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Page 2 Deluge’s top panel: what we previously referred to as a “track”, we now call a “clip”. Your Deluge’s “TRACK” button is what this manual is referring to when it mentions the “CLIP” button. This is simply a matter of language, and your Deluge’s user interface remains unchanged aside from the new features which the V3.0...
Page 3 New sections 3.0 ● Recording count-in ● Audio clips ○ Audio clip length editing and changing of waveform loop points ○ Grabbing tempo from an audio clip ● Recording notes or audio into an arrangement ● Audio track names ● Audio track input sources ●...
Page 4 ○ Signal flow ○ Sample interpolation / pitch ● Applying FX at the song level ● Factory reset ● Importing a whole folder of samples as a kit...
Page 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS New sections 3.0 New sections 2.1 Instrument clips, and clip view general Sequence editing basics Synth and kit presets Kit clips Sound parameters Scrolling and zooming Editing clip length Shifting clips’ contents horizontally Scales Notes of different length Editing note velocity Note probability and iteration dependence Triplets view...
Page 6 Input sources for recording Arming clips to record Recording a clip / loop Overdubs - regular Overdubs - continuous layering Setting the tempo with the first-recorded loop Further notes on overdubs MIDI control of looping Arranger view Arranging clip-instances Inserting / deleting “time” Clip-instances unique to the arranger “Dragging”...
Page 7 Recording samples Recording additional samples to an existing kit Resampling / recording the Deluge’s output The sound editor Sound editor shortcuts Sound editor nested menu Decimal values Applying changes to all sounds within a kit Modulation Modulation to control the depth of another patch “cable”...
Page 8 Tempo and syncing Setting tempo Swing Syncing Tempo magnitude matching Sync-scaling MIDI control of functions and sounds Settings menu Global MIDI commands Factory reset Hardware connections USB host mode for MIDI devices DC power socket (9 - 12V) Battery SD card slot L / MONO and R outputs Headphone output Line input...
Page 9 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 before actually placing those notes in the sequence.
Page 10 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 as XML files - if you remove the card or delete certain files from it, you will no longer have access to these presets.
Page 11 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 12 In kit clips, 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 clips, 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 13 If you wish to instead affect the sound of the entire kit clip, 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 14 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 15 In the horizontal dimension, let’s first look at zooming. By default, each column of pads represents a 16th-note step. 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 16 “space” you have created. Or if you reduce a c lip ’ s length to half or less of the grid, the Deluge will automatically zoom in to display the remaining area in more detail.
Page 17 Deluge will examine the notes that are present, and make an educated guess as to their scale and the scale’s root note / key. 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 18 s cale mode. Correspondingly, when the Deluge guesses the scale and root note when re-entering s cale mode, the contents of all s cale clips will be considered. So if you’re wondering why the Deluge threw some extra notes into your scale that you didn’t expect,...
Page 19 (enter a note at the first, leftmost column, then hold ◄► while pressing the last pad at the rightmost column). The Deluge treats such notes as a special case, and will keep the note permanently sounding rather than restarting it each time the clip’s sequence loops.
Page 20 probabilities being treated independently. This allows you to have a point in your sequence where, at random at each iteration, one of several different potential notes will sound - but never more than one of them. There is another special function, for notes at the same time (horizontal) position that have the same probability number: they will always either all play together, or all not play - so you could have a whole chord which either all plays, or all doesn't play.
Page 21 If you are recording and your song doesn’t contain an audible beat 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 22 Copying and pasting notes The Deluge allows you to copy and paste the notes in the time-region occupied by its pads (the “current view / screen”) at your current scroll and zoom position. To copy notes, hold the learn button and press down on the ◄ ► knob.
Page 23 r eleases . Once a parameter has automation applied in some region of a c lip , the Deluge considers the parameter to be automated entirely, with its previous unautomated value applying in all other regions.
Page 24 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 25: Audio Clips
Much like instrument clips, which play sequenced notes in sync and as part of the currently loaded song on the Deluge, audio clips allow an audio recording to be consistently played or looped, or even recorded, in sync with the Deluge’s other functions. Audio clips will always be time-stretched...
Page 26 When you edit the waveform start and end points for an audio clip in w aveform view , you are selecting the portion of the waveform which the Deluge will stretch between the start and end of the audio clip - whose length is tied to the song’s tempo - e.g. “1 bar long” - and will not change.
