Dave Smith Instruments Temptest, Operation Manual

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Page 3: ...nual Operation Manual by Roger Linn Andrew McGowan Riley Smith Version 1 4 Feb 2015 Dave Smith Instruments 1527 Stockton Street 3rd Floor San Francisco CA 94133 USA 2015 Dave Smith Instruments www dav...

Page 4: ...vice must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference Causing Equipmen...

Page 5: ...5 Sound Bank B 6 Selecting Sounds by Category 6 16 Mutes 7 16 Time Steps 8 16 Tunings 9 16 Levels 10 Pad Options 11 Reverse Playback 12 Roll with Arpeggiation 12 The Screens Keys 14 Events Key The Bea...

Page 6: ...46 Beat FX 46 Note FX 47 Rec Edit Keys 49 The Click key 49 The Undo Rec key 49 The Erase key 49 The Copy Key 50 The Edit Function 53 1 Copy Sound 53 2 Initialize Sound 53 3 Rename Sound 53 4 Copy Bea...

Page 7: ...ing Files 67 System Settings 68 System General 68 System Foot Pedals 69 System MIDI Remote Pad Play 70 System MIDI Polyphonic Keyboard Play 72 4 MIDI Sequencer Out Channel Off 1 16 Selects the channel...

Page 8: ...Rory Dow Peter Molettiere and Riley Smith The DSI crew Ashely Bellouin Fabien Cesari Bob Coover Carson Day Chris Hector Tony Karavidas Mark Kono Andrew McGowan Joanne McGowan TracyWadley and MarkWilco...

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Page 11: ...tem ninety panel controls and graphic OLED display work together to provide a tightly integrated fast non stop workflow in which nearly all creation editing arrangement and manipulation operations occ...

Page 12: ...or B sounds Roll for repeating notes or beat stutter Fixed Level to defeat touch sensitivity or Reverse to play backwards Select what s on the screen the functions of the pads a grid showing drumbeat...

Page 13: ...16 Beats key is pressed you can use the sixteen pads to play the sixteen Beats that are loaded in memory After you create a Beat you can save it as a Beat file for later reloading into another projec...

Page 14: ...tQuant End BtRoll 8th Swing 50 0 Pad Hold Off Proj Saturday night gig Intro Busy SwgBt Break SloFil On2 4 4Kicks BigBt FillBt Quiet 4hats SwGrv HlfTm PwrBt Brkbt Endng Soft Knob 1 Beat Quantize When s...

Page 15: ...nds with your hands placed in the center of the pads We suggest that you create your beats using this same arrangement Quant 8th Revert Snd Swing 50 0 Sound Type Load Sound Tamb Shaker Claps Block Rim...

Page 16: ...ry For convenience the sounds in Tempest s internal sound set are grouped into categories This makes it possible to quickly navigate through these categories to select the general type you re looking...

Page 17: ...trols affect beat wide effects just as they do when 16 Beats is selected Swing 54 All On BtRoll 8th Tom1 Splash Tom2 Crash Tom3 Ride Snare Bass HatOp HatCl Snar2 Bass2 Shaker Claps Tamb Clave Soft Key...

Page 18: ...120 0 1 1 1 16 Steps 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 7 1 3 7 1 1 13 1 3 13 1 1 19 1 3 19 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 2 7 1 4 7 1 2 13 1 4 13 1 2 19 1 4 19 Bt 14 Swing beat 100 bpm Snd A12 Boomy Kick See 1 1 1 Soft Knob 1 Quantize...

Page 19: ...C3 D4 Major Quant 4th Octave Root C2 Soft Knob 4 Scale Offers a variety of musical scales for the 16 pads major minor chromatic etc Soft Knob 2 Octave Permits the pads tuning to be shifted up or down...

Page 20: ...100 bpm Snd A12 Boomy Kick Soft Knob 1 Quantize When recording Beats in real time notes are moved to the nearest 1 8 1 16 note etc set here This is also used for the Note Roll rate plus the step size...

