Deluge Arranger View Explained 

I'm impressed by how concisely but still thoroughly you've presented each feature. This is well-organized and contains only what I wanted to know. Thank you!

Thank you Ollie! This is very helpful. Had Deluge for 3 months and havent ventured too much into the arranger while I familiarised myself with everything else, cant wait to get into this.

Thank you for making this brilliant, highly organized tutorial! It's amazing how much you manage to explain in 16 minutes.

thanks a lot, insanely professional overview!

Wow, i have seen many good tutorials, but this is the one that i got the most out of. You may be the one to get me out of the one bar trap. Thank you! :)

Super informative! Cant wait for more Deluge videos!

Very helpful video, many thanks 🙏🏼

Thank you! I learned a lot

Thank you for making this. I'm immediately having more fun with my Deluge because of it. 💯🏁

That was great! Thanks for laying this all out. I'm using this video to prepare for the Synthstrom release tour!

Concise and clear vid on Arranger view. Well done Ollie!

Great Video, thank you for the work

Incredible tutorial thank you!

Awesome vid, best tutorial I''ve seen for Arranger view. Going to watch any other Deluge videos you have! Had this thing like 3 weeks, it's amazing!

Very informative content. Thank you!

This video is just AWESOME. Thanks for sharing, i've learned a lot here !

We’ll done! You answered several questions I had! Thanks

I am a Japanese and Deluge user. I'm not good at English, so I watch videos using YoutTube's auto-translated subtitles. If possible, I want you to turn on the subtitles feature in your video.

Excellent video. Thorough and succint. One thing i thought you'd mention is that a white clip can be converted to a new colored clip for reuse. Hold the tail of the white clip in arranger view and press the song button. The white clip is now a reusable coloured clip

This is a great tutorial, I've had my deluge for nearly a year and not used the arranger mode yet. I decided I'm going to have a go tonight and this was the first arranger mode video I found. Really good job putting so much information across so clearly. Too many tutorials turn into demo's!

Fantastic video! My Deluge should arrive in a few days and this video has been very useful. Thank you.

Thanks very useful, each word as a meaning 👍

excellent, thanks.

Great video

@11:30 you're mistaken here. You can actually send white clips to the song view. once you've entered notes within the white clip (instance) you hold the first white pad and hit the song button. it then sends it to song view.

Really good, thank you!

Great vid! One thing tho, when you create a white clip in arranger view, and you actually like it, you don't have to recreate it from scratch. Press and hold a pad of the white clip while in arranger view and clic "song" button. It will export the white clip as a clip in a new row into song mode!

I have a Deluge--and I know some of you might be like, what did i just watch, but all of this stuff becomes instinctive really quickly.

There is some very valuable information here. I’ve been using song view for writing and performance and there’s definitely some features i need to be taking advantage of. First, I’ve been trying to figure out how to sample different chords/notes of the same instrument/sample and sequence/play them in one clip, not multiple clips. Kit is the answer! Just load different chops into different parts in a kit and sequence from there! Genius! Second, I’ve struggled to memorize the clips i want to trigger all at once, really quickly, and sometimes i forget to unmute one of the 3 or 4 clips i want to play at the same time. Grouping is the answer! This will take a huge load off my mind during a performance. Third; in one instance, my song had a 32 bar clip playing before a 4 bar clip, and I armed the 4 bar clip but just waited for it to play, not knowing the exact point it was going to play. In arranger view, I can choose exactly what time the shorter clip will play. So much more predictability there. Thank you so much for this! Learning Deluge has been a struggle, but these tips will allow me to take full advantage of my performances:

Great video! I also loved your video on the looper - in fact that was pretty much THE video that convinced me to buy one for myself - so thanks! I'm sure this video will convince many others to get a Deluge too... The arranger is insanely good!

Thanks!

Very good vidéo thank you👌

Just got my Deluge and this is pure gold. The loop recording function might also be worth mentioning at this point to quickly get clip variations for your arrangement. I guess that's worth a separate video by itself. :)

Thanks. I just got mine a few days ago and have been learning it but the arranger view was a little confusing. This thing is the most fun ive had making music in a while!

Now I understand why youtube has a playback speed option :)

Eight months later -- OH! I get it now! It was a very steep learning curve (for me) that required me mimicking your moves and button presses one-for-one (after taking a few other courses first to get some Deluge basics under my belt -- ones that you went over in the beginning; but I could only understand the terms and what was happening after I got a few other's education on those subjects). With that said, thank you for helping me put it all together as I can now navigate in and out of the Arranger with ease -- and it does what I expect it to do. That wasn't the case 6-8 months ago. (The problem was that I was creating "white" ones and couldn't understand why . . . it was a brick wall that was getting in my way . . . I'll add that this confusion was reinforced by the manual's instructions).

