Mr_Clark1000

Hi, New here, just managed to snag a deluge and got it yesterday - only played around a bit with it but so far, seems to be, by far, the most intuitive, easy to use and simple way to put beats together, almost in a way where whatever you imagine in your brain can be directly transposed into reality - very weird, as my experience so far has always been one of wrestling with whatever instrument it was I was using to make it do what I wanted - the Deluge is something special in that it doesn't fight you in any way, very strange!

This is something simple I put together in about 20 minutes and first few hours of having it:
https://youtu.be/O9iA789ijfo

My story up until this point was, played a little guitar terribly in my teens, bought a Uke a few years ago just to mess around with, then last year decided to buy a little Korg Volca Bass just to make noises - it snowballed from there....

Next was a Novation Circuit, then Korg Monologue, then a. Microfreak, then Korg Minilogue, all the while I was getting frustrated with not being able to do all the sounds I wanted, just one particular sound at one particular time, the use of iPad apps, mixers and such made it difficult to just make some sounds whenever I had some very small time (two young kids, full time job etc.)

So next came something awesome, that was the OP-Z, I had that coupled with a Dreadbox Typhon - that combo sounded insane, was great, but still not ideal as the OP-Z was somewhat limited and the coupling with the Typhon meat it wasn't very portable. I picked up a Digitone too, which I absolutely loved.

Next I thought, sod it, sell those and get an OP-1, which I did... But I truly regretted getting rid of the OP-Z as it was truly portable and so much fun to use.

So, I tried to just get along with just the OP-1, which is good for just a little bit of noodling, but trying to put together whole tracks was / is time consuming. The Deluge popped up in my YouTube sessions and eventually I caved in, on the premise that I would either keep the OP-1 or the Deluge, not both.

So here I am with the Deluge, loving it, finding that it does everything so well, apart from one thing which I am sad about, and that's the ability to use it outside in sunshine, it's a bitt difficult, Muscle memory might help here but I have a feeling it's not going to be ideal.

So, looking to keep the deluge and get another OP-Z for outside noodling.

This whole thing turned out to be super expensive, but I guess it would have been money I would have spent on going out on the razz, but not last year!