Page 21: ...ad Function 16 Sounds 16 Tunings or 16 Volumes While playing if Roll is on and a sound pad is held repeated notes will be created at the Quantize rate Set in the 16 Sounds screen Varying pad pressure...

Page 22: ...tails about the Beat Events screen see Events key the Beat Events screen on page 15 While playing a Beat in 16 Beats mode Reverse causes all of the Sounds in a Beat but not the Beat itself to play in...

Page 23: ...peggiator Parameters Mode Assign Sets the order in which notes play See the table below Retrig Retriggers the sound on the pressed pad Tempest s original roll behavior Up Plays from the lowest numbere...

Page 24: ...s parameters for oscillators filters VCA envelopes LFO and modulation paths To see and learn about these screens read the Sound Controls section of the manual The Play List key This function allows yo...

Page 25: ...time press the Page Up or Page Down keys To view higher or lower rows of Sounds turn the Row soft knob To Edit a Note Event Press Shift turn Soft Knob 3 Quantize to adjust the size of each time step c...

Page 26: ...ime period before the Release envelope phase begins Tuning Changes the Pitch of the note in semitones 60 to 60 FX1 FX2 FX3 FX4 Note FX 1 4 directly control the Note FX Destinations as assigned in the...

Page 27: ...e soft knob 4 to edit the current value of the selected parameter Shift Soft Knobs 3 4 Quantize Swing Quantize sets the time resolution of the grid from 8th notes to 32nd triplets Triplet values show...

Page 28: ...that if Play List is off pressing the Events key displays the Beat Events screen If Play List is on pressing the Events key displays the Play List Events screen PlyList Evnts Insert Step 120 0 1 1 1 S...

Page 29: ...T Rec Off 2 5 Basic 4 count beat 7 bars Bar 2 1 bar Bar 9 3 3 Basic beat with fill 4 Play List 1 Favorite arrangement End Loop to Step 2 1 12 Four hihat ticks 1 bar Bar 1 Soft Knob 3 Select List Turni...

Page 30: ...add to the play list 8 Using the End soft knob select either a Stop or b Loop to Step x any earlier step depending on what you wish to happen when the play list plays past the last step 9 Press Play t...

Page 31: ...press a new beat pad Notice that the previous step s Bars duration is now set to the number of bars that the previous beat played and the next step s Beat field has been filled with the new beat you...

Page 32: ...22 The Screens Keys Dave Smith Instruments...

Page 33: ...accessed only in special Sounds screens All sound parameters can be visually edited by pressing the Sounds key in the Screens section There are a total of sixteen different sound parameter screens To...

Page 34: ...24 The Sound Controls Dave Smith Instruments If the Sounds key is pressed one of the following screens appears Use the four arrow keys to move between the screens...

Page 35: ...25 Tempest Operation Manual The Sound Controls Use the four arrow keys to move between the screens Pre Post Filter...

Page 36: ...truments OSC 1 SUB OSC LEVEL PRE POST FILTER AMP VOLUME FEEDBACK LEVEL FEEDBACK LOOP VCA PAN L R SUB OSC OSC 2 OSC 3 OSC 3 LEVEL OSC 4 LEVEL OSC 4 LPF HPF OSC MIX TEMPEST VOICE ARCHITECTURE Modulation...

Page 37: ...sed sounds includ ing different types of noise samples of acoustic and electronic percussion and single cycle waves from the Prophet VS The digital oscillators are converted to analog and pass through...

Page 38: ...illator 1 and 0 oscillator 2 A setting of 0 100 is just the opposite A setting of 50 50 is an equal mix of both Pitch C0 C10 Sets the base oscillator frequency over a 10 octave range from 8 Hz to 8 kH...

Page 39: ...note is held until the next note is played This effectively allows glide to be turned on and off just by playing staccato or legato FixTime Glide is set to a fixed time regardless of the interval bet...

