Unlocking the samples within the DSI Tempest (and some file management tips)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Digging in to the DSI Tempest I found out that it was not easy to access all the amazing samples that are within. Here are some tips and tricks that I found in regards to accessing and creating patches/sounds, beats and project management to easily access these gems.
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Just a quick tip as not many people know that and I believe it's not mentioned in the manual. When you hold shift and you scroll through the sound list, you will be scrolling through the whole group of sounds, so press shift, turn knob, and you will skip all noises, then one more knob turn and you go through all kicks, another and snares, and so on.
That was a lot of work that you done, and this is very interesting approach, congratulations!
That’s a good tip as well that I did not know, thank you!!
I did not know that thank you. I absolutely love my Tempest
Christ what a game changer lol.
thx @@Genital.Wartzenegger
For anyone trying this awesome tip out I wanted to clarify where this works... this is for when you are in the Osc 3 or 4 and are scanning the list of samples.
This is an amazing and seriously useful tip!
Thanks for sharing @slawekwojtaszek9893
So blessed to finally see some new tempest videos out. I’ve had mine for about a year now and it’s such a beast but there is no advanced content out there.
Subbed and can’t wait to see more from you
Thanks for saying so and I will definitely be putting out more Tempest videos. I have a few ideas already and you should start to see some here in the next week or so. Thanks for the sub and the purchase.
The samples are where the Tempest shines. If people treat it more like a drum sampler and less like an analog drum machine then you'll really have fun with the Tempest! Plus, the aftertouch rolls can make you sound like the best gospel drummer.
I could not have said it better myself. I’m gonna have to explore those aftertouch rolls you were talking about
How do you access the aftertouch rolls? I dont see that option in mod paths.
Yes I want to know this as well
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Me three for aftertouch rolls
Im Curious in this point, would like to programming breakbeats with humanized flavour
Great tutorial, a ‘making a beat from scratch on the tempest’ type video would be a amazing resource, not many around atm.
Great suggestion! Will make that happen
@@_justin_joe Tons of Drums pack elevated my experience with it, thanks for putting all this effort into making it
@@OMA_Music_Official That makes me so happy to hear that! Going to do more vids on the Tempest as I learn more.
Neat vid. I've had mine for a few years and love it. She looks naked without the side panels. Thanks for the efforts!
Haha. I thought it looked pretty clean without the side panel so I left them off last time. I had the unit open.
Glad you’re enjoying the bids. I’m hoping to do some more more Tempest videos soon.
@@_justin_joe so there are no side panels at all? I which i could get some plain metal ones.
Purchasing the pack, I started doing this but renaming things takes too long so this is saving me a ton of time.
I would love to see an fm tutorial I haven’t had much luck finding anything about it
Thanks so much for the message and thank you for purchasing the pack. It makes the time I put into it worth it :-) I’m not a huge FM expert, but I will look into this and possibly make a video in the future regarding it.
Tip I just realized the other day:
Play a beat, alter the beat parameters while playing till you like say the new kick drum at lower osc pitch (for example) YOU CAN SAVE THAT KD TO KICK DRUMS and it will sound exactly as it sounded with beat/parameter effects. Saves lots of sound design time.
You took the wooden panels off? Looks good, thanks for the vid :-)
That’s a great tip. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah I took the sides off for a small repair and decided I like the way it looked too
Im pretty new to electronic music and bought a tempest about 3 years ago. While fun, its been quite frustrating and probably isn't a great machine for starting on. As you mentioned, the tutorials are near non existent and the dude that sequential has doing some instruction comes at it as if I should already know about how it functions. In the process of learning how to save a beat/ project I managed to lose all the sample beats the machine came with, which for me, seemed to give me a starting point to create something. Ive attempted to try and follow instructions to re-establish these sample beats,( which may sound crazy to some, since they aren't really that great) but I haven't had any luck.
Just wanted to say, that I really appreciate you posting this video. Ive learned more from watching this 13 minute clip than I have from any other tempest tutorial.
Thank you.
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Oh wow, thanks for the amazing compliment. I plan on continuing to do Tempest tutorials this next year.
In regards to your comment about losing the factory content you liked for a jumping off point, have you tried or considered reloading it to you Tempest via sysex?
@@_justin_joe yes thanks, I actually I figured it out yesterday.
Thanks for explaining! Just got a Tempest and had been wondering about the exact same things. The Tempest looks great without the wooden side cheeks BTW, very retro-vintage. I also decided to not use the cheeks. :)
I’m so glad it was helpful. Appreciate the comment. I took the cheeks off one day to open the unit and thought, dang that’s looks good without them.
@@_justin_joe what does it look like without the wood - its it just open to the circuit boards?
Thanks! Keep the videos coming please!
More to come!
Incredible stuff thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Having spent alot of time using Korgs Electribe 2, the tempest made perfect scense to me instantly. The Electribe 2 works in the same way. I just WISH the oscillator was a modulatible control. So you could go to your snares and send a random lfo to select differnt snares every hit!
That would be really cool
Thanks for that info….very useful and definitely right, there is very little info on UA-cam about the ins and outs of this beast!
Are you able to access hard drive storage say on a computer or portable through usb?
Unfortunately you cannot address it like a hard drive via USB
Only way to manage presets, kits etc is with SysEx messages via USB with a SysEx manager software
I bought the pack but there is no sysex file for kicks, only the whole project on the tonsofdrums :(
I can send you a separate sysex. Email me justinjoejones@protonmail.com
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Thanks so much!
It's a bit funny, because that's really pretty much the opposite what most people say. The samples are considered the weakest part of the Tempest when it comes to sound quality. When you compare them to proper Samples they are below average at best. They are of course still useful when you use only very short parts as transient when you are designing sounds with the analogue oscillators, but most people avoid playing the plain samples of the Tempest because of the inferior Quality.
It's really a shame how much better the still amazing Tempest could have been, if it would contain really high quality samples and proper samples of the VS-waves, which often do not loop properly like on the Prophet VS.
Interesting, I wonder if that’s really more dependent on what kind of genre you are producing. For Jackin House and Hip Hop they are pretty ace imo
Could you say more about the VS wave issues? This is the 1st I have heard of that
@@_justin_joe Some of them don't loop properly. Either the loop-point isn't quite right or the sound compression of the internal chip doesn't play them right, so they don't sound like they should compared to the VS.
@@_justin_joe For sure the samples are usable, but they don't sound as good as you would expect for a top-range product like the Tempest. The Tempest was overall judged by the sound of the presets which mostly used these samples for sounding sub standard and many disregarded it as bad sounding, without realizing that it's strengths are the synth-engine when you use the analogue part or in combination with the digital oscillators. Only then you really get the sounds which are up to classic analogdrumsynths like 808 with a by far more wide range of possible sounds, plus it can be played as a very capable 6-voice 4 oscillator analog-digital hybrid poly-synthesizer.
I honestly don't get the point of this exercise 🤔 switching the sample that's loaded in a DCO is super easy. You're wasting the machine's memory by saving init patches where only one oscillator is active.
They write it definitely takes up a crap ton of memory, but for me I wanted to quickly access all those drums without having to go and switch the DCO every time I wanted all those drums to be available but my fingertips, so that was the point of the exercise
Yes actually I figured it out today.
Excellent glad to hear
If only you could sample and chop, this would be the end all.
That would be so dope!!
Hefty price tag for a rompler.
🤣 If thats all it was.....
12 analog oscillators say orherwise.
@@adamwhite1934 100% Sir!