Page 27 Deluge is p laying , or not. When the Deluge is p laying , pressing the “launch” pad will usually not cause the clip to stop or start immediately - it will instead become a rmed ( indicated with fast blinking on its "launch" pad).
Page 28 Any time that a clip is a rmed , a number will be displayed, blinking fast, on the Deluge's numeric display. This represents the number of complete or partial "loops" (usually of the longest currently playing clip) that have yet to complete before the current armed action takes place.
Page 29 Additionally while holding down a pad on a c lip in such a way, you may change the c lip ’ s preset or MIDI or CV channel - the current one will blink on the Deluge’s numeric display, and you can turn the select knob to change it, or even change the ...
Page 30 By default, launching a section will stop any clips 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 clip) before switching to the "next" section (vertically below it on the Deluge's grid of pads).
Page 31 Recording into clips, and live looping, in song view Recording clips - both audio and instrument - in song view is the means by which the Deluge can be used as a looper for audio and MIDI - both live looping as part of a performance, and as a means of recording audio clips as part of a music creation workflow.
Page 32 Recording a clip / loop Once a clip is c reated , armed (it will be armed by default - see above), and has its MIDI or audio input set ( a udio input is set to LEFT by default ) , it will be ready to begin recording as soon as playback is begun with the record button illuminated.
Page 33 This tempo-determining recording will happen automatically anytime you record an audio clip loop in song view if you have no other clips playing, the metronome is off, and the Deluge is the syncing master. The feature is not currently available for instrument clips.
Page 34 Further notes on overdubs Since each overdub exists as its own clip, the user is free to mute, delete, or apply FX to each one individually. Also, the recording of each clip / overdub counts as a separate step which may be undone and redone by pressing back or shift+back respectively - or via MIDI commands - see ...
Page 35 Unlike , which displays each c lip as a row of pads, in a rranger view each row s ong view represents a t rack (which has one synth or kit instrument or MIDI or CV channel, or is an audio track).
Page 36 Clip-instances unique to the arranger When flicking through the available c lip s for a c lip - instance by holding it and turning the select knob (see above), there will also be a "white" option. This creates a new, blank c lip...
Page 37 Or to switch from song-view p layback to arrangement playback, enter a rranger view , scroll to where you want playback to start from, and hold down the ◄► knob and press play. After the current loop finishes, arrangement playback will begin from there. Managing tracks in arranger view Tracks can easily be muted or unmuted by pressing the mute pad on their row.
Page 38 The available audio input sources are: ● LEFT (default) - the left or mono channel of the Deluge’s line or mic input. Use this if using the Deluge’s internal mic, or recording a mono source with an unbalanced cable. ●...
Page 39 Arrangement recording from song view You may wish to place c lip - instances in an arrangement by way of recording a “performance” in song view , launching and stopping c lip s as you wish and tweaking parameters as you go. In ...
Page 40: Keyboard View
) , you can undo your most recent editing action by pressing the back button. You may step backward through as many past actions as you like, subject to the Deluge’s RAM capacity. You may also redo by pressing shift+back.
Page 41 c lip view , s ong view or a rranger view , whichever you were in. Or, if you will be overwriting an existing song, the Deluge will prompt “OVER”...
Page 42 You may do this from s ong view , c lip view or a rranger view . The Deluge will blink the text “NEW”, warning that whatever song is currently in memory will be cleared.
Page 43 Or, if the Deluge is playing synced as a slave, the tempo will remain the same regardless, with the t empo magnitude matching setting taking effect if enabled. Collect-media tool This tool collects together all contents and sample files which a song file uses, allowing you to transfer the song to another SD card, or give it to another Deluge user.
Page 44 Alternatively, if you wish to enter the file browser to load an audio file as an a udio clip , see that section for instructions.. Additionally, some .wav and .aiff files contain tags specifying sample loop points. The Deluge will read these if they are present. See w aveform view for further info.
Page 45 (You will have to scroll vertically to see them all if there are more than 8.) There is a slight CPU overhead for each sound present in the Deluge’s currently loaded song - even if it is not sounding at a given moment. This may begin to affect CPU performance if you have more than 50 to 100 sounds loaded.
Page 46 Samples may also be used as the basis for a melodic instrument which, just like any other synth on the Deluge, may have a melody sequenced for it in c lip view , or may be played in k eyboard view ...
