Composing longer tracks // Synthstrom Deluge Tutorial

Intro 0:00
Sequencing notes 0:30
Changing length of track 1:00
Duplicating entire track 1:22
Zoomed out longer notes 1:59
Copy Paste Function 2:25
Clearing track 3:45
Composing a new track 4:00
Playback from screen view 5:25
Copy paste to another track 6:02
*Note -Could use duplicate track function, then change midi channel. This is just showing copy paste again
Composing an accompanying longer track 6:51
Extended Demo playback with master FX 10:42

[MChristian]

Are you a mind reader? I think you're a mind reader. Thank you so much for this video that exactly covers something I've been interested in with my deluge. The copying and pasting t to a new root note is new for me and utterly brilliant. Your instruction videos are always super useful, easy to follow, and very inspirational. Thanks again!

[MattiaPiola]

Thank you.
Today has been a rough day, I've been to my old friend's funeral. He was my best friend in primary school, but then life got in the way, and we drifted apart. He was just 32yo.
The worst thing is that I couldn't take part in the actual ceremony for covid-related reasons. It was really sad.
After the funeral, I came back home and started watching this video to calm down a bit, and check the workfow of the deluge, as I've been doing for a while, since I'm really tempted by it.
But instead of just getting a tutorial, you gave me this wonderful piece of music. I know it's almost improvised, and you made it just to show the instrument, but I found it to have these incredibly melancholic and childish vibes, that instantly took me back to those past days with my late friend.
I know it's probably just me being in a weird mood, but I wanted to thank you nonetheless for giving me this much needed moment of catharsis.

[Jen_S]

Took me a while to get my head around the zoom/copy/paste but now i have I find it incredibly quick to compose using the methods described here. 👍🏻

[Jimantronic]

Thanks Ron, super helpful as always :)

[TristanBaldi]

1 minute in and bam : first notes of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds haha!

[adamoliver]

I've watched quite a few of your vids now since I got my deluge(you remember a few weeks back when you commented on my comment then that dick head waded in?), they're very helpful, this one especially so. Thanks for the effort Ron.

[GrootsieTheDog]

Maybe you could help me out - I want deluge to be the brain triggering two other synths (Peak + XD) BUT I would like my arturia keyboard to trigger Peak + XD + Deluge (don’t always want to use pads to play the deluge + I would like to use pads to trigger some of the synths) individually. I got the basics: Arturia Midi In to Deluge then Midi Thru to other keyboards. Is this going to be a matter of setting each clip to its own midi channel? So for example, I want to just play the Peak - would it it simply be a matter of switching arturia to channel 2 then going to that midi clip (set to channel 2)? Would I even have to be on that midi clip to trigger it - just simply have each clip on its own midi channel and switch Arturia channel to trigger various machines? Thanks for any help.

[aslegu]

Good tutorial. Clear voice. Could possibly lower the volume of the Deluge bit.

[GrootsieTheDog]

Can the deluge have different length tracks that loop individually so one can do classic phase looping...like Eno for example? So for instance, a track that loops every 5 measures and a track that loops every 3 measures - so that each time they repeat, they phase.

[ywenp]

Do you have a way to copy/paste not the whole screen, but only a range of columns (like from column 1 to column 12)?

[redbirdsaraceno]

Every time I try the second copy and paste at around the 5 min mark it copies it but it slows the tempo by half . I was following your procedure step by step and had it in 4ths pre copy and past. Ill just keep retrying to copy your steps. oh ok, i got now . For some reason the first time you copied in this vis you only had to press learn and the side scroll push then on the second copy it appeared that you hit shift+learn the side scroll push, and when i followed that my timing remained the same . Oh I guess the first go round was duplicate not copy, that must be where i got tripped up. Nice procedures to for sure .

[nicholasdaniel]

Thats Jesus Christ by brand new lol. The first 2 bars you lay out haha Great song

[shadowhenge]

Any tips for getting around the 16 section limit?