Is this recommended? Based on where it was in the manual, I wasn’t sure if this worked for regular audio clips or just the looper, either.
It’s a feature so it’s certainly an option for some use cases. I would recommend it if you want loops that don’t click. I haven’t tested it extensively … but I don’t see any downside of using it.
Audio clips and the looper are integrated. The way I see it, the loop functionality is just a series of repeated arm/record on audio clips
Got it. I’ve read the guide, and watched the videos, but I’m the type that has to learn by doing. My deluge is scheduled to arrive Saturday, but I work all day. It’s already arrived in Atlanta, though, so I’m hoping it comes a day early.
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Nice 
yeah I think the way the interface is setup, learning Deluge is especially best done by doing. Hope it comes early for ya!
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It’s such a great device, hope you will enjoy using it.
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I LOVE it so far. Have barely scratched the surface, but it’s a fun tool. One issue I’m having, trying to use my Theoryboard as a USB midi controller, and am getting hanging notes. Is this a deluge issue most likely or Theoryboard? Anything I can do to fix it?
I keep coming back to just the Deluge from time to time, just enjoying the process of writing music on it, but always getting stuck on the internal quality of its audio engine, be it synth or samples.
I’m considering trying to throw some stuff on the master, to see what that yields. I do the same with the Blackbox anyway, summing and mastering through the SSL SiX, so I figured, the Deluge might do well with a similar kind of treatment. Without the individual outs, though, one has to look for more master bus-like options.
I’m considering -
OTO Boum
Analog Heat (I have previous experience from this one, I know it’ll do some good)
But really, I don’t know much about gear applied on the master, so I’m looking for options here. Anyone got any ideas?
Hey circuit! So recently I’ve been running the Deluge output through my guitar pedal board with a filter, overdrive, and reverse delay from a (mono) aux send on my mixer. I’m then mixing this back in parallel with the unaffected sound. Besides being a one-trick pony, I’ve been really enjoying the results.
My last four tracks on SoundCloud utilize this, here’s an example:
And then, in my experience, if you use the Dellie to sequence an external piece of gear for one or two sounds it really opens up how you can mix it. It seems like you could still integrate the SiX into the process to facilitate everything.
Can you describe what you don’t like about the output? Also, my go-to recently is turning down the song volume to around 10% and pushing it back up later in the chain.
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No but coincidentally I’ve been looking along the same lines. 
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Actually, I’d rather describe what I do like about it. It has sort of a vaporlike character which pulls me in, working really well on pads, slow leads and just subtle, moving chords. It lacks that body and presence though, but I can get a decent mix out from it so if something else can add the weight, that might be something.
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Ha, thanks for not answering the question, I regretted it after posting because it didn’t feel constructive. Hmm, so you’re not looking for something like I’m doing, which is removing weight and adding more dust and a sense of distance.
Have you tried the compressor on the SiX?
Don’t have anything else to contribute except I’m excited to hear about what you (and Neil) end up trying
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Yep, the SiX goes some way to add punch. But I want it wider, larger, kind of. SiX does that well with multiple sources but just on one stereo source, it can’t do all that much of what I’m looking for.
I had a Sherman Filterbank for awhile. If that thing ever did stereo …
isn’t the Filterbank mk2 compact stereo?.. don’t quote me tho
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Maybe get two? 
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It sends stereo, but converts incoming to
mono first.
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See, I knew you’d say that 
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not me, i run two Bogner Harlows.
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Yeah, two Shermans, that’s just nasty 
So I might be on to something here.
I did some more elaborate testing with the SiX and the Deluge this morning, and naturally, even if it’s just the stereo pair plugged in, it does something - there’s slightly more air and especially the Deluge delay, which I’ve always kind of liked, comes through nicely.
So I multi-sampled a pad patch from me Prophet 12, and then copied that onto the Deluge, and added some of the Dellie’s modulation, noise and just a slight tweak of the filter. That turned out into quite a nice patch. Not as evolving as the original, but not worse - just different.
Running that from the Deluge through the SSL SiX, was a very satisfying experience.
So I’m gonna do a few more multi-samples from the Prophet 12 now, throw those into the Deluge, write a track with it and mix and master it through the SiX. But this whole slapping stuff onto the master signal and just work with the stereo mix, it’s kind of starting to appeal to me.
I read somewhere that someone uses the Boum with the SiX. I won’t be going back to the Heat, I remember why I sold it after all, so maybe the Boum’s an option here as well.