Most of my recordings the last few years have been done on fairly limited equipment: a Fender Jazz bass, a few effects pedals, and some processing on the computer. Over the last decade, I’ve compiled a series of sketches, but life and work being what they are, I haven’t had time to do much more.
I recently picked up a Synthstrom Deluge. It’s a wonderful little blinky box, but I’m still learning all the capabilities. Workflow is shockingly easy to manage, and considering my last real experience with MIDI was when the Roland Juno and DX-7 were the big things, it’s quite powerful. I’ll be gaining back some significant free time in the near future, and this should be a great palette to work with.
So far, I’m just poking around the parameters, and everything sounds like 1997 trance. It’ll be a bit before I can build a sample library and work my voice around this, but for now, enjoy.