Deluge Community Firmware - The story so far + Beethoven Beta
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video we'll be taking a look at all of the advancements made to the Synthstrom Deluge with the community firmware. We'll be taking a look at what has been introduced with the firmware so far, and what has recently been released in the new Beethoven Beta! There's a lot to cover here, so I hope this proves useful to someone out there.
All music on this channel is produced by RSKT
RSKT LINKS (Website, Store, Patreon, Channels & Socials):
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Deluge Community Firmware Page:
synthstromaudible.github.io/D...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:14 (ARMADEUS) Master Compressor
03:22 Stereo Chorus
04:03 Wavefolder
04:44 Unison Stereo Spread
05:45 Filters & routing
07:45 LFO types & rates
09:12 Delay types & rates
10:11 Grain ModFX
11:25 Humanize & quantize
12:04 Fill notes
13:00 Drum pads
13:40 In-key keyboard
14:24 Automation view
17:16 Grid view
19:20 Lazy slice
21:17 Mod matrix view
22:18 Drum randomizer
23:35 Quantized stutter
24:03 Final thoughts
24:37 (BETA) Sidechain
25:18 Mutable Instruments reverb
26:02 Fill & Once clips
27:44 Performance view
30:02 New arpeggiator
31:15 New scales
31:45 New arpeggiator cont.
36:42 Row step
37:18 Keyboard controls
41:03 Audio clip shift
41:49 Final thoughts
42:55 Credits - เพลง
The new 1.1 versions takes it to another new level. So glad that you liked the arpeggiator stuff, more to come in 1.2 ;p
Just one note to keyboard sidebar actions. You can set in Settings-> Defaults->UI -> Keyboard -> Sidebar controls -> Momentary velocity/modwheel to disabled, and those two will behave now like a touch strip where you can slide your finger through the pads and the last pressed pad will be the one you last touched (instead of jumping back to the last tapped one, like showcased in the video)
Hey - Thanks so much for pointing that out. I hadn't really played around with those settings for the sidebar controls, so that's good to know! I'm going to make that the default from now on. Cheers!
I only watch your guides on the Delly bc they are the only ones my brain can follow and understand.
I was waiting for your community guide. Thanks for your help!
No worries mate! Cheers for the kind words and thanks for watching!
Thank you for this showcase! Demystifying some of the new features is super important. Since I see allot of people on the Facebook group being hesitant to try it out. This will be a great resource. Since there are so many new fantastic features!
Loved the arp section! Hadn't really dived into the new arp features yet, and they are fantastic! Playing around with them now as I write 😅
No worries! Thanks so much for watching. The new arp feature is absolutely amazing!
Hey you're back! Sorry I missed this, but it was super helpful as always.
@@jaguarvssnake Never left! Haha, but I get what you mean. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Its such an honor to be in the Deluge family. The Deluge makes my music possible. Please join me for Live Deluge jamming Staring sound packs by Borads of Deluge. I can't wait to get started with the new Firmware.
Thank you for using these sound :)
Says: "sorry I didn't have much time" ... then makes a 43 minute video with a million info points ... typical RSKT! Well done mate! I probs have to watch this a hundred times to remember all of those things!
Hey buddy! Glad to see you stopped by for this one. I was definitely pressed for time though. Synthstrom gave me a week to have this one out, and after getting pneumonia and losing my voice, I wound up only getting two days to smash this out. Hopefully I can dive in deeper in the manual version.
Great work everyone! Thanks
Epic! There's too many features I'm glad you made this video I'll just be deep diving the best i can always great to have different styles covering this massive firmware update
Thanks for stopping by Ron! This update might just be their biggest yet! Impossible to cover absolutely everything without my camera's battery dying several times throughout haha. Glad we were able to cover as much as we have so far :)
I’ve been using Amadeus for awhile now and there was stuff you covered I didn’t know about or understand. Eager to jump into Beethoven soon, and it’ll be a lot easier with your videos as my guide! Excellent video as always. Cheers friend!
Hey, great to see you here man. Thanks so much for watching. Hopefully I'll be able to cover more in the future!
@@RSKT_musicthe arpeggio stuff in behtoven looks super cool. Very cool way to get some more generative feeling stuff cooking!
@@oaklandghosts0510 Sure is! From what I've seen it's very similar to the arp in the hydrasynth, which is bloody awesome!
