I can’t make a video myself, but this guy did a series which cover everything pretty well:
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Cavagnaro’s videos are great. I flipped out the fiddly OP-Z + Qu-Pac for a Deluge + Tascam Model 12. Couldn’t be happier! So far having ok luck with Model’s MTC telling Deluge’s Arranger view what to do. I’m finding the Deluge occasionally heuristic in a really good way, due to the notated grid interface. Other times I’m daunted by all there is to learn. I am not sure I’ve settled on a sampling workflow. I think the Deluge normalizes its samples, but I find myself instinctively looking for for a red light peak light like on an SP-404. Learning!
It does normalize them. Great when you get your staging right. Awful when you don’t.
What’s your workflow with the Tascam? You record one track at a time?
One track at a time is my intent. That’s when the Model 12’s track count can cause challenges though. Or, I may use the Deluge itself to record tracks, and the Model 12 to record various guitar parts, then record into a DAW when ready. It would be cool if Deluge ever gets ability to export rendered audio stems. So far it seems a little hard to get a clean sounding mix on the Deluge. I’m stilling getting a feel for levels, and EQ/filter, or similar, functionality for individual Deluge tracks.
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Okay, thanks. These are the moments when we lament the lack of multiple outputs on the Deluge. Then, we accept this and move on 
Hi Guys. Just wondering about saving songs on the Deluge. I’m a bit confused by it. If I save a song as number ‘9’ for example, then I continue on working on the same song, will it automatically save it as number 9 or do I need to press save again? If I press save again, I’m under the impression it would automatically default to the next song position eg 10 or somehow maybe 9a. I don’t get this part, I just want it to easily update song 9 with the new changes. How can I do that?
Pretty basic question I know but you guys are experts and I need a little help.
Thanks
Just save over 9 again. If you want to keep a version of the song, go for 9a, 9b and so on. 9 will still remain as is then. But if you want to replace what you had before, just save over the file, browse and find it by using the Select knob.
The Deluge defaults to saving your song in a new spot, which is why it flashes 9a when you’re saving, it assumes you don’t want to save over your existing work.
I think it even warns you before you save over an existing file, and you’ll need to press again to confirm.
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OK great. Thanks for that. I found the manual a bit unclear but you’ve made it nice and clear now.
Still tons to learn but in my limited time I’m having fun making noise on this machine. It’s portability is just excellent.
Cheers
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No worries, glad to help. The portability, while certainly a factor, is in this case a fantastic extra as I see it. The Deluge is just a damn competent instrument regardless, and the fact that it’s on a rechargable battery and compact to boost, is quite the marvel. Most portable instruments kind of partly hide behind this, going “But hey, it’s music on the go, so there’s always that.” Whereas the Deluge is just solid as is, and happens to be portable as well. Only other instrument I can think of that can claim this, is the MPC Live, which would just be really solid as is even if you couldn’t carry it around without a power source.
A little track I made on the Dellie after some field recording with its own internal microphone, as I took a stroll along the piers by the river -
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nice 
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thx👊
I’ve dismissed the audio recording feature within the Arranger as something that’s convenient but not more, like recording in Song view is just as efficient if not better, even.
Man, I was wrong. So once I’ve put together a song in the Arranger, I switch two synth tracks into midi tracks and map them to my Prophet 12, to increase the depth of the sonic palette and just make the track more organic (the Prophet 12’s like a living organism once it’s awake). I then record those Prophet tracks as audio tracks directly into the Arranger, capturing the entire live performance as the track plays through the arrangement, and they’re now part of the mix without the need to bring the Prophet along for gigs and such. Since the Dellie streams from the memory card, these sessions can be as long as the card allows.
Extremely powerful feature, now that I’ve learned to use it. Can’t think of any hardware sampler that does this, actually. Blackbox is close, but its song mode doesn’t compare to the Deluge’s so while it’s technically the same, the net result isn’t nearly as powerful as on the Deluge.
Anyone else using audio recording from the Arranger in this or similar manner? Or any manner at all for that matter?
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Used the Deluge a lot as multitrack recorder that way! Not only for synth recording but also for live instruments (guitar) and vocals.
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My review’s live now, for anyone interested -
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Yeeah ! was waiting for it
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An excellent review.
I specially like the way you describe the non-linear, and organic workflow, as it is for me one of the most interesting thing in this machine.
As you wrote, it feels like playing an instrument even when sound-designing. You create your own workflow with Deluge, almost without limit, once you figure its logic.
Another good thing you wrote about and that is important to keep in mind is that a whole album can be written only with Deluge, but it also marries perfectly with other machines, thanks to its great workflow flexibility.
I feel sometimes it makes some other machines better, and other machines can make the deluge better, a kind of synergy that make two things together equals more of their sum.
ie: love my mc101 sounds, and sequencing it with Deluge erase the 101 sequencer’s flaws, as 101 can give Deluge sounds it could not create by itself.
A few last words to say I feel so happy that, in this world where electronic music gear (and sadly, music) became too often just consuming products, Rohan and Ian created a real music instrument, and commit to this one exclusively.
Long term instrument, born to live long, build sturdy, spare parts available if anything happens, massive updates released and more to come.
It makes total sense today, and even more in the future, for the future. (sorry couldn’t keep my ecological point of view longer silenced 
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Just had a quick read of this, another great review thanks for posting. Will have a proper read again tomorrow but these keep coming up and think I’m going to have to try one… *puts wanted ad up
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Thank you 
yes, both Deluge and its makers are quite unique, a slice of what’s good in this world.
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Thanks it’s a shame they’re hard to find just for trial, but that’s Synthstrom’s model. Resell value seems very high, tho.