Page 47 “A3”, and that “Eb comes before “E”. Only the ordering of the files is important though - the Deluge does not read the actual note names - just looks at the files’ ordering and then uses its pitch detection for the rest.
Page 48: Recording Samples
Slicer The Deluge has a basic slicer function, to allow you to create a kit whose sounds are the various evenly-sized slices of one audio file. To do this, create a new kit as above, but when selecting your file, press and hold down on the select knob.
Page 49 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 50 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 51 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 52 ○ VOLU m e ○ TRAN s pose - in semitones (with cent adjustment) ○ TYPE - the wave type: contains basic digital waves (SINE, SAW, SQUAre, or TRIangle); analog modeled waves (ASAW, ASQUare); SAMPle; or IN (expandable to INL, INR, and INLR - s ee l ive audio input...
Page 53 ○ FEED b ack ○ RETR i gger phase - same as for OSC1 ● MOD2 ( modulator 2) - only available for F M synths. Same as MOD1, plus... ○ DEST i nation - whose frequency this modulator modulates. Can be set to CARS (both carriers), or MOD1 (modulator 1) ●...
Page 54 ■ 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 55 Modulation 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. Most parameters, but not all, may have modulation sources patched to them.
Page 56 Try patching it to pitch or LPF cutoff ● X and Y ( coming soon) - MIDI MPE support will be added in a future Deluge firmware update. These modulation sources refer to the horizontal and vertical sideways pressure which a user of an MPE-compatible MIDI controller may apply to each key with the finger pressing it.
Page 57 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 58 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 59 c lip view , and if you try to load it in the l oad preset interface, the Deluge will display a “USED” error...
Page 60 Deleting sound presets While in the l oad preset interface, you can press shift+save to delete a preset - the Deluge will prompt “DELE” on its display; press save again to perform the deletion, or the back button to cancel.
Page 61 Audio and synth engine Signal flow...
Page 62 Processing power and CPU management The Deluge doesn’t enforce firm limits 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. Whenever this happens, the Deluge will switch off a synth or sample voice to lower its load.
Page 63 Deluge. By default, when you load a sample on the Deluge, its pitch and speed are linked. If you change it’s pitch up or down, the sample will become shorter or longer, respectively.
Page 64 1 bar, 2 bars, or 4, etc…). When playing, the sample will be time-stretched to occupy the entire length of its “note”, at whatever tempo the Deluge is set to. The user may manually shorten or lengthen the “note”, too, to stretch the sample to a shorter or longer time.
Page 65 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 66 LPF frequency, for instance. Reverb The Deluge has just one customizable reverb “unit”, to which different sounds may send. This means that different sounds may have different reverb “amounts”, but other reverb parameters such as room size and dampening are global across all sounds. Any change you make to them will apply song-wide.
Page 67: Waveform View
You may 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 68 (CV) according to different standards, and their gate / trigger inputs may be either polarity. The Deluge has been designed to support the widest range of CV / gate standards possible. A number of settings are available in the ...
Page 69 The Deluge’s CV outputs’ range is 0V to 10V. 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.
Page 70 The Deluge can also act as a MIDI-to-CV/gate converter. To do this, create a CV clip, and then “learn” a MIDI channel to it Gate outputs (including outputs 3 and 4) can be controlled independently of the CV outputs - see below.
Page 71 Next, we’ll assign one of the gold p arameter knobs to a MIDI parameter. Press down on one of the p arameter knobs . The word “NONE” will blink on the Deluge’s text display, indicating that no assignment exists yet.
Page 72 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 73 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 74 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 75 ● Ensure that your MIDI controller device is appropriately connected to the Deluge - either by physically connecting its MIDI output to the Deluge’s hardware MIDI input, or by using software to route the MIDI to the Deluge via its USB connection, or by having the Deluge host a USB MIDI controller...
Page 76 ● 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” pad (second from right; green or red) belonging to a clip in ...
Page 77: Settings Menu
s ound editor - refer to its chapter for instructions on menu navigation. To enter the settings menu from any of the Deluge’s main views, hold down the shift button and press down on the select knob.
Page 78 ● DEFA u lts - these let you set the default features applied to a new, blank song when it is created - for instance when the Deluge is first powered on. All except SCALe (which has its own RANDom option) allow you to set a range within which a value will be picked at random.