Superb. Your videos helped me to learn a lot before. Great to see your take on the latest firmware. Re-subbed to see more on the Deluge in detail in the future.
Thanks so much! I definitely plan on covering more. Time is my biggest enemy at the moment.
Thanks so much for this. I used the printed manual and your older videos to learn the Deluge and the release notes just weren't doing it for me. This helps a lot!
No worries! Definately take another look at those release notes though. There's so much I couldn't cover. Hopefully this vid is a good jumping off point!
@@RSKT_music Will do!
Thanks for showcasing this! As a Deluge owner with little time I really like to optimize the time I get with it and digests like this (and your manual series) are invaluable to me! The new arpeggiator content seems fantastic for some Berlin school Tangerine Dream type semi-generative stuff, really cool
No worries! Yeah, the new arp is my absolute favourite feature, next to probability per synth row. It's a really great way of generating new melodies and sequences.
Very nice demo !!! Thank you very much 🌻
No problem, thanks for watching!
The main man ✌🏼👌🏼 thanks pal,was hoping you were going to demonstrate, unbelievable amount of new stuff 👍🏼👍🏼
Haha thanks for watching!
I haven't watched the video yet but i'm so glad to see it's here ! 😁 Thank you so much, i'm sure it will be a very well made video as usual !
Thanks so much! Hope it helps people get excited about the new updates :)
Thanks always clear and helpful !!!
Thanks for watching!
This was such a great intro. Really appreciate it the time and effort. A video manual would be insanelly useful! 🎉
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you Deluge Community Dev Team and thank you Rskt ❤
Great work. Thanks for the overview
No problem! Thank you for watching :)
Nice! Always great to see more love for the community firmware
Definitely! These new updates have made the Deluge into a whole new beast!
@@RSKT_music For sure! Been a lot of fun testing them out!
Thanks for all the great videos
No problem! :)
The automation options are mind blowing, this is so useful!
Automation view has changed the game!
thanks for the overview!🎉 think you summed it up pretty thoroug! cheers!
Thanks for watching! Definitely check out the full changelog. There is just so much stuff in there that I wasn't able to fit into this video.
yeah, been watching github & discord for months and following up on the go, but your video is a great entrypoint for peaple who are new to the community fw
Insane! ❤
Thank you so much, very helpfull!
You're very welcome!
great video, thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for tuning in.
Brillant vid. 🥳
Cheers mate!
Great video, the number of new features from the community is pretty overwhelming at the moment :D
It sure is. Just tried out the new DX7 features last night. Absolutely mind blowing!
Thank you! Deluge rocks!
No worries! It sure does!
Fantastic. Great job!!!
Thanks so much! 😊
@@RSKT_music No. Thank you so much. 🙂
Gotta love a company that's willing to open source their code for the better of everyone involved.
Absolutely!
I love this instrument, I really do, and I'll never sell it, but when I leave it for a few weeks I end up having to re-learn everything. I guess that's why these videos are so useful, and for that I'm grateful to you for making them (still a bit of a pain sometimes when I just want to pick up and play but can't remember any of the open source shortcuts)
I feel you. Feature creep has always been a bit of a thing with the Deluge. Fortunately I see it falling under the 80/20 rule. It's great that it has all of these features, but you'll probably only wind up using about 20% of them per project. Find a workflow that suits you and forget the rest until you need it ;P
Yooooo, the new keyboard control mods are so good!
Yes! They've made the keyboard view so much more useful now!
Once again a masterful video from the best Deluge educator! I cannot wait for your Community Firmware video manual videos! Thank you @RSKT_music :)
Haha thanks. Hopefully I can get around to it sometime. Thankyou for watching ❤️
@@RSKT_music An "advice" if I may: when you get to record the community firmware episode(s) for your video manual, it may make sense to split them by following the releases? That way each video can stay fresh and up to date with upstream, and also stay relevant with each chapter:release 1:1 relation. Just a thought. I hope this is not overkill. Thanks a bunch for all you do.
@@GKRGY_music I think that's pretty much how I'll go about it. Time is my biggest enemy at the moment, but the reaction to this video has been super positive, so maybe I need to focus more of my energy on the Deluge again.
thanks !!!
