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  • Page 2 Synthstrom Audible Deluge Instruction manual We created a set of walkthrough videos to accompany this manual. You can view them ​ h ere​ . This manual is a work in progress and will be updated as we add new features.
  • Page 3 Power Group Trigger Clock Parameter Affect Group CV & Gate Group 5. Menu & Settings Group a. Select/Settings Knob Synth Midi Keyboard Mode Scales Cross Screen Edit Midi Group Stereo Output Navigation Group a. Back Load Save...
  • Page 4 Learn Headphone Jack​ Tempo and Timing Group Tempo Swing Tap Tempo d. Metronome Sync-Scaling Triplets View 11. Sampling Group Line In Gain Internal Mic 12. Mode Group a. Play Record c. Shift Audition/Section Mute/Launch SD Card Slot Grid Zooming and Scrolling...
  • Page 5 The file browser and loading samples Adding samples to an existing kit Loading a sample for use as a melodic “synth” instrument Slicer Recording samples Recording additional samples to an existing kit Resampling / recording the Deluge’s output The sound editor Sound editor shortcuts...
  • Page 6 Sound editor nested menu Decimal values Patching Patching to control the depth of another patch “cable” Assigning knobs to parameters Saving sound presets Sound editor for MIDI and CV tracks Time stretching and pitch shifting Live audio input Sidechain compression Reverb Sample and RAM management Processing power and CPU management...
  • Page 7 Line input Mic input CV, gate, and trigger clock (“CLK IN”) connectors MIDI implementation chart SYNTH PRESETS KITS ARTIST PACKS Popular commands - quick reference Compliance information FCC compliance for United States CE compliance Environmental Protection...
  • Page 8 Pressing the Deluge’s “play” button plays the entered sequence. With each row representing a different pitch, the user may wish to audition any of the available pitches in advance of actually placing those notes in the sequence.
  • Page 9 Synth and kit presets The Deluge comes with a variety of synth and kit sound presets for you to use. The user may also create, edit and save their own. Presets are stored on the SD card - if you remove this or delete certain files from it, you will no longer have access to these presets.
  • Page 10 These are set up to time-stretch​ so that they always play at whatever tempo you have the Deluge set to. When you create an instance of one of these samples, again it will appear as one long “note” occupying many pads horizontally - however many it needs based on its length.
  • Page 11 In kit tracks, each sound / row has a different colour. The colour of an individual row may be altered by holding the shift button, holding the audition pad (far-right) for the row, and turning the ▼▲ knob. For kit tracks, the sounds / rows may be re-ordered. To do this, hold down the audition pad (far-right) for the row, and hold down the ▼▲...
  • Page 12 If you wish to instead affect the sound of the entire kit track, press the “affect entire” button so that it is illuminated. The ​ p arameter knobs ​ will now affect the output of all sounds within the kit. Three of the parameter functions are labeled “custom”...
  • Page 13 Several ​ p arameter knob ​ functions have an additional function which can be enacted by pressing down on the knob. Most of these toggle related parameters, notifying the user of the new value via the Deluge’s text display. Parameter knob function /...
  • Page 14 In the horizontal dimension, let’s first look at zooming. By default, each column of pads represents a 16th-note. Pressing down on the ◄► knob will cause the Deluge to indicate this “zoom-level” on its numeric display: “16th”. Suppose you wish to instead edit “finer” detail in our sequence - 32nd-notes.
  • Page 15 If you extend a track’s length beyond the right-hand side of the current grid, you will be scrolled right automatically to see the new “space” you have created. Or if you reduce a track’s length to half or less of the grid, the Deluge will automatically zoom in to display the remaining area in more detail.
  • Page 16 Deluge will examine the notes that are present, and make an educated guess as to their scale and the scale’s root note. For instance, if the Deluge detects the presence of a minor third note relative to the root note, it will be likely to conclude that the scale is minor.
  • Page 17 16th notes ​ a nd ​ all notes created will be a 16th note long. (It should be pointed out that for longer samples such as many of those provided in the Deluge’s supplied kits, notes longer than one pad will automatically be created - see ​...
  • Page 18 With electronic music equipment in general, the resulting effect is most commonly a difference in volume. This is how most of the Deluge’s included synth and kit presets are set up to respond to velocity. However, velocity can in fact be patched to almost any parameter in the Deluge’s synthesis and sampling engine, making it simply a tool with which you can make...
  • Page 19 If you are recording and your song doesn’t contain a beat or anything to help you keep time, you may wish to enable the Deluge’s metronome, which can be done by holding the shift button and pressing the tap tempo button.

