New OS fot the DSI Tempest analog drum machine
In this tutorial, we walk you through updating the Tempest OS via Mac or PC.
Dave Smith Instruments Releases New OS and Soundset for Tempest Analog Drum Machine Gets Enhanced Feature Set and New Sounds, Beats, Projects
Dave Smith Instruments has released a new operating system for their acclaimed Tempest analog drum machine that adds a number of highly requested features — as well as entirely new internal sounds, beats, and projects. The new version, OS 1.4, ships with newly purchased instruments and is also available for download from the company’s website for users wishing to upgrade instruments with older versions of the OS.
Notable among the new features are:
• Increased sequence length (up to 128 sixteenth notes, or 8 measures of 4/4) • Arpeggiation
• New modal scales
• Free-running LFOs
• Compressor envelope controls
• Quantize disable
• A total of 928 new factory sounds, 64 new beats, and 16 new projects
Co-developed by Dave Smith and noted instrument designer Roger Linn, Tempest has been embraced by musicians from a wide range of genres for both live performance and studio recording. “The new OS adds several powerful new features to an already powerful instrument,” said Smith. “And we’ve enlisted the