excellent
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Thanks a lot Unifono! Glad you like it 
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The #3 Boards of Deluge Patch Bank is available now 
50 new synth presets for Synthstrom Deluge. So the trilogy is complete - it was a huge fun to create these sounds. What do you think, do you have any favourite patches from this set?
Hereās demo video. You can grab the pack here: https://synth-patches.com/
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Digital Tones | 100 new Deluge patches made with multi-samples of the Digitone
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Off topic, but how did/do you enjoy the system 8? Iām interested in this synth since it was releasedā¦ Was hoping for the prices to go down with the release of the jupiter x/xm
Due to quarantine-learning I decided to sit down with mine, even though Iāve owned it since the first batch, and work through every page of the new Producers Manual. Mainly because I kept getting frustrated with the new looper and audio clip functions (learned a few little things about old features too!). I get the looper and audio stuff now. Though itās very gently starting to show those signs of trying-to-figure-out-how-to-cram-more-features-into-not-too-obscure-shortcut-keys itās an incredible machine to use. Sure, the synth engine it a little basic (though in some ways it isnāt - the modulation routing/matrix for example) and it lacks multiple outputs and a couple of other little niggles but thereās nothing else like it. Just the immediacy and the fun and the sheer scale of how much you can throw at it still baffles and amuses me. Itās firmly in the Never Selling category of my gear.
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The mxpand overlay is great for reminding the shortcuts, especially the encoder based ones. One thing that still bugs me a bit is that Triplets View and Sync-Scaling have dedicated buttons, Iād prefer they were repurposed into something more useful, both those functions could easily reside elsewhere. Triplets view could be integrated into zoom and sync scaling could be in the settings or tempo menu.
I think the synth shortcuts are very well implemented and stick easily, but some of the other shortcuts still seem to be a bit illogical to me.
Need to hit that guide book up myself
I love the System-8, but itās very big and very (plasticky) lightā¦ Eventually it was just too large for the desk space I have available so had to let it go.
Still have the System-1 though which I also adore and do have some space for fortunately.
The sound of the System-8 is great and I think the ACB is more faithful to the originals compared to the Zen Core stuff, which is also nice and could get you close enough I suppose, but perhaps the reason why the prices on these Systems havenāt dropped yet.
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Thanks yes itās huge and pretty ugly. But the sound is basically what Iām after very often and the knobby interface looks great.
Yah, I got my unit for about a year now, and I agree. A box of wonders, best hardware sequencer for the money hands down, feature galore ā¦but as of now the synth engine is a bit of a weak point, maybe thatās gonna change with introducing wavetables.
So on topic question. 
Iām considering the deluge, mainly based on people praising the sequencer so much. And because of the multisampler.
I watched quite a lot of videos and Iām aware of most features. Iām always after the most intuitive, inspirational workflow so when people say this sequencer changed their way of making music etc this gets me very interested.
But what sets it apart so much? I mean the sequencer, not all the other features (itās crazy feature rich as a whole obviously).
Edit: I guess the visual feedback of the notes is pretty cool as well
Is it the arranger where you work linear on a timeline? Or what other special tricks does it have, that other hardware sequencers lack?
For me the sequencer is the best aspect of the Deluge - although it has some +/- compared to Elektron.
However the grid is great to use, transpose and editing is a breeze, extending or shortening notes, adding chance or iterations, etc. all very nice.
The arranger is also very very nice, some features are so elegant and well implemented it makes the other not so well implemented stuff a bit more puzzling (and annoying) So the arranger is for linear timeline stuff, song mode is for launching sections (or having them launch according to settings)
I donāt think it has many special tricks unique to it, apart from perhaps realtime pitchshifting of external audio which is pretty cool.
Definitely a machine worth trying.
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For me personally I donāt think the sequencer is that special and I prefer the visual feedback you get with Elektrons regarding Parameter Locks, but having unlimited steps (you can make a row of notes as long as you like) and not being in that 64 steps paradigm is great in itself. The arranger is like an easy song mode which everyone was and is always asking for
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Thanks for the insights.
I have the feeling itās a bit like with the OP1 where you canāt really get the workflow feeling from videos and have to try yourself.
Just so used so much to elektrons for so long, that other approaches become very tempting to try
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Yes, the pretty lights hardly feature the depths of this machineā¦
Did I mention you can timestretch multi-samples and play them polyphonic? Octatrack 2 territory like I told you before
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Iām fantasizing about mobile kontakt libraries like unacorda
And having all my fav synth sounds in a small sampler box.
no idea how much effort this takes to create for the deluge
What I miss, and maybe someone has an idea:
I also use live instruments for my music from time to time. I samples them and am happy with using the fx units filters, lfos etc on them, but: some times, I am really really happy with just a piece of the part I recorded. Letās say I play riff 4 times on my guitar and only like the 2 times in the middle. Normally I would just cut the sample at the start and the beginning. That works great on the deluge with zoom and the waveform displaying on the buttons, but the sample them gets timestrached to match the old length.
Is there a way to turn that off?
Use shift + pitch/speed (4th grid button from most left-below if I am correctā¦ Not behind the Deluge at the moment) and change Inde to Link and see how that goes
Or perhaps try to change play mode to once or cut? Try it out
Totally possible, though using various instruments with stereo samples and long releases (pianoās for example) at the same time will get you voice stealing for sure.
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No, that just makes it worse. But I found it! After you cut the sample to length in waveform view, you go back to clip-view. There you can resize the length of the clip like you do with midi clips.
Yay, I miss that feature since week 1 and finally found it!