A Deluge Tip - Sidechain experiments. 

Yeah I'm severely under utilizing this machine

And here I've just been using the default gold knob sidechain for volume ducking like an amateur

I'm going to have to watch this about a hundred times. So many ideas! I'm really not digging deep enough into this incredible device.

Basically using the sidechain send as a generic automation/modulation parameter, but easily sequenceable and playable. Very nice! Learning them to the knobs takes it to outer space. Seriously great video series so far. I'm struck by how many of these slightly off-the-path tricks there are hidden inside Deluge, and how musical they end up being. I've been playing around with velocity sensitivity in the arpeggiator, which you can use to create ghost notes and grooves that work like polyrhythms. Now you've got me wanting to add in a sidechain layer to make it evolve over longer timescales.

Gonna have to watch that back at a slower sync rate! 😂 Amazing sounds from this method, thanks for sharing Ian!:)

now THIS is real creative working with the Deluge 👍

Blowing at my monitor to get the 2 hairs off of your Deluge. Thanks for the video/ideas!

Nice one Ian. Looking forward to more tips!

Beast of a machine 👀

This is what I need right now in my Deluge journey!

Bloody Brilliant tips - going to try these out today!

This is an amazing find Thumbs up :-)

🔥 That drop tho 🔥

Omg its just so satisfying to watch feom 2:40

Thanks for sharing. New to the Deluge and just testing out the sidechaining process flow. I was under the impression that I had to go to my Synth track, then, select the Sidechain/Reverb button to control the Sidechain from the upper gold knob. Thus, this sort of through me a "curve ball" since you never used that part (unless I completely missed it?).

Gahhhhhhhh i love this so much!

Sounds great at half speed too and you can also read the captions👍

grawn grawn wroachhh hhrreeeeyyawwtss! Great great tips thanks!

its so loud i cant see anything. thank you so much for these tips 😊

Is all of this applied just to that one drone track? Like I can make another drone and do it all over again for some crazyness and switch back and forth between the tracks?

Drop.

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Can someone explain in more detail whats happening with the sidechaining here? If I understand sidechaining correctly, there is (in this case) one drum track which acts as the trigger by sending out an 'on' signal, this trigger then triggers whatever the sidechain is connected to, right? In this case, the kick triggers a 100% (fully turned up knob?) for whatever it is being sent to, while the hi-hat triggers that effect for 50%, right? So if we have the drum kit sidechained to reverb for a synth, the kick triggers a fully turned up knob for reverb each time the kick plays? Very interesting stuff

still not 100% sure what the sidechain 'shape' actually does (not in manual) anyone? sine >> square?