, spent a couple of hours on it this afternoon, now with that hand-on feel just soaking up KZbin demos to back-up my initial experience. So many questions, so much potential, gig in 10 days, but will I bring it in as my main sequencer? What a lovely instrument to work with.

[@80iesDude45]

girl in a gale how was your gig?

[@Zaubrer488]

oh i love that thing

[@dudelikescomputers]

i like the blank banshee vibes in the beginning

[@Kevin-finity]

Support! Love your OP-1 performance series.

[@uhldev]

You can set custom parameters for midi cc out, and control other gear super easily. It’s awesome, and you can just have muted tracks/notes if you just want to send midi cc changes and no note values.

[@FunkTree]

Ok Bobeats and Andrew...it's your turn now :)

[@tonhueb429]

57:30 Dude! at first i thought that half step above was intentional, that was such a killer bassline. should have kept it ;)

[@narajanlive]

When you finish wall painting and come to the video and you're freaking out confused how are the hands still dirty from all the white paint hahahaha

[@BenODen]

Re the comment about giving the musicians what they want, they are even aware that as they have time to improve the deluge, the value increases. This results in an increasing price over time seems fair and is a great nod to the value increases over time theory. (Investment) In product development you make compromises to bring it to market, but as you reduce the compromises over time it does indeed become a greater value product. I'm sure it gives marketers headaches to think about products this way, but it does give incentive for people to buy now and be grandfathered into a sweet price as the value of the product goes up.

[@johnlee4364]

This is GREAT!

[@otepsia1697]

Very nice downtempo track at the beginning, well done !

[@index7787]

Damn you, I've been eyeing that shit. Congrats man, enjoy, looks sick.

[@user82938]

It's funny to hear you say the jokes that you'd normally put in on-screen text :)

[@FunkTree]

Painting garage has got its weight...I feel it in your performance J.

[@jimijouk]

You know what is good 😄New Zealand sound pocket tabletop groovybox !

[@Xenooni]

yeeeeeh boiiiii. sad i missed the stream but i saw it in the future! *woof*

[@djbethove]

Kor Jay iiiii

[@djbethove]

Kor Jay i

[@Xenooni]

ehhh, sorry i'm canadian.

[@dennismossinkoff7993]

sounds clear and wide!! nice so you have good audio setup!!!

[@NevinDouglas82]

You got one! Nice :) Hope you enjoy it as much as I do mine.

[@geooot]

Your livestreams should be called "Red Means Live" 😂

[@dillipphunbar7924]

or Red Muses Realtime

[@Cyan37]

Damn, those drum samples!

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

If that's not Skullsnaps - It's a new day, someone needs to fill me in on how you'd take, say, NI's Abbey Road Drums and get them to sound like that...

[@ASDAFL]

An hour and thirty minutes of Jeremy?! Yeeeeeeeah boiiii!

[@brown434]

So ready for this!!!

[@ModularLanding]

Hmm.. This looks amazing. What can the Octatrack do that this can't? I'm wondering if this would replace the OT for me...?

[@erict2899]

You rock man!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

aww jeez now I want this!! Dang it! What with you and Cuckoo and Bo and the others showcasing so many amazing pieces of equipment; although I do prefer this formfactor: all-in-one. I know specializing usually means quality over quantity but as you have demonstrated here, this unit does many things very well indeed! I like that the "deluge" part is referenced from a Crowded House song (Don't Dream It's Over); one of my favourite bands from my early teenage years...in fact I liked Split Enz before them.

[@5mjacbyr]

Thanks so much for doing this! I'm bummed to have missed the livestream (hope you do another one, I think it's an awesome format!). I love my Deluge, glad to see it's gaining traction. Quick question, is there a particular reason why you used headphone out rather than the line outs? Or was it just convenient?

[@bca5251]

Jeremy - dude I've been saving for an OP-1 for the better part of a year, I've finally got enough and was going to be ordering it this month but this video got me looking pretty hard at the Deluge now... It looks to be a lot more functional and for slightly less money. I already have a Circuit (also thanks to your videos) and really enjoy it, I create on it almost every day, and the Deluge looks like a "Super Circuit" which seems really awesome to me. Can you recommend one of the other before I end up with some serious buyer's remorse and/or gadget envy?