Page 40: ...as two octaves up or down in semitone increments A setting of 0 indicates there is no offset and the oscillator plays at its base pitch Note A few of the sounds for example some of the noise types ar...

Page 41: ...the interval the longer the transition time The glide rate is fixed FixRate A The same as FixRate but glide is only applied when playing legato That is glide only occurs when a note is held until the...

Page 42: ...evels of resonance can cause the filter to self oscillate In 2 pole mode resonance is much more subtle Audio Mod 0 127 Controls the amount of audio from oscillator 1 used to modulate the filter cutoff...

Page 43: ...frequencies Turning the control up attenuates frequencies below the cutoff at a slope of 12dB octave Key Freq 0 127 Sets the amount of modulation from the note number from either the beat the pads or...

Page 44: ...e on page 26 for more information Note Because the feedback loop is taken from the left output pan settings and modulation will affect the behavior and level of feedback so be careful and maybe turn d...

Page 45: ...itch Lowpass Amp Aux1 Aux2 Choose one of the five envelope generators to edit AD Mode Off On Percussive sounds typically have a fast attack and then decay to silence with no sustain When AD Mode is on...

Page 46: ...ombination If Amount is set to 127 Velocity Amount will not have any effect regardless of the setting or the velocity with which the pad is struck because the modulation amount is already maxed out Wh...

Page 47: ...is used as the modulation source and the mod destination is that same envelope s decay with a mod amount of 60 figure C is with a mod amount of 60 Modulating an envelope segment also changes its lengt...

Page 48: ...ycle lasts 16 quarter notes 8 Qrtr One LFO cycle lasts 8 quarter notes 6 Qrtr One LFO cycle lasts 6 quarter notes 4 Qrtr One LFO cycle lasts 4 quarter notes 3 Qrtr One LFO cycle lasts 3 quarter notes...

Page 49: ...for the LFO that you want to edit 3 Press the Page Right right arrow soft button to display the restart param eter for the LFO s wave cycle 4 Turn soft knob 4 restart and set the chosen LFO s wave cyc...

Page 50: ...source for the selected mod path See Modulation Sources on page 78 for a complete list Use Source to route external MIDI controllers to Tempest s mod destinations Amount 127 127 Sets the amount of th...

Page 51: ...ly allocated voices Multiple Sounds can be assigned to a single voice and will still steal the voice when two or more notes play simultaneously Again using a high hat as an example assigning the diffe...

Page 52: ...d to a Specific Voice 1 In 16 Sounds pad mode and Sounds edit mode press Shift then Mod Paths or repeatedly press the Page Down or 6 key to navigate to the Misc screen 2 Tap any pad to select a Sound...

Page 53: ...ly Because the parameter values can be very different for different sounds the individual parameters are moved proportionally in a way that results in the overall change sounding very natural If the S...

Page 54: ...ction pressing Pads and Sounds together which causes the Mixer screen to appear Use the Page Up and Page Down keys to switch between the four mixer screens below This screen adjusts Volume Pan Mute an...

Page 55: ...k briefly holds the envelope at its peak value delaying the transition from attack to decay This can add extra punch to a Sound s attack Decay 0 127 Sets the decay time of the Compressor Amount 127 12...

Page 56: ...ts alter the sound of the Beat Now hold Shift and press the left Latch On key then move your finger on the left slider as the Beat plays Notice that you hear a different sound change because you ve ju...

Page 57: ...as the Beat plays Notice that you hear a different sound change because you ve just selected the alternate FX3 function for the left slider If you move the sliders while recording a sound pad into a...

Page 58: ...ft the right Latch On key toggles the right slider between its FX2 and FX4 functions Bt 14 Swing beat 100 bpm Snd A12 Boomy Kick Note FX1 Slider1 Pos 64 Osc Pitch Note FX2 Slider2 Pos 25 LP Freq Note...

