What a synthesis: beautiful tune captured in rich tone where I lose myself, and text explaining what's happening when I find myself again for a moment. Thank you!
Love how you leaned into the old retro sounds here, and you're right these tracks seem to enjoy eachothers company. I'll be back to listen to this again, thank you!
Happy to find this.....I'm a fellow Delusionists (as well as a Hydra owner) If you feel the synth engine is a bit limited...I was blown away the first time I played the Deluge via MIDI, and had the velocity to add in expression, etc. The whole box just came alive and jumped to another level....Great melodic sensibilities... Great tones, nice combination of sounds, phrasing and flowwwww love that pitch wobble @ 8:07 like a capstan or tape pinch on a vintage tape machine.... the added ambient audio at the end is a nice touch, Great upload bro
Awesome video and performance. Your comments about the Deluge make me laugh. I feel the same about so much of the gear I have in my studio, especially the yamaha an/dx100s and korg electribes. Takes forever to program up a song, but the reward is on the backend performing it and twiddling the knobs!
I'm guessing that is an old CrO2 tape you are using. That might explain the signal loss in the right channel. I have a 30 yr-old tape with a live Primus show on one side and Dark Side of the Moon on the other that now plays both sides simultaneously, although one side is reversed... very entertaining!
Nice work man. I've been experimenting with a korg nanokontrol 2 with my Deluge as a performance tool and it works well. It's small, cheap, simple, doesn't need power, but it means you can quickly have hands on control of levels, cutoff, saturation, whatever you map for multiple tracks with less time critical finger gymnastics involved in a performance
I've also started using my nanokontrol 2 with the deluge and I love the combination! The way I am currently using it is by having each "channel strip" on the nanokontrol control one instrument clip, with the fader for volume, the knob for some macro and the three buttons for triggering different variations of the same clip. It prevents me from overthinking because I am limited to eight instruments per track, making the creation process much more straight forward and live-friendly.
Are these patches from scratch or Boards of Deluge? I completely agree with you about the Deluge. Love the immediacy of sketching ideas, but I did find the sound designing to be rather bland. Had one and ended up selling it for some other gear. I do miss it. Awesome work, Jay. Edit: I had typed this comment out prior to the end of the video! So disregard that question!
Did you write the melodies on the first one? I love it! If so, with your permission of course, I’d like to recreate it, or a slight rendition of, on my iPad in AUM. You’ve got yourself a new subscriber btw!
Jay Hosking Cool! No, I don’t sell tracks. I just play music for fun. I’m trying to convince myself that I don’t “need” a Deluge (as bad as I’ve been gassing for one haha) So I’ve been challenging myself to recreate things entirely on the iPad. I’ll share it when it’s ready! Edit: here’s what I came up with ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c43wkDHU4ic.html
@@JayHosking Oh i see. Do you see any way to get the same effect as part of a live setup? So the cassette "effect" can be heard immediately not only in the recording.
Really nice song! I love my Deluge. One comment - there is a master filter, just push the "affect entire" button when you're in song mode, and everything is global. :-)
Yeah, great point. I should definitely use affect-entire more. Although when I said master-level filter, I imagined it a little more like the Circuit or Octatrack, but your point is good. And thanks!
@@JayHosking I've had neat results using competing filters - using automation to open up an instrument filter while using affect-entire to shut down the global filter, for example. I love your work, keep it up!
Very different beasts. The Deluge is a fun groovebox that’s great for generating melodies and ideas quickly. Although lots of people use it for sampling and love it,it’s never really clicked for me. Octatrack, on the other hand, is a kind of sample mangling/editing that makes more sense to me, and the device is a little better suited to dynamic live performances. They’d make a great team, I’m sure. And thanks!
