Unlocking the samples within the DSI Tempest (and some file management tips) 

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!

Neat vid. I've had mine for a few years and love it. She looks naked without the side panels. Thanks for the efforts!

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

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.

Great tutorial, a ‘making a beat from scratch on the tempest’ type video would be a amazing resource, not many around atm.

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 :-)

Incredible stuff thank you!

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. :)

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! Keep the videos coming please!

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!

I bought the pack but there is no sysex file for kicks, only the whole project on the tonsofdrums :(

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.

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. CG

Thanks for that info….very useful and definitely right, there is very little info on RU-vid about the ins and outs of this beast! Are you able to access hard drive storage say on a computer or portable through usb?

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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.

Yes actually I figured it out today.

Hefty price tag for a rompler.