  • Page 20: Clear Track

    ​ p arameter knob ​ for that parameter. Or, if the parameter was instead controlled via a knob on an external MIDI controller, automation may be deleted by putting the Deluge into ​ r ecord ​ m ode, holding down "shift", and turning the knob on the MIDI controller.
  • Page 21 4 times? This is the situation in which the Deluge’s ​ c ross-screen edit ​ mode is helpful. At any given zoom level, if you enter ​ c ross-screen edit ​ mode, then any editing you do will apply not only to the part of the sequence that you are currently scrolled to, but also to all other “screens”...
  • Page 22 For instance, you may have the Deluge outputting a melody via MIDI to an external synthesizer, which may also have parameters such as LPF frequency controllable by MIDI CC messages, allowing this parameter to be controlled by the Deluge.
  • Page 23 Deluge is ​ p laying ​ , or not. When the Deluge is ​ p laying ​ , pressing the “launch” pad will usually not cause the track to stop or start immediately - it will instead become ​ a rmed ​ ( indicated with fast blinking on its "launch" pad).
  • Page 24 This is achieved on the Deluge by grouping tracks into "sections". The section that a track belongs to is indicated by the colour of its “section” pad (far right) in ​ s ong view ​ . Tracks whose “section”...
  • Page 25 By default, launching a section will stop any tracks which belong to other sections. It is also possible to instruct the Deluge to play a section for a fixed number of repeats (of its longest track) before switching to the "next" section (vertically below it on the Deluge's grid of pads).
  • Page 26 Many of the same controls available in ​ t rack view ​ are also available in keyboard view: the preset may be changed by turning the select knob, and sound parameters may be altered by turning the (gold) parameter knobs. ​ S cale ​ mode may be entered and exited, too. While the keyboard in ​...
  • Page 27 You may do this from ​ s ong view ​ or ​ t rack view ​ . The Deluge will blink the text “NEW”, warning that whatever song is currently in memory will be cleared.
  • Page 28 The file browser and loading samples A basic function of the Deluge that you’re likely to want to use is the ability to load samples from the SD card for playback and sequencing.
  • Page 29 The Deluge will briefly blink the message “SLIC”, and then prompt you to select a number of slices. The default is 16, and you may change this by turning the select knob.
  • Page 30 Resampling / recording the Deluge’s output The Deluge can record its audio output to a file on the SD card. This is useful both as a sonic tool, where the user may create interesting sounds on the Deluge and “resample” them for further use, or to allow the user to make high-quality recordings of compositions or performances.
  • Page 31 16x8 grid of pads, or via a nested system of menus navigable using the select knob and the text display. Sounds on the Deluge may be based on synthesis, samples, or a combination of the two. Basic waveforms can be used, without the need for any pre-recorded wave data. Or, samples can be used and manipulated in much the same way that basic waveforms can.
  • Page 32 This is the simplest way to access the ​ s ound editor ​ . Most of the pads in the Deluge’s main 16x8 grid have a shift-button shortcut for the editing of one sound parameter. Holding down the shift button and pressing a given pad while in ​...
  • Page 33 As with all other menus in the Deluge, one menu-item at a time has its name (as a 4-character representation) shown on the text display. Turning the select knob flips through the different items in the menu. For instance, the first two items in a synth’s ​ s ound editor ​ m enu are “OSC1”...
  • Page 34 ○ REVE​ r se - reverses the sample ○ MODE ​ - can be set to: ■ ONCE - the sample plays once, always the whole way through. Good for drum samples ■ CUT - the sample plays once, but may be cut short at the end of the “note”...
  • Page 35 ■ RATE ○ PRIO​ r ity - allows a sound to be prioritised so that its voices won’t be switched off if the Deluge’s CPU becomes overloaded. Settable to LOW, MED or HIGH ● FX ○ DIST​ o rtion ○...
  • Page 36 ■ TREB​ l e ■ BFRQ ​ - bass frequency ■ TFRQ ​ - treble frequency ○ DELA​ y ■ AMOU​ n t - the effect level and feedback, combined ■ RATE ■ PING​ p ong - stereo effect, ON or OFF ■...
  • Page 37 Patching refers to setting a parameter in the sound engine to be modulated by a modulation source, such as an envelope or LFO. The Deluge allows most parameters to be controlled by any number of the available modulation sources simultaneously.
  • Page 38 Having covered how to set the depth by which a given modulation source affects a given parameter, you may also wish to modulate that depth with… another modulation source. The Deluge is capable of this complex patching arrangement - but only for one “cable” (i.e. source-parameter combination) per sound.
  • Page 39 To unassign any MIDI knobs from a parameter, navigate to the parameter’s value and hold shift while pressing the learn button. Only MIDI knobs can be unassigned in this way - the Deluge’s own parameter knobs can only be unassigned by assigning them to something else.
  • Page 40 Deluge. By default, when you load a sample on the Deluge, its pitch and time are linked. If you change its pitch up or down, the sample will become shorter or longer, respectively.
  • Page 41 If the note that you play on the Deluge is a middle C (C3), the input sound will play back with its pitch unaffected. However, any deviation from middle C will shift the input sound’s pitch up or down a corresponding amount.
  • Page 42 You may still eject the SD card at any time, the only adverse effect being that if the Deluge is playing any sample, it may stop, and samples may not play correctly until the card is reinserted.
  • Page 43 Processing power and CPU management The Deluge doesn’t have a firm limit set on how many tracks or voices may sound at once. It allows the user as many as they wish - however, inevitably, the Deluge’s CPU may become overloaded if too many voices or effects sound at once.
  • Page 44 ● S-trig - represents a note being on by “shorting” out the output to ground. When the note is off, the the Deluge “pulls up” the output’s voltage to 12V or 5V (selectable) with a 10K resistor: this is not a strict part of the S-trig standard but many devices do this and it is believed to be fully compatible and safe (see disclaimer above), and is in fact necessary (​...
  • Page 45 Trigger clock The Deluge has a “trigger clock” input, allowing it to play as a slave to hardware which outputs a clock signal containing any number of “pulses per quarter-note” (PPQN). It can accept any voltage between 3.3V and 12V. Clock steps are read on the rising edge of the pulses. A device which has a ​...
  • Page 46 MIDI beat clock (via either hardware or USB MIDI) or a trigger clock signal. The Deluge will begin playing as a slave as soon as it begins to receive a MIDI beat clock or trigger clock (if trigger clock auto-start is enabled - see the ​...
  • Page 47 Deluge will accordingly multiply or divide the tempo of the incoming clock so that the tempo at which the song on the Deluge plays is as close as possible to the tempo that the user had it set This is useful in a couple of scenarios: ●...
  • Page 48 MIDI beat clock - dividing the entire loop into, say, fours rather than sevens. The solution is to tell the Deluge to scale the incoming 4:4 MIDI beat clock into a 7:8 one, so that a 7:8 sequence created on the Deluge would play perfectly synced to the 7:8 guitar loop, despite the incorrect 4:4 MIDI beat clock passing between the two devices.
  • Page 49 MIDI to the Deluge via its USB connection. ● Hold down the learn button on the Deluge, and then also hold down the button or pad on the Deluge for the function that you wish to assign MIDI control to - for instance, a “launch”...