Page 79: Hardware Connections
To unset the command, simply turn the select knob, or set a different one. Factory reset Almost all of the s ettings menu settings are stored in the Deluge’s internal memory, as opposed to the SD card. To restore the Deluge’s default factory settings, switch it on while holding down on the select knob.
Page 80 A battery of any mAh rating may be used - higher mAh ratings simply mean longer battery life. Please note that your Deluge will be shipped with very little charge in the battery. You will need to plug it into a power source to use it and begin charging the battery.
Page 81 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 82 Mic input For recording with an external microphone with a 3.5mm jack. Gain is set via the “mic gain” switch, which also affects the internal microphone. Stereo and mono microphones are supported (and automatically detected). 4.5V plug-in power is supplied on the tip and ring of the connector, each through a 3.9k resistor.
Page 83: 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 84 SYNTH PRESETS 2.1 Rich saw bass FM bell modulation 10 Chiptune trill Sync bass FM lead Basic square bass Distant porta FM rising attack Synthwave bass Nasal choir Distorted lead guitar Dubby bass Bandpass choir Bass guitar Sweet mono bass ...
Page 85 PW organ Ghostly sines 6 Short sharp delay PW envelope FM theremin 6 Dark chorus FM narrow band Bio lab Phaser Deep fizz Sootheerio Chillout pad Techno organ Sounds after take-off Sweep chords Define leader Evolving frequencies ...
Page 86 Crystalline ringmod Detuned saw pad Hang drum Satellite drum Slow aural swells Double bass Hard tech beat Ringmod pad Sitar 1. Marcel Bellve, tinyurl.com/y73dozlt 2. NJM, soundcloud.com/staysun 3. Guilherme Gomes, ohdeo.com 4. Steve Swisher, y outube.com/steveswisher 5.
Page 87 9 RX-5 10 XV-5080 11 KR-55 12 HR-II 13 AT Rhythm 14 CR-78 ARTIST PACKS 15 Andrew Stirton (Frugal) Electronisounds Electronisounds Electronisounds 19 Fairburg 20 Leonard Ludvigsen «hodeur» «hodeur» «hodeur» 24 James R Closs 25 James R Closs 26 amiga909 27 Reciprocal Sound 28 Danny Taurus 29 Danny Taurus...
Page 88 40 John Atkinson 41 Jonathan Snipes (Waterfalls) 42 Phil Elverum Andrew Stirton (Frugal), s oundcloud.com/frugaltunes Fairburg, fairburg.bandcamp.com Electronisounds h ttp://electronisounds.com Leonard Ludvigsen aka Icoustik «hodeur» h ttps://soundcloud.com/hodeur James R Closs, h ttp://redmeatrecords.uk Amiga909, https://mixcloud.com/roman_hats/ Reciprocal Sound, h ttps://reciprocalsound.com/ Danny Taurus, ...
Page 89 Ping-pong on/off P4 LED on, push URPK Delay style: digital/analog P4 LED on, push LLPK Compressor sync: 32nd/8th P5 LED on, push URPK Reverb room size P5 LED on, push LLPK Effect song or kit: chorus, flanger, or P6 + Affect Entire LED on, push URPK phaser Effect song or kit: depth, offset, feedback P6 + Affect Entire LED on, push LLPK...
Page 90 Select clip for overdubbing via global MIDI Enter clip, or hold clip row in song view + press LOOP or commands LAYER command Arranger View Place clip-instance Press one of the main Grid pads Delete clip-instance Press clip-instance’s left-most Grid pad Clip-instance length Hold clip-instance start Grid pad + tap end Grid pad Move clip-instance horizontally...
Page 91 Parameter Automation With record LED on, turn Parameter knob Per note parameter change Note start Grid pad + turn Parameter knob Delete parameter automation Shift + push Parameter knob Clear clip Push ◄► knob + back Load sample Audition pad + load Enter Sound Editor Shift + (shortcut labeled) Grid pad or push Select knob Begin playback from current screen...
Page 92 Create drone note Create a note that occupies the visible screen length Assign midi CC to Parameter knob (MIDI Push Parameter knob + turn Select knob track) Kit Clips Change colour of a specific kit row Shift + Audition pad + turn ▼▲ knob Create new kit Shift + Kit Save kit preset...
Page 93: Compliance Information
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.
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