Synthstrom Deluge

The Synthstrom Deluge is a synthesizer, sampler and sequencer in a single box. It probably does other things too, but they don’t necessarily begin with the letter ‘s’. Anyhoo, a second hand one came up on Reverb shortly after I’d got paid for doing something or other. And the rest is the usual, predictable, history.

It is very nice. It has gold and black knobs and you control it by pressing coloured buttons that light up. It has a view of song structure that seems to make sense to me and doesn’t have the usual limitations on the number of tracks or voices that you usually get with devices like this. If you want to have 10 drum tracks you can have 10 drum tracks. You can then group them together so that you can control them all at once during a performance. Samples are played directly from an SD card (which can be very big) and the processor will keep on adding voices until it detects that it is running out of steam. The built-in synthesizer sounds are very nice too.

The manual is very thick, but I’m working my way through it at the moment.