Page 59: ...g Undo Rec will undo all recording changes made during the last recording pass since the moment you started the Beat playing with Rec on and will turn off the light Pressing it a second time will Redo...

Page 60: ...and press Play 3 Hold both Shift and Erase then during the time that the notes to be erased are playing also hold the sound pad for those notes The Copy Key Tempest s Copy function allows you to be s...

Page 61: ...lement to off will exclude it 5 Tap the pad you want to copy from 6 Tap the pad you want to copy to 7 When finished release the copy button When choosing a destination for a copied Sound tapping the s...

Page 62: ...e sounds button 3 In the rec edit section press and hold the copy button 4 Use the 4 soft knobs above the display to select the elements that you want to copy kits sequence params beatfx Setting an el...

Page 63: ...any Beat over another Sound within the same or a different Beat Enter the Source Beat and Sound the Destination Beat and Sound then press the Copy Now soft key Note that while Pad Function is set to a...

Page 64: ...Note that while this screen is active the Page Up key becomes Insert Char inserting a new character into the name and the Cursor Up key becomes Delete Char deleting a character from the name 7 Copy Ba...

Page 65: ...eat new time signature and number of bars then press the Set Sig Now soft key 11 Rename Project This renames the currently loaded project Use the Select Char and Edit Char soft knobs to edit the name...

Page 66: ...lected Playlist to the default blank settings allow ing you to create a new Playlist Turn All Notes Off Tempest is capable of being played from the internal sequencer the pads and MIDI simultaneously...

Page 67: ...you are making beats and sounds it s good to get in the habit of saving your work often and occasionally backing your work up via MIDI Beats include all Sounds used in them and Projects include Beats...

Page 68: ...aracter highlighted by the cursor 7 Press the Save Now Soft Key Sounds are saved to one of several folders in Tempest s flash memory They can also be exported and saved as system exclusive MIDI data S...

Page 69: ...flash memory They can also be exported and saved as system exclusive MIDI data See page 64 Loading Sounds Beats and Projects A Sound is loaded into RAM from flash and assigned to one of Tempest s pads...

Page 70: ...to load only the sounds from any Beat file This has the advan tage that any Beat file can be used as a sound kit file Sequencer Note FX Only sequence and Note FX settings will be loaded Beat FX Only t...

Page 71: ...press the Next Soft Key 2 Choose the Folder and File and press the Next Soft Key 3 Press the Load Now Soft Key to load the Project 4 Press the Again Soft Key to load another file or Save Load to exit...

Page 72: ...ed or saved setting of it s Beat Exporting Sounds Beats and Projects Sounds Beats and Projects can be exported over MIDI to a computer applica tion or hardware device capable of recording SysEx data M...

Page 73: ...e named and saved for backup and importing into Tempest 9 Press the Again Soft Key to export another file or Save Load to exit To Export a Beat from RAM over MIDI 1 Connect Tempest to the receiving de...

Page 74: ...hen be named and saved for backup and importing into Tempest 7 Press the Again Soft Key to export another file or Save Load to exit To Export a Sound Beat Project from Flash over MIDI 1 Connect Tempes...

Page 75: ...ss Save Load and choose Export Sound Beat Project in RAM over MIDI or Export Saved File over MIDI Sound Beat Project to transfer the data The slave does not need to be enabled to receive the transfer...

Page 76: ...e not been saved to flash or exported they will be lost Files imported into RAM need to be saved to flash or they will be lost when the power is cycled Files imported into flash need to be loaded into...

Page 77: ...before the selected character Use Delete Char 5 key to delete the selected character 4 When the name is complete press Rename Now 5 Press Again to rename another file or Save Load to exit Deleting Fi...

Page 78: ...n the category and adjust the Parameter Value using soft knob 3 System Categories General Foot Pedals MIDI Remote Pad Play MIDI Polyphonic Keyboard Play MIDI Clock MIDI System Exclusive BPM Swing Comp...

