Deluge 1 Year Review - Would I Buy It Again??

I went to bed last night thinking I might do a review of the Deluge after owning it for all this time, and then woke up to this! Haha, I might wait a bit longer then. Great points you're making here ❤

As a complete noob to anything but guitars and upright piano…….this spaceship has taught me so much. Great video dude ✌️

I love that they keep improving that single machine instead of abandoning it like most other companies do.

It is also an Open Source platform, which means it's gonna have long life span with community updates.

Excellent video, my friend! Keep it up.

So so so tempted to go in on this. The DAWless workflow is amazing. I love hardware synths and it seems like an amazing "brain" that will grow with my setup, a fantastic song composer, and absolutely amazing performance device. Gotta get my hands on one sooner rather than later.

Of all the music gear I've owned, the Deluge is my absolute favourite. I've had mine since 2017, and its still super inspiring and fun to use. I upgraded to the OLED display last year, and just love it. I really hope the awesome open source devs can manage to somehow create a way to easily automate the export of arrangement stems... Its my only real frustration point (I like to finish and polish my tracks in Ableton - currently exporting individual tracks from Deluge is about as nightmarish and cumbersome as can be imagined haha - I solo each track one by one, and internally sample back to SD card... but even so, considering how awesome it is in other regards, I guess I can continue to make do with the manual export process 😊). Nice video - and yeah, I totally agree with you!

What the heck, this video will probably change my life substantially and sustainably. Thank you, thank you for introducing this fascinating almighty instrument.

Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience...I'm on the fence on the Deluge....it's a tad north of my budget...but well see...

Gotta love the blinky lights.

background music was cool. sounded like a track from ambient works aphex twin but can't remember which one.

Bro! I appreciate your content. Tell me if you see any Downgrades when Iam about to use it for creating music in 432/444hz. Does it have a fine tunning option? Or Am I limited only to my samples and can or cannot I use automatic scales on the device?

Id buy again!!!!

I'm very torn between this and a Squarp hapax. My main concern is the ability to easily transition between songs in a live setting and general playability/ groovability. How does the deluge work for transitioning between tracks?

try the open-source OS; there's a 'keyboard' of 4x4 pads for the kit now, so that you have access to 16 velocity levels per sound. game-changer.

I have OP-z, OP-1 and several POs, I love the OP-1 and POs while OP-z always been a steep learning curve to me for some reason. Could the Deluge be considered a more intuitive and powerful OP-Z kind of device?

I had 2 and sold both. Constant crashing with samples, my SD card dropped inside the last one and an insane amount of menu diving/short cuts. Its definitely one for the dedicated. The only good thing about it was the grid and arranger. But i find the Oxi One far more powerful for midi programming and its a better/sleeker built unit.

Aside from the fact that mine just died, and it cost me over $600 to repair (not including shipping)......I do still love mine, and I've had it since 2018...........it just keeps getting better.......................

I will never sell my Deluge. The company hit the product perfectly. They don't try to squeeze every last dime out of You by putting out newer and better versions. They just upgrade the software to this one and send you a new faceplate or display. All companies should be like this

Yep! My centre piece of my setup. Only one instrument that for sure will stay with me forever. BTW: you can mimic velocity sensitive pads with a newest community software update - there is a mode where each "pad" is represented by a few physical pads (with one colour) and depends where you press you have different velocity.