Peace With It
By ModuLoBro on January 4, 2026 8:15 pm
Hiya! First, thank you to the people who coordinate and run this beast. So great!
I decided after signing up that I would make most if not all of my WB26 tracks using my Synthstrom Deluge. (Whoa - wasn't that expensive when I bought it!) My goal is to (re)learn the Deluge and get faster with it, and get to know the amazing firmware updates made by its developer community.
About this track specifically, I wanted to learn more about the FM synth engine on the Deluge, so I made the kick, snare, closed hat and open hat sounds from scratch with it. The bass is FM too, but not my design. The others are subtractive. I love the Deluge's sidechain compression, so I used it liberally. 
I wanted the track to be soothing but with a few fun details. "Peace With It" refers to the feel of the piece but also the feeling of, "omg it's my first submission.... aaaaand it's fine. It's actually fine." I was really careful not to let myself obsess. For WB, I just want to learn and enjoy myself.
I mixed on the Deluge, using Bobby Owsinski's simple but helpful "start with the star" method – zero everything, then get most important track (kick) peaking at a nice pre-master level (eyeballed that with the new VU meter view), then add the next most important making sure it doesn't overshadow the star, repeat.
Resampled the Deluge's stereo output to its SD card, then brought the file into Logic for a tiny bit of mastering in Ozone 12 – mainly bringing the overall level up and taming the very low end.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
