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The Deluge is one of the best devices I have ever owned. I used to play with individual software synthesizers for a while and also tried to connect them to DAWs
by ruph123 3y ago
The Deluge is one of the best devices I have ever owned. I used to play with individual software synthesizers for a while and also tried to connect them to DAWs but it never clicked. Playing with a synth was always really fun but not so putting it all together.
The Deluge freed me from my desktop, from endless screen time and it allows me to create. It may not be perfect and it may not be perfectly DAWless solution for many because of some missing features like mastering and compression. But for me as a hobby where I just waste time on making crappy electronic music of which 95% will never reach the ears of anyone else (besides my poor wife) it is perfect.
Of course it can also be used by more serious musicians. But for my it enables a unique way of playing with music which I have never experienced anywhere else. And it finally is a DAW which I can (almost) 100% understand.
- bodge5000 3y agoThis is something I've found to generally be the case, hardware synths just generally have nicer workflows than DAWs. The common response you hear to pro-hardware is that a DAW can do so much more, to which I always think that may be true, but it doesn't matter how much the software can do, it matters how much you can do with the software. The closest I've come to a hardware like DAW is Renoise or Drambo (for iOS devices), but even they're missing something for me. I've never tried the Deluge myself, but I would really like to.
- pnw 3y agoNothing killed my creative instinct quicker than having to mess with a PC based DAW and sequencer, and all of the attendant software complexity. Even worse, it’s online so distractions are just a click away.