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! 🙂
so much great information in here, wicked stuf mate!
this is pure gold. thank you for this!
Cheers for this. really useful tutorials.
More please .. kick drums part two…
Soon my child. Soon.
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Agreed – these posts are awesome!
happy i sold this garbage
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. ?
Sara,
I left a response on the DSI forum.
http://dsiforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=27145#27145
I’ll try to get more recipes up soon (been busy!)
Cheers,
Stim
thanks for these great tips!
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thank you very much for this great job .
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!
wow thanks for this, I’m just getting into my tempest and I’m super excited. Thanks for all the info here 🙂
Thanks.
Merci pour ce guide. =)
Atomic machines !!!!! and Atomic web site
This is great, thanks, but where is the surdo tutorial? I would really love to read that…
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.
Your sysex patch links are broken.
Thanks for the heads-up Ron. They should be working now.
amazing, thankyou
Amazing resource! You’ve helped me achieve more than I imagined with this little beastie
Thanks a lot for your work, and your Sysex files are the cherry on the cake!!!
Hope you are fine with your new muse 😛
Cheers
Brice
Thanks 🙂
I’ve turned my dissatisfaction into a positive attempt to build my own sequencer. With success!
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… 🙂
See for yourself…
https://stimresp.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/bjorklund-first-session-simple-rhythms/
🙂
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
Yes.
Care to elaborate? 🙂
RTFM! 🙂
This had me scratching my head as well… The sine wave and square wave can be found in Osc 3 and 4.
Big thanks mate, you’ve really helped open up the Tempest for me, new songs abound!
You’re welcome dude!
this is amazing