  • Page 50: Settings Menu

    ● While holding these two buttons / pads on the Deluge, press the button or key on your MIDI controller that you wish to assign to this function on the Deluge. The button / pad that you are holding on the Deluge should begin blinking pink to indicate that MIDI control is assigned.
  • Page 51 ● CV ○ OUT1 ​ a nd ​ O UT2 ■ VOLT​ s per octave - can be set anywhere from 0.01 to 2.00, or to HZPV (Hz per volt) ■ TRAN​ s pose - pitch adjustment in semitones, with cent adjustment ●...

  • Page 52: Hardware Connections

    MIDI output to the Deluge’s hardware MIDI input, or by using software to route the MIDI to the Deluge via its USB connection. Then, hold down the learn button and press the button or key on your MIDI controller that you wish to assign to this function on the Deluge.
  • Page 53 Deluge. The Deluge will display the text “UPDA”, followed by a spinning animation which may last up to half a minute or so. The Deluge will then display the text “DONE”, before booting up on the new firmware, which will now be permanently installed.

  • Page 54: Headphone Output

    Headphone output This can drive headphones, or can be used to connect other equipment with a 3.5mm connector - perhaps computer speakers or a car stereo. Line input For recording from another device’s line output. This is a ¼” TRS connector, which may accept a single-ended / unbalanced signal, a differential / balanced signal, or a stereo signal (this mode is automatically detected).

  • Page 55: Midi Implementation Chart

    MIDI implementation chart Message type Transmitted Recognised Velocity Note on Note off Aftertouch / pressure Polyphonic Channel Pitch bend CC, general (Where numbers assigned by (Parameter must be “learned” user - see ​ M IDI CC control and by user - see ​ A ssigning knobs sequencing ​...
  • Page 56 SYNTH PRESETS 0 Rich saw bass 34 Saw sync 68 Harsh FM feedback 1 Sync bass 35 Basic FM 69 FM guitar power chord 2 Basic square bass 36 FM basic bass 70 Saturated filter 3 Synthwave bass 37 FM rich brass 71 Saturated sync 4 Dubby bass 38 Soft FM...
  • Page 57 KITS 0 TR-808 1 DDD-1 2 SDS-5 3 TR-909 4 R-50 5 R-100 6 LD 7 HR-16B 8 SCDT 9 RX-5 10 XV-5080 11 KR-55 12 HR-II 13 AT Rhythm 14 CR-78 ARTIST PACKS 30 Chaz Bundick 31 Reuben Winter 32 Kody Nielson 33 Alfred Darlington 34 Travis Egedy...
  • Page 58 Popular commands - quick reference Cloning a track In “song view” hold down a pad on the track you would like to clone and then touch any pad on another row. If you press a pad on a row already occupied with another track, it will simply move that existing track out of the way. Changing the “section”...
  • Page 59 Changing note velocity The deluge’s pads are not velocity-sensitive, but notes created as part of a sequence may have their velocity manually edited. To do this, hold down the pad corresponding to a note and turn the ◄► encoder. The right-most two columns of pads will act as a level-meter to indicate the note’s velocity.

  • Page 60: Environmental Protection

    Compliance information FCC compliance for United States This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • Page 61 © Synthstrom Audible 2017 Deluge instruction manual First Edition v1.2 www.synthstrom.com www.facebook.com/synthstromaudible...

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