No worries!
frustrating video.....................simply because I had some sort of 'catastrophic failure' in my Deluge, so I've been waiting for it to be repaired for about 2 months........Not sure if this firmware version has this, but I wish someone would update the Delay, so that we have independent 'Balance/Mix' and 'Feedback' controls (life almost every other delay in existence).............great video - so excited to see these updates
Great to see you here Will! Sorry to hear about your Deluge. I do know that Synsthrom are currently moving, so maybe that has something to do with the repair time. While there have been improvements to the delay, I don't think this new update contains what you're after. Hopefully it gets updated further in the future.
People can get crazy at so many new 1.1 features you showed in the video, ...but the funny thing is that yet you barely scratched the surface of 1.1 Beethoven... :D
I know, I know 😮💨I was planning on covering so much more, but unfortunately the deadline for this video got pushed up and I wound up sick with pneumonia, which only left me 2 days to film and edit all of this together. Hopefully it's enough to get people excited to dive in deeper.
you can also sequence clips from performance view (which is fun with ONCE and FILL clips)
sync scaling can be set to trigger FILL NOTES in clips which you can use in performance view
and (push and turn vertical encoder knob) to do global transposition of synth clips in performance view
and you can edit the location of columns in performance view, and you can edit the specific values of the paaaaaadssssss aahhhhhhh
Haha you're absolutely right. Man, there are so many new little features that I just didn't have time to cover for this. Thanks for leaving this here in the comments :)
So glad to see a beta because nightly releases are getting STACKED
Definitely. I've finally been playing with the new DX7 implementation on the nightly build. Wow. Didn't realise something like this would be coming to the Deluge eventually.
Basic question - is it expected that overtime, the “official” deluge firmware will incorporate the community firmware upgrades?
@@chadb1176 good question! I'm not really sure. Honestly, I think this is the way going ahead. That way, everyone gets to chip in and make it better, just including Synthstrom Audible.
I have updated and after I have set some drum hits to fill the fills don’t seem to trigger when I press synch scaling but just flashes blue. Any advice really welcome. Can’t seem to see the delay settings also - just toggles disabled and enabled when I press the gold encoder. Maybe I have the wrong link? Thanks
Don't panic! This is normal, as the features you've mentioned need to be turned on in the settings. For Delay, press shift+select. Go to Community Firmware, and select "Alternative God Knob Delay Parameters." For the fills, go to the same community firmware menu and select "Sync Scaling Action," and change it to "Fill Mode." That should get everything working for you.
Ooops! Yes of course - thanks so much for a really helpful video - hadn’t touched my deluge for ages and really enjoying the new features. Almost sold it and so glad I didn’t!
Can someone explain to me how the notch and bandpass filters work? For me the both sound like regular LP or HP filters.
so if morph is at 0 for both the "LPF" and "HPF" then they act like normal LPF or HPF, but as you turn up the morph, each morphs into the other type as morph goes from 0 to 50. This is why they're called "state variable" or abbreviated SV_B
first do init synth
1) set filter type to SV_B for bandpass or SV_N for notch (or whatever it says on OLED)
3) Set the cutoff of the low pass filter to 25 first so we can hear the differences in the filter types
2) the pad directly below the dB/OCT pad on the front panel is the morph control. This will morph the filter type from 0 to 50.
3) For the "low pass filter": morph 0 is low pass, morph 25 will be bandpass (or notch), and morph 50 is high pass. This is why we adjusted the cutoff frequency of the filter to 25 first because a cutoff at 50 will be like if you had a band pass at 6000 Hz or something way high up there. Set the morph to a value, then wiggle the cutoff back and forth to hear how it sounds.
4) For the "high pass filter" it's the opposite morph: morph 0 is high pass, morph 25 band/notch, morph 50 is low pass.
If LPF isn't one of the state variable models, then the morph control acts like a filter drive.
If HPF isn't one of the state variable models, then the morph control acts like a filter cutoff FM amount and it sounds really wild with a ton of resonance and a wavetable synth wtf
@@postsolarpunk Thank you so much! I‘m gonna try this 🥳
Hi ! I discovered at 18:40 a flickering play button . Does it mean a heavy cpu usage ? I have the same effect only with 6 Tracks working . Hope it is a beta thing.
