I listen to this beautiful piece every night before bed. Thank you for this lullaby.

Awesome work and some excellent rowdy noises! BTW, if you hit Play and Record again whilst it's resampling, it will run to the end of the loop and finish, then your recordings are always the right length for your current track.

I used to have an Octatrack for a few years, i enjoyed it despite its awful interaction design. Then a couple of years ago I got a deluge, and I find it superior in almost every way, and much more usable

I recommend having a look at the kilpatrick carbon as a standalone sequencer that is both visual and simple. You will need a midi keyboard to feed it notes and a multi timbral synth. I have the analog keys and I feel your pain. The lack of screen and the not so inspiring sounds of the deluge spook me especially as it isn’t cheap.

impressive, but can you do all that without stopping the audio playback?

So much fun!

Lots of nice ideas here! Thanks for sharing! Here’s another one: chop your loops and give the slices a “stretch” playback mode, then place notes with different gate lengths and the loop accelerates and slows down based on your pattern

This srsly made me regret buying the Polyend Play. Had it for months and it just got increasingly frustrating/annoying and behind my expectations over time. I should've invested a little more to go with the Deluge. I probably sell the Polyend Play and buy a Deluge in the future. Just the fact that its open source and has resampling and a synth engine and you can edit colors of steps... there are just so many things to love about the Deluge - and the Polyend Play crackles loudly when you turn one of the touch-sensetive (and buggy/double-bouncy) knobs, which sometimes randomly think they got touched on their own and therefore change menus. Every step is (unchangable) white, some functions don't work properly in combination (slow track speed + "reorder mode" yield, that nothing but the first note in the track gets played), you can't customize most things, it can't play stereo samples and has no synth engine - but you can give away your 800 bucks unit and add 400 bucks for an upgrade an pay the shipping on top for them to switch out the cpu, so you can run stereo samples and a synth engine, wow. The whole button layout feels impractical for right handed use over time, since you have to go cross armed all the time or switch hands or do finicky tasks with your weak hand while your strong hand just holds pads... It just feels not thought trough nor capable enough and I'm starting to lose hope that it can become an actually good device with software updates alone (for more than scribbling down initial ideas). Rand, rant, vent... This video was cool and now I'm thinking about how a Deluge would've probably been the better choice. Oh well. You live, you learn and sometime you gotta pay the piper. At least trying out the Polyend Play allowed me to test it and shape an opinion and decision(s) for the future.

Now, it’s no competition. The Deluge blows the Elektron sequencers out of the water. And I’ve been an Elektron fan since I bought my first Machinedrum directly from them in 2001.

Are you playin in the Snow ?....and then ?

I use my Digitakt and Digitone song mode, and I can make full songs with bridge, chorus, verse structures. Easy now that song mode has been introduced.

god the first 3 mins were exactly my thoughts and situation, well put.

Thanks for sharing, I'm new to Elektron gear and have a Syntakt, Digitakt and Digitone ... Love the Syntakt of the immediate way to create crazy drums patterns. I'm thinking of adding the Analog Heat +FX to match with the ST for crazy drums! With the Elektron gear quickly came across the problems with programming more elaborate songs/arrangements/extending - scaling down (maths!!) and actually seeing the notes on the grip and what's need played out. This really helps. I need be able to both jam (immediate) and the ST and Heat +FX will be ideal for that, but I also been to write and arrange songs, with intro, verse, bridge - all that old school shot stuff. Plus I need change keys, have a melodic element to a song as opposed to just one note being played 😞 So I'm thinking of firstly matching the Deluge with the Syntakt and eventually adding the Heat + FX (Heat +FX is purely optional). Good plan / bad plan? I also play drums so I can arrange tunes within the Deluge and add acoustic drums as a last instrument to the arrangement - add via a DAW I presume.

FWIW: If you have an O_C module, someone wrote a "ResetClk" applet that does the same basic thing - available in my Phazerville firmware

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Kinda lame that you have to buy extra gear to get basic functionality like this. (Especially for something that's 750 euros now!) Some of the design choices of the DFAM are just bizarre. Microscopic knobs, no sequencer reset, no sequencer scale length, weird knob layout and NO MIDI?!. It's still an incredibly inspiring instrument but still, these were just dumb design choices that helped nobody. Sometimes the DFAM feels like a rushed product to me.

and how much more power one year after !🎉

My favourite instrument ✨

Will an octatrack hardcase fit the deluge?

Excellent video, thanks!

Found this via your vid about deluge as a sample mangler. Great mangling here, too!

Knarly!

madman!

I have an Akai Midi Mix going into my deluge, And in the deluge im primarily mixing Audio Stems that I have sampled from my laptop. Its disappointing because it seems Midi control is not compatible with audio tracks on the deluge, As it just says 'Cant' on display, Im simply trying to use volume faders, and filters controlled externally. Any help?

mad! when me grown up I want me get one.

would love to have a deluge that was just the sequencer and the interface, with 2 midi outs and a range of triggers and cv's etc to interface with other instruments...

wish the deluge had 2 midi outs....

Bob tells us about on how to pronounce Moog, though :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6p-YNxhtrebk6c.html

very cool video, i just sold my octatrack and now i am very happy to own a deluge (again) (the video was a bit loongish ;)

Just press the advance button until you get back to step 1

Ooo this is cool - can you also use it with midi to play quantised notes?

It's really not an argument because Bob Moog pronounced it like Mohg. Long O sound. Not Mooooog like a cow. His documentaries are pretty terrific. If you're interested in like synthesizers. Cheers!

does it beat the Electron Octatrack in live sample mangling?

I need this. And I'm in Australia! I want the Eurorack module version though. Emailed Serendipity to ask about it. What a fuc**ng good thing ;-)

Mine arrived today - very happy!

Does this mean it can be used in Logic X

Whooaaa this is so cool. This thing seems so much cooler than almost every sampler/sequencer, but the lack of export makes me so sad. Nothing else seems to provide the option to make the strange combo of music I want to make as readily as the Deluge. What a crazy instrument.

Rather just reset in 2hp

Can you make a video doing the same exact thing with the octatrack?

this is fantastic stuff mate, really gritty and into the theory side of things without messing around or anything like that

after doing resample+play, you can push this same button combination again and it will automatically stop playing and resampling when the current loop ends

Yeah, ok. But that ain’t music by any definition.

How much $?

I got this module recently and its an amazing piece of work. Pure chaos brilliance.

Wooooowww!!! The sounds are so much better on the Elektron

Hey! The DFAM never disappoints! Did you manage to patch it with MS20 mini?

My Thing is arriving today 👍

Comparing live rec on Deluge with grid rec on Elektron which has live rec is a top level review.

+awesome+