Tempest Recipes

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Here are my collected notes on synthesis with the DSI Tempest.

Note: This series is now concluded. Thank you for your kind words of encouragement – they wouldn’t have been written otherwise.

Here are some sysex kits and sounds I remembered to backup before I sold my Tempest.

Good luck Tempesters! 🙂

  1. First things first – what you MUST know.
  2. Bass Drums part 1
  3. Cowbells
  4. SID sounds
  5. HiHats, shakers, zaps
  6. 1-Voice Chords
  7. Snare drums
  8. Tom-Toms
  9. Apito – The Samba Whistle
  10. Donk Bass
  11. Sub-bass
  12. Bass Drums Part 2
  13. Congas
  14. Tuned woods, sidesticks and clicks
  15. Bells and alien idiophones
  16. Claps

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  7. Thank you very much for this !

    Would you have some recipes about how to make physical modeling percussion sounds ?
    like making a timbre metallic or wood for example, and how to work envelopes to make it sounds like hitting a string, or an elastic, etc. ?

    Reply to sara

  11. Great stuff. Im just gutted you sold your Tempest so there will be no more tutorials! Thanks for the guidance, this is my first “drum” based synth so its been a great help!

    Reply to Andrew

  12. wow thanks for this, I’m just getting into my tempest and I’m super excited. Thanks for all the info here 🙂

    Reply to alpha

    • Hi,
      Never got as far as writing the recipe for that, but I do remember getting good results from a filtered triangle with 2 gentle pitch envelopes, and using pitch and filter LFOs to get a nice interesting tail. Think along the lines of a flabby kick layered with a tom.
      Also, important the ensemble surdos are often tuned and interweave with other tuned percussion to produce melodies. Check the web for details.

      Good luck.

      Reply to stimresp

  20. Cool, is it a software or hardware Sequencer?
    I did some sequencers as well with Reaktor, max/msp and max4live and the lemur a while ago, it was quite great but CPU hungry and some bugs made it a bit of a pain to have a fluid workflow… 🙁
    Now I am full hardware and very happy with the Cirklon, and can avoid the computer if I want to… 🙂

    Reply to AcousmatiK

  21. Hi.. im a total newb to Tempest.. I dont see a sine wave in the oscillators… you use it in a few of your drum tutorials….
    am I missing something obvious here

    Reply to james