Dave Smith Instruments TEMPEST User Manual

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Tempest Operation Manual

Real Time FX

To view or edit the Beat FX assignments, press S

hift

+ either P

layBaCk

key:

Beat FX slider movements are for live performance only and cannot be recorded.

However, Note FX (described in the following section) does permit recording

of slider movements, and Note FX sliders may be assigned to Beat-wide sound

parameters.

Note FX

If Pad Function is not set to 16 B

eatS

, Note FX mode is active, in which slider

movements affect the sound of a single sound pad, altering one of its sound

parameters. Unlike Beat FX, these movements can be recorded into the Beat.
Try it out. Select the 16 S

oundS

key, then press a sound pad repeatedly while

moving your finger on one of the sliders. Notice that the sound changes as you

move the slider. (If nothing happens, try another sound pad because the one you

selected may have no Note FX assignment.) Now hold S

hift

and press the left

atCh

key, then move your finger on the left slider 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 Beat, the value of the slider at the moment the pad is played will be

recorded into the new note, and these parameter changes will be heard when the

Beat plays back.

Beat: 14/Uptempo beat

Proj: Saturday night gig
Beat FX1: Slider1 Pos +/-

BW All Osc Freq

Beat FX2: Slider2 Pos +/-

BW Lowpass Freq

Beat FX3: Slider3 Pos +/-

BW All Env Dec

Beat FX4: Slider4 Pos +/-

BW Highpass Freq

Edit Beat FX1

Source

Amount

Destination

120.0

1. 1. 1

Beat FX

Soft Knob 1: Select Row

Select one of 8 Beat FX modulation

paths for editing.

Soft Knob 2: Source

This selects the mod source.

The options are:

“Position +/-” (bipolar with 0 at center,

“Position+” (bipolar with 0 at bottom,

and “Pressure” each for FX Sliders 1-4.

Soft Knob 4: Destination

Options are all Beat-wide sound

parameters: All Osc Freq,

Feedback, Lowpass Cutoff,

Resonance, Audio Mod, Highpass

Cutoff, All Env Attack, All Env

Decay and Beat Roll On/Off

Soft Knob 3: Amount

This control varies the amount of

modulation from -127 to 127.