Dave Smith Instruments TEMPEST - Manual (Page 15)

5 Tempest Operation Manual The Pad Function Keys
16 Sounds
If 16 Sounds is pressed, the sixteen pads are
used to play the sixteen Sounds (in either
Bank A or B) of the selected Beat. This is
useful for playing sounds, or for recording
sounds into beats in real time.
If the P
adS
key (in the Screens section) is
lit, the following screen will be displayed,
showing what’s in each pad and other useful
controls:
One sound pad is always selected, indicated by being dimly lit. Press a pad to
select it, or Hold Shif
t
+pad to select it without hearing its sound. The sound
controls in the upper half of the panel (oscillators, filters, mixer, etc.) always
apply to the selected sound.
Note the arrangement of sound types in the above screen, which is optimized for
playing the drum kit sounds 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
SftSnr
Snare
Kick
HhOpn
HhTite
TomHi
Crash
TomMid
Ride
TomLo
Splash
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 for the ‘Beat
Events’ screen and the
‘16 Time Steps’ pad
function.
Selected Beat & Sound
Displays the pad number
and name of the currently
selected Beat and Sound.
Soft Knob 2:
Swing
Varies the selected
Beat’s 1/16 note
Swing amount from
50% (straight 1/16s)
to 66% (triplet
swing) to 75%
(extreme swing).
54-58% gives a
relaxed 1/16 feel.
Soft Knob 3:
Sound Type
The center area
shows the
Sound Types
(Kick, Snare, etc.) for
the 16 Sounds in the
selected bank.
This knob permits
changing the
assigned sound type.