I’m exploring adding a Blooper and integrating with the Deluge. My instinct is that I’d sync the Blooper to Deluge via MIDI or CV, but it seems like some of the Blooper’s modifiers make strictly syncing everything up less interesting perhaps.
Anyone have any experiences with Deluge + Blooper they’d like to share?
Because I read about lack of mix on deluge:
I barely use it to arrange whole stuff on it, but it’s perfect for an attached drone on line in.
It’s another use of an instrument that I enjoy.
You can program osc’s on it to do line in, and filter, saturate, or delay, you name it.
You can mix line in signals with deluge with other osc’s par example, use fm or filter, play mono with glide or polyphonic… And you can do it multiple times with different settings, and that’s where the fun begins.
Imagine arps, pads, bass attached to line in in a way, and then you start twisting knobs on the drone. It alters the characteristic of the beat. It’s experimental but very rewarding.
would like to see a vid of that if you have a link
I use the two frequently, but not in sync. The Blooper’s free spirit appeals to me too much. Be mindful of the Blooper’s somewhat high frequencies when you use its filter modifier, the Deluge filter don’t respond well to such borderline frequencies.
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Thanks for the insight! Seems like going off grid is part of the fun of Blooper.
Yeah, I’d say so. You’ll come up with new ideas you otherwise wouldn’t have. This is just one take, Blooper only, with the dip switches in full swing for modulation and organic variation -
Very beautiful music. Thanks for sharing! Yeah, I feel like Blooper + the Deluge’s ability to record a great number of tracks is a fun combo. Capture Blooper output on Deluge, repeat, then un/mute & string together clips as you’d like.
Forthcoming v3.2 looks pretty fly.
wow
The Deluge just keeps on giving. Faster than I can learn how to utilize it, to be honest. Been experimenting today with the Deluge sequencing the Blooper. Super fun, especially when you purposely don’t sync them up, leading to gradually changing sounds.
This seems up circuit ghosts alley!
You better believe it, friend 
I’m glad I’m using mine so much these days, muscle memory’s kicked in and it’d be great to learn and embrace these new features.
Can anyone point me to examples (video, soundcloud, whatever) of the FM side of the synthstrom … PARTICULARLY … FM modulation amount varied by envelope ?
There are a lot of synths out there that do FM as a sideline to VA, but omit this key feature, and I’d previously lumped the deluge in that category. However re-reading about this in the manual, it looks like it might be possible.
Can anyone confirm ?
EDIT: “omit this key feature” sounds a bit nerdy … but I’ve recently realised just how much difference having this feature means to me, on returning to a synth that has this feature, I find it allows sounds that are much more pleasing and organic … to my ears.
I typed in “deluge FM” to youtube and this was the first video that came up. Seems pretty informative, from the first minute: you only have the pair of existing envelopes to modulate the FM amount.
There are a few more videos on YouTube as well that look right up your alley 
Great find thank you. Have to confess I thought I’d already searched youtube and come up blank … but I found out after posting that, as you say, there do seem to be a few about. Probably got my wires crossed … been researching various topics of the Deluge recently.
Apologies for being that guy you have to tell, “go search youtube”.
No worries! I have a Deluge coming hopefully today 
it was nice to learn something as well!
Another place to look would be the ‘Boards of Deluge’ sound packs. I could be wrong but I think they use a fair amount of FM
Sounds like something I should bookmark for when I take the plunge with a ‘dellie’. Right now I’m siting here wishing I’d got one instead of my M:C … but being honest with myself, I would probably not have had the courage to stump up £800 for my first groovebox purchase.
That video turns out to be much better than any of my finds, BTW, so thanks again.