Page 79: ...erator This is useful for example if you are using Tempest with an external MIDI sequencer and wish to avoid sounds playing twice for each pad hit due to notes being sent and rerouted back over MIDI t...

Page 80: ...ansmitted but clock and start stop continue messages are Note When 16 Tunings is selected the same MIDI note number is sent for all 16 pads using the note number assigned to the sound pad playing from...

Page 81: ...u try to assign a MIDI note that has already been assigned the display will read Used Pad and show the pad where the MIDI note has been assigned The following table shows the General MIDI standard dru...

Page 82: ...t based continuous controllers such as pitch bend mod wheel and aftertouch are ignored IMPORTANT The MIDI Synth IN Channel must be set to a different channel than Remote Pad IN Channel in order to fun...

Page 83: ...from the incoming clock and the value displayed by Tempest is subject to round ing and the accuracy of the master clock In other words Tempest s displayed BPM value may be slightly different from the...

Page 84: ...and have the swing amount change when a different Beat is selected set this to Beat factory default If you wish to use the Project s swing setting so that the swing amount stays the same regardless o...

Page 85: ...pest s Sound Sliders is recorded per step This does not allow for auto mating effects such as smooth filter sweeps In realtime mode the two sound sliders affect Note FX for a sound in realtime during...

Page 86: ...select the Sound 7 Tap Tempo behavior Shift On Play Shift Held Play With Tempest s default behavior Shift Held Play must be held to tap the tempo Otherwise Play starts restarts the Beat whether Shift...

Page 87: ...77 Tempest Operation Manual System Settings...

Page 88: ...e Filter Envelope Amp Envelope Aux 1 Envelope Aux 2 Envelope LFO 1 LFO 2 Velocity Note Number Noise Random Pad Pressure Slider Position 1 Slider Position 2 Slider Pressure 1 Slider Pressure 2 Foot Ped...

Page 89: ...ency LFO All Freq LFO 1 Amount LFO 2 Amount LFO All Amount Pitch Env Amount Filter Env Amount Amp Env Amount Aux 1 Env Amount Aux 2 Env Amount All Env Amount Pitch Env Attack Filter Env Attack Amp Env...

Page 90: ...LinnDrum Bass 909ish 808ish Long Time 808 Cut the Mustard Electron K Flab Solid Early Nineties DigiBonk Woosh Kick Dirty Woosh Distorted 09 Grain Granny Bit Reduction Back Scatter Crunchy Distorted Bu...

Page 91: ...Snare Edge Heavy Pedal Edge Pedaled AM Half Edge Open Edge Sharp Closed Sharp Pedal Sharp Half Sharp Open Zilch Closed Zilch Pedal Zilch Open Pastey Pastey Half Heavy Closed Heavy Open Boss Closed Bo...

Page 92: ...s Mid Res Floor Nice Hi Nice Mid Nice Floor Punchy Hi Punchy Mid Punchy Low Hi Maple Mid Maple Low Maple Blue Tom Hi Blue Tom Lo Tonic Tom Hi Tonic Tom Low Acoustic Hi Acoustic Low Tom Splat Thudd Tom...

Page 93: ...rum Conga Tambourine Tambo Ring TamBell Metal Tamb Wood Tamb LM 1 Tamb LinnDrum Tamb Raucous Tamb Tri HiFi Short Triangle Noisy Bell Flexi A Flexi B Stick on Metal Clank Sounds Like Abrupt Metal 808is...

Page 94: ...Orient HighPipe Mass ReedOrg OrgAhh MelOrg Clarinet AhhFem AhhHom AhhBass RegVox Vocal1 Vocal2 Harmony Bass Guitar Nice WWind Oboe Harp Pipe Hack1 Hack2 Hack3 Pinch BellHrm BellVox Hi Harm Hi Reed Bel...

Page 95: ...lems The Real Time FX sliders are not behaving as expected or don t seem to go full range In the System menu choose Calibrate Slider 1 and Slider 2 Position and follow the instructions to calibrate th...

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