[@RedMeansRecording]

It's a hard choice. They both have their uses. The main thing the op-1 has is that you can fully render a song to aiff files with individual tracks. You can't do that with the Deluge. Yet. I honestly am kinda more excited about the deluge than the op-1 right now as a tool.

[@canispeaktodave]

bca5251 I have both. I prefer the deluge but the op-1 is way more portable. Though I am crap at playing live so if I could only have one it would be the deluge hands down.

[@dairylandbogurt]

Way more portable in what sense? Deluge seems pretty portable to me

[@canispeaktodave]

dairylandbogurt the op-1 is very small. The deluge is the size of a laptop. While it is portable, I'm not going to taking it on a plane or a train journey. The op-1 lends itself to everyday accessory that the deluge doesn't. Still prefer the deluge though, just not out of the house.

[@bca5251]

Maaannnnnn, hard decision. I've been so hyped about the OP-1 for so long. I am well aware of some of its big limitations as well, with the four track/six minute recording, only one project at a time right? I definitely like how small it is and want something I'd want to take everywhere. I take the Circuit everywhere now but it's pushing the limits of what I feel comfortably carrying all over the place. The size of the OP-1 is VERY appealing. I LOVE the Circuit immensely and the Deluge looks to be a much improved take on that type of device and looks very capable and fun. Would it be incorrect to say the OP-1 looks to have more varied sound capability with its different built in synth engines? I am really getting into the sound design aspect lately vs using ready-made patches or samples. The Circuit has been fun with the isotonik editor but I would love more variety in the types of with sounds I can create. It seems the Deluge is similar to the Circuit with it's one synth engine, just without the need for a laptop and editor software to design your own patches. I think I'm going to go OP-1 for now and start saving for the Deluge, maybe sell the Circuit at some point to put towards it since so much of what the Circuit does is there with the Deluge as well. Maybe I've just seen too many awesome OP-1 videos to change my mind now... LOL Thank you all for your input!

[@Naapeajaea]

Reminds me of the guessing game of using my old microkorg, knowing what all those weird symbols meant in the display...

[@elowine]

That piano thingly thing sample, is that one of Nigel Good Simply Space samples ? I got the pack but none sound like it ! :( It sounds great.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Yeah I think it's from there

[@jr6786]

I need to get the printed manual

[@superdooper50]

Why are synthesizers the sexiest creations ever?

[@niallmacdonald2710]

"Analogue delay takes up more cpu."..... :D

[@RedMeansRecording]

haha

[@WeirdMedicine]

oops!

[@edgarv.1603]

Nice explained this great machine! Seems that you have got a good source for samples...!?

[@CaidicusProductions]

I love your videos man. I don't like this one, though. Why? Because you're showcasing a device I want, but can't buy in my country of residence. (China). :P Jokes aside, it's always a pleasure to watch your stuff. Red means recording.

[@kiickinballistics]

1:06:40 Bel Biv Devoe’s “Poison”...lol

[@x-iso]

Somehow it feels like device is dedicated for Baths to produce his music.

[@flynn_22]

Awesome songs man

[@andersjeppsson8499]

Great vid as always!! RMR, would you recommend this device over One of Elektrons devices.. On the fence comparing Octatrack/Digitakt and the Deluge and a main composition device.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Yes I would

[@WavetableMetaphysics]

Mean machine! I need it!

[@woodswalker88]

The videos I've seen focus on editing. I don't need an editing machine...I can edit my material at home with Ableton. But I'm tired of depending on Ableton during performance. I need an alternative. How good is the Deluge as as a performance machine? Muting and fading clips/tracks in & out, accessing effects..

[@RedMeansRecording]

It's excellent. I'm uploading performance videos slowly to my channel. One is already up.

[@GrootsieTheDog]

Hey maybe you know the issue I’m having with clip/midi view and how to fix it- Everything works great when I play my external synths with an arturia keyboard going midi in to deluge and midi thru from deluge to Peak and other gear (the Arturia keyboard is going into deluge so I can control the deluge and other external instruments). So deluge records the notes I trigger from the arturia just fine if I’m in clip/synth view but it just doesn’t record the notes when I’m in a midi clip - the Peak has to be triggered from the deluge pads directly - even though the external synth is being triggered by the arturia while I’m recording. Deluge is not receiving the note massages from the arturia. Hmmm?

