Bay_Mud

...OK, maybe not everything, but a lot of things can be modulated by the sidechain (and different drums can trigger by different amounts, etc.).

I've been busy moving cities, but wanted to do a video where I started from a brand new synth patch and only edited the sound via patching parameters to sidechain. Some of it is more useful than others (sidechain to increase the arp rate can be very fun), but thought I'd share.

@Lawnbear said:
and its kind of tough to open a Bin Compressed file Zip file i think Synthstrom need to do a compatible update on firmware

You don't have to do anything with the BIN file except put it in the root folder of your card. Very easy.

I ended up opening my Deluge up today and it wasn't too bad aside from the 32 screws that hold the circuit board to the face plate. I was able to use some cleaner on the shaft of one of my gold knobs (didn't need to spray from the bottom). Not sure how much it helped, but it seems a bit better. I also tried cleaning the contacts of my pads, but that was trickier.

My play button was quite worn (noticeably less black conductive material on the underside of the pad. In the end I used graphite on the offending pad. This helped a bit, but I'm not sure how long it will last (it didn't last long, so I added tiny pieces of adhesive foil tape, which seems more robust for now). I also swapped the row of pads for play, rec, shift with the ones for tap-tempo, sync scaling and triplets, as I never use those anyway. I'll get some new pads if I ever end up doing the OLED retrofit.

I'm going to leave it open for a bit, to be sure. I did notice the screw holes of my wood sides have started to split at the corners, so just keep an eye on that if you do open it op. I've got mine clamped with some wood glue to help strengthen then back up before I reassemble it all.

@mumblethief said:
My ears perk up whenever I hear "Deluge" and "tempo change" in the same sentence. I've fiddled around with a couple different approaches to making that work on the deluge, and I'd love to hear how you approached the challenge.

I love everything about the EP too! I didn't connect the dots at first, but when I put together who posted this, it made a lot of sense. If I'm remembering correctly, you seem to make a lot of more traditional pop songs (or however one describes songs with melodic singing versus pure synthesizer) using the deluge as your DAW? That's something I fumblingly aspire towards myself, and it's inspiring to see someone pull it off so well. I also recall you being located in Ontario? Give a holler if you ever play a show in Peterborough ;0)

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, I come from a more guitar-based indie background and have played Peterborough a few times over the years with my wife in our garage-folk duo, Dog Is Blue. Hope to get back there soon!

For the Dog Is Blue stuff I usually use the Deluge as a sort of 4-track recorded to arrange/flesh out demos before moving in to Reaper. I'd love to merge the electronic/folk worlds at some point though.

My Bay Mud stuff is almost all Deluge though.

As for the tempo change, I tried a few different methods.

• The simplest was to just create different song projects for the different tempo parts and switch between them, but that felt a bit bloated and harder to keep together/arrange.

• Then I tried only one project, but using the undo/redo function to jump back and forth between the different tempos. This worked well enough to get things demoed and time the vocals, but was a bit finicky (especially if I had to undo anything else).

• In the end, after I used the undo/redo method to get things timed well enough, I created a Reaper project that had tempo markers at the various spots that changed speeds. The Deluge responded to these tempo changes via MIDI. Finicky to set up, but once I got it right it was very easy to work with.

Most of this EP wouldn't have been nearly as challenging had I not also been trying to record the vocals directly into the Deluge via a mic connected to the mic input. In future, I'd probably record the instrumental stuff into Reaper then do the vocals there, but this was a fun experiment.

@Louis_in_The_Lab said:
I know exactly which song I was in when the device shut down. Are there any key words I should go look for in the XML code for the song?

If you know the precise song causing the issue (which is a big help) I'd suggest collecting the files using the "collect" feature and emailing it to Rohan to help diagnose.