Thanks, this is helpful. I've been considering a Deluge or MPC to replace a Digitakt, and this gives me more info about how that might go. Hoping to work in a manner which is horizontal first (time) then vertical (adding tracks), with much of the actual sound design happening toward the end after the notes have been arranged. For now, I'm basically using a Digitakt for drums and to control a bunch of synths, as shown in my video called "Easy Does It". It works, but it has some pretty awkward drawbacks. It's all based around 64-step 4-bar patterns, which I find are never long enough so I need several patterns per phrase and several banks of patterns per song. It also ignores CC data from external controllers entirely, and even when sequencing CC with its onboard encoders it can only do one value per 16th-note step. Then when I'm nearing the end of a project and want to tweak things for mixing purposes, I have to apply those changes individually to every pattern in the song... which adds hours to the process. And it uses proprietary protocols so I can't even back up my data or load samples. I'd like to work on a timeline instead, which makes the Deluge appealing. I hear it also handles CC data much better, and makes it pretty easy to do triplet notes, which I use a lot but are exceptionally awkward on a Digitakt. Also, it seems like it could facilitate rendering midi tracks as audio and then arranging those on the timeline, allowing me to multitrack a monosynth and reduce the amount of gear needed. It could even allow reverb tails and such, since clips don't have to align to pattern boundaries. I'm concerned about its UI though, and the difficulty of remembering what each clip is when I have a large number of them. The MPC seems generally more mature and more user-friendly in most ways. Its automatic multisampling also seems really nice, for tracks which don't involve rely on turning knobs for expression. The main drawback is that it has no timeline mode... it's still pattern-based like the Digitakt (but with much longer patterns). Also, it's a bit heavy on menuing. Anyway, apologies for the long comment... mostly just wanted to say thanks, and then got lost thinking out loud.

11:50 you can copy white clips from arranger back to song view. So you can absolutely start building from arranger without any limitations.

I feel like my brain just downloaded a manual on Arranger mode, after diving into it this week and finding it most pleasing.

Wow this is a dope ass video

Is there a way to adjust the level of individual tracks is song view ? I thought i saw a video somewhere demonstrating that where you can just push on the grid of each track in song view to adjust the individual track volumes but now i cant find it and i cant find that info in the manual so far. Ive only been able to adjust track levels by going into each track separately and adjusting the level there , but i could swear i saw a more mixer like quicker procedure in the song mode where where you adjust the levels on the grid just pushing . Maybe im mistaken idk.

Great video, super helpful. Bit of a slower pace would be good. I found it super helpful. Keep up the good work!

Hi thanks for a brilliant and really helpful video. You mention that you can uncouple the cloned tracks in clip view - how do you do this so that they play at the same time? Also is there an option to loop the arrangement ? Thanks

Thanks for the vid. Something I've noticed is that the arranger will not (seemingly) take probability information from kits or synths into the arranger. And you cannot perform 'mutes' within clips - ie muting and unmuting elements of a kit, it seems to just capture a single mute snapshot. Currently my workaround for this is to record long phrases say for a kit, change this long phrase into a white instance and to then manually reprogram these longer phrases to have probability and variations in mutes within a kit. This gets kinda problematic when you're relying on clip colours to get an idea of where you are in a song, so I create blank kits that I use just to use a song clip colour marker --- ie I have a 16 bar blue phrase and I can see the 4 bar yellow phrase is coming up. Sorry about the wordiness...reading about programming is like watching paint crack

Thank you for your guide! Is there a way in arranger view to select where we want to start playing the song? So we don't have to play everything from the beginning each time...

Great vid on the various modes. Do you happen to know if you can export the midi while playing back an arrangement (in the Arranger view)?

thanks a lot for this video... it was kinda the key to finally move out of just 4 bar loops... question... say you have a 1 measure clip, is there a way to copy all the info in that 1 measure turning it into a 2 measure clip? so lengthening the clip and copying the note info... thanks

Hey guys, I need help! I am building a techno set on my deluge, mainly using the arranger. I have already build 10 minutes in one project but I noticed that the CPU starts to have problems with such a big project. Because of that I want to build the next part in another project. But if I try to load the new project at the end of the arrangement it just keeps on going for an unspecified time. It doesn't just load the new project at the end of the arrangement, but keeps on going. Eventually it will load the new project after some time, but I couldn't figure out how to influence this timespan. On the display it shows a blinking 1 and I can change that to higher numbers, but I guess the higher the number the longer it will loop?

I think a white clip can be sent into Song view by holding one of it's dim pads and pressing Song. Then it becomes repeatable in Arranger view.

How would one go about moving the play head in arranger view? I'm sure this must be possible as it's rather impractical listening to the song from the start each time...

I don't understand why everyone hasn't abandoned MPC and Elektron for Deluge Actually I can see the draws for all, but this sure as hell looks better to me than making songs on MPC or Elektron

At 06:13 you say it's possible to loop your clips in Arrangement view, but you don't explain how! Do you actually mean you can just place a clip 100 times if needed, or is there something you didn't explain clearly? Thanks in advance.

Can you set a new start point in an arrangement while keeping the whole track so you can continue building a song halfway through the track without restarting from the beginning each time....I know you can start anywhere you like with holding down "scroll L/R and hitting play" but it only starts playback from that point one time which can be a little annoying.

Very informative and helpful, however - I (still) have a hard time seeing the lighted pads clearly, as the 'ambient' light level is simply too bright. Top marks otherwise, Really great upload.......

Just so you know you can change a white clip in arranger view into a colored clip so it can be reused.

is that your voice or a computer talking?