Deluge Tutorial - Synthstrom Deluge for Guitarists 

This was great! Thank you! The best thing I've learned as a guitarist using the deluge is that the default keyboard mode is exactly the same layout as the top four strings on a guitar. Five half step distance between each row/string. This really helps playing chords and improvising. Instant skill transfer.

Great video. Great song !! And massive shout out for the Oris Aquis. One of my favorite watches ever 😁

Nice vid! I argue with my neighbor -- he has a Deluge and I am strictly DAW-based. Seeing this I just see how much more fiddling is necessary on a hardware unit to do relatively basic tasks that are much more straightforward in a DAW. I use Renoise which has crazy fast keyboard shortcuts to do much of what you did here. But hey, different strokes. The end result sounds great!

A lil preface - the Wall of Sound is a technique by the crazy killer guy (Phil Spector) where a large ensemble of instruments play the same passage, but add enough variety so that when it comes to post-production.... they all blend together to create an atmosphere indistinguishable from the other.

Finally a video that shows a sequencer synth being used for guitar based tune as 99.9% of everything else on RU-vid is for techno dance. Anyway, it's a real sweet tune and a great step by step video. I don't have a Deluge but after this vid I think I may get one 😊😊😊😊

Great tutorial. I like all of the techniques you're using to make the built in sounds feel more organic (and meld in nicely with the audio tracks). Keep 'em coming!

Nice! I've had the Deluge for two years and there are still entire workflows (like this one) that I haven't gotten to yet. Thanks for the great video.

Very helpful, I record synths and guitar onto the deluge and its nice to see your workflow, there are so many little things to learn to get the most out of it.

I never would have guessed the end result based on your process. Truly unique way of making an average recording sound damn good and useable. and a really legit result to boot

Another excellent tutorial! Thanks a lot!

this was extremely helpful, thank you for taking the time to make this guide

Great job! Good explanation of the workflow with Deluge. 👍👍👍

Thank you for sharing. High quality content. Great work, comes across as honest and personal. Useful details, no fluff. Very cool.

Thank you, Simon. This is a super generous tutorial.

Wow, just got you to 1k subscribers!! Congrats! Love your videos so much. As a deluge owner it’s like hearing the voice in my head as I go through my own workflows. It’s been too long since I’ve fired it up and you’ve inspired me to get back to it.

This is awesome man

Great job Simon. I really appreciate how you run through the steps. Instructive but not overbearing. Timeline on the side is awesome as well.

Wow, I'm really impressed! I learnt so much watching your video

I get more tips per minute out of your videos than anyone else - please keep up what you're doing mate, it's an excellent format and makes this thing so much more approachable and fun.

this is exactly the kind of thing i want to see if this machine can do. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really good tutorial! Makes me wanna pull out the guitar and record some..

Awesome piece of trivia about Phill haha . Never knew why it sounded good to double track . Thank you!

Great tutorial, thanks Simon

nice video!!!

Well done

I love the guitar and drums, I wish I could play the guitar now, soooooo nice!! I would like to add a song to that. I love that simple style, super!! Love the drums sound too, samples??I liked the more simple version of the song in the beginning a lot, sometimes we want to add too much but I guess I like simple tunes and a nice voice across it all. Its a super nice song though

Great tutorial, I am impressed that you got a reasonable sound out of that mic.

I've owned this thing for 2 years, watched many sampling videos, read manual and never realized that double tapping the cut off marker for a sample deleted the extra measure(still not sure it deletes it from memory.) Thank you. Very cool tips, trucks and song

You're great.

00:00 -Intro 00:35-Creating a Kit track 00:55 Creating an Audio track 0125-Guitar backing track # 1 02:05-Audio Clip length 02:35 Guitar backing track #2 03:50-Phil Spector's Wall of Sound 04:45-Guitar backing track #3 06.00-Filter sweep automation 08:40 - High Pass filters 10:30-Adding Reverb 11:00-Adding bass 12:25-Adjusting the bass sound 1325-Sidechain and Chorus 14:35-Creating a new synth 15:35-LFO and pulse width 17:25-Note velocity and Random 19:05-LFO and LPF sweeps 20:10-Recording the synth 20:30 Editing the recorded notes 21:20 Playback start location 22:55-Ping pong delay 23:15-Custom drum kit with samples 24:35 Creating more dynamic hihat hits 25:45-Guitar melody/sclo 27.55-Recording the lead guitar 28:50-Adjusting the guitar sound 29:30-Boosting guitar levels with Saturation 31:15-LPF automation for the guitar 32:00 Closing thoughts 32:30 The final result

Nice!

I will probably never be able to buy a Deluge, and my guitar playing is terrible, but you presented this all so neatly that I stil subcribed for more.

Hey Simon, nice tutorial 🙌 I‘m playing guitar + Model:Samples at the Moment but for the future I hope to have an additional machine to extend my palette. Espacially the guitar line-input option seems very usable for me. Have you tried I with something like an Strymon Idridium or Helix?

i stuck between this and the force. you think the deluge could be used for recording full songs and arranging parts? (say i record a verse, chorus, etc separately). i work in IT and want to make demos away from the computer to give my eyes a break. this has been years long struggle for me. once i have arrangement and demo then i'd like to take it into a daw (i dont care if i need to re-record)

I love the videos! Though, getting white light blasted by the subtle screens is no fun.

I think it was easier to simply use the overdubbing feature. Sets the length of the consecutive clips automatically and you can layer in no time.