[@ramonkey2939]

Damn track sounds good

[@austinbru]

At the end of this steam, you mentioned a discord. Is there a link for that somewhere? Apologies for not looking further than the video description for it...

[@yapa5652]

Hey dude, I've just bought one for me, i'm waiting for it to get shipped. I'm afraid by what I hear in your video, like, sometimes it sounds like it got CPU overuse and it starts to krrrrr if you know what i mean. Does it come out of the machine ? Is it because you manipulate sounds ? Is the CPU strong enough or does it krrrrr everytime you move some knobs? Or was that just a sound from your stream ?

[@ToumalRakesh]

Unfortunately still no note-off support when muting/unmuting tracks or even when switching patterns.

[@vinitazade2199]

Cool beats brother

[@Filip_Z]

Red means streaming

[@rinkobamoto2452]

Does the Deluge have follow actions alike Ableton live, or even better like the monome?

[@vinitazade2199]

Love it

[@cosmogang]

Wow. Impressive

[@TrNdke]

Welp, I know where my tax return is going!

[@djoy38]

Hey there brother! Is there any Beat repeat? And solo?

[@RedMeansRecording]

yes to both

[@IlhanNegis]

I have terrible prejudice against man with nice immaculate hands, it's stupid, but, didn't fail me for 30 years.

[@vorbaud]

Great performace, but what happened to your hands?

[@matt-marque]

"Poison!"

[@_c_y_p_3]

Wish Synthstrom would just make their products available at gear4music or Thomann, or ANYWHERE inside European Union……….

[@dillipphunbar7924]

What about using and extended ROLI keyboard to control this....wonder if that would work?

[@GuidoGautsch]

It supports MPE, so...yeah?

[@ToyKeeper]

It's reassuring to see Jeremy voicing the same difficulties that I have with the Deluge, particularly about the lack of a screen and a resulting tendency to get a bit lost in the interface. This is an amazing device, but it seems like it badly needs a screen and more than two parameters per page. Give it 8-10 knobs and a small graphical display like an Elektron device, and it'd probably be a lot easier to learn and use. Even a common 20x4 character-based LCD would help quite a bit.

[@elissitdesign]

ToyKeeper good to know! Thank you. I can’t understand why complex devices like this have lacking screens. Elekron size should be the staring size. And perfect example... more need to copy them!

[@robertbing7585]

Why did you live stream so late? I'm so mad I missed it :(

[@harrycross4311]

Hi Jeremy!

[@Khoudi_91]

Darn i missed the stream :/

[@smainx]

Circuit on steroids ?

[@rinner2801]

First you made me buy an OP-1, and now another $900 has mysteriously disappeared from my bank account. Subscribing to your channel is getting rather expensive. I hope you are happy with yourself. Tried any OP/Luge combos yet?

[@RedMeansRecording]

I see no reason to pair them, honestly. I have a thing for standalone gear so I can focus on one thing. Both of them work well on their own just fine!

[@hostsofmichael]

How'd you compare this bad boy to the Digitakt? If you had to choose one which would you chooOooose? Many thanks! - Anthony

[@RedMeansRecording]

Definitely the deluge

[@hostsofmichael]

i hadn't watched the whole thing when i posted that. My apologies, as you talked about the two briefly in the video. But i'm really wanting to sell my digitakt and get the DeLuGe~!! Thanks for the reply! :) You rule! (in general)

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Still liking your Deluge? I just bought one of these

[@RedMeansRecording]

oh definitely

[@aquaticborealis4877]

@@RedMeansRecording Good to know. Is there any sort of routing of external synths through the deluge that you do? I guess I could just record a sample from an external synth. But I think you can do real time processing as well? I have to watch the rest of your Deluge videos. Haven’t had a chance.

[@LoftyTM]

Dude, I love your style man its so cool and unique, i got one question, what do you use to edit your videos(the software)?

[@RedMeansRecording]

Premiere!

[@LoftyTM]

Red Means Recording thank you so much :)

[@geecen]

Thanks for the video. Can you stack up voices to use up polyphony in a kind on multi mode? My favourite thing on samplers and ROMplers is stacking layers of samples with their own filters and envelopes. Thanks!

[@RedMeansRecording]

I don't think quite like that, no

[@dandykaufman2]

40:00 they don't want to /cannibalize/ their own products.