Yep, that's the one. Weirdly, I don't hear anything dropping out on the track, but that light is supposed to tell you that things are being dropped due to the CPU usage. Some of the synths in this are wavetables with a sample loaded into the second oscillator though. If I'm being honest, I haven't noticed any CPU difference with the community firmware. The only time I ever noticed this issue was back when they first released wavetables and euclidean sequencing. For some reason, some of my older tracks struggled to play after that update. Barely noticeable though. I wouldn't stress too much about it.
Ok ! Thanks for answering and for your great Videos
@@juergensutter521 no worries!
But when can we motion record the stutter?
So you can actually automate the stutter rate in automation view now, which is great. Unfortunately, you can't automate the stutter triggering. They've been working on it for a while, but the way it's implemented makes it difficult to pull off. At least you can automate the stutter rate, so when you trigger it yourself, you don't need to twist or turn anything.
Fantastic ! Still no way to transpose a track from the keyboard view ?
Not at this stage, although you CAN transpose your songs and even individual tracks up and down by semitones from song view now
@@RSKT_music yes i know, but doing it in a specific note from the keyboard would be so sweet. I love all those advanced features the wonderfull community is adding, but at my newbie lvl of music production, transposing this way is the one last thing i dream about for my beloved Deluge !
@@quentin2368 you could always chat to the devs on discord. They might be able to add it in.
sooo... as of May 2024, even tho its still costantly being updated, do you think Synthstrom is gonna come out with a new hardware machine anytime soon or drop the price of a new Deluge? im gonna start saving to buy one and dont want a new model to immediately come out / have the Deluge get a huge price drop... what yall think?
If you like the Deluge in its current form and save up to buy the Deluge in its current form, then any future hardware releases don't matter, right?
I mean, it's really amazing in its current form, you can't go wrong.
@@JuanUys amazing response, just what I needed to hear. Thanks, Juan
Fair question! I know Synthstrom have made statements in the past, expressing no interest in making a Deluge 2.0. That said, those statements were a long time ago. Maybe the Deluge going open source frees them up to work on something new, but if that's the case I doubt we'll see it for a very long time. I'd say you're safe to jump in now :)
@@RSKT_music (ian from Synthstrom here). Still no current plans for a new model - we're still very much in the process of switching users OLED screens.
@@alowhum thanks for clearing that up Ian! ❤️
As a new deluge owner(it on its way so I haven't got it yet) Should I install the community version or stick to the official firmware?
I would go right ahead and install the community version. If you watch my series on how to use the Deluge, all of it is still there and relevant. The community firmware just adds on extra stuff around it! :)
Congrats! I hope it makes it to you quicker than expected! The Deluge is my next G.A.S. obsession... I will be getting one in a few weeks! I'm just worried they release new hardware or the price drops significantly a month after I get it.
YABADABADOOOH!! It arrived yesterday(Saturday) and its immaculate, not a mark on it. I installed open source Beethoven on it before I tried it out. I am so pumped by it!
@@RSKT_music That's just what I have done, Now to go through all your video's
@@iamrocketray amazing
Any issues with CPU? Think I’m going to try this.
I haven't noticed any issues with it. In fact, the play button now blinks when you're starting to push the CPU too much. Tbh, the only time I noticed the CPU dip was back when they introduced wavetables into an update.
@@RSKT_music Thanks for the info. Looking forward to a deep dive into the open source workflow, if you end up making one.
I wish we could get the cc for the stutter. I'd rather map this to my fader fox, other than ware out the Deluge know.
True. At least for now you can automate the stutter rate. Just can't automate the triggering of the stutter. Hopefully it gets added someday.
Should I sell my Play+ for a Deluge?
The Play+ looks like a lot of fun and seems very immediate. I have to admit though, I'm pretty biased and I think the Deluge is absolutely leagues ahead of the Play+. I would highly recommend getting a Deluge. It's just a far more capable machine.
@@RSKT_music I had one for a very short period of time, but it was the one with the old screen and I just couldn’t work with it. Im a spoiled modern mang. It seems like its a has grown massively since then and is now like Deluge 1.5
@@RSKT_music I did love the FX though, from my limited time with it. It felt uncapped. Without limit. Like zero guiderails 😂
@@HelicopterRidesForCommunists well, the effects are even better now! I'd say give it another go (maybe with the OLED screen. I think a lot of people get put off by the amount of features, but you really won't even use half of them. Once you get the hang of it, everything becomes second nature. It gives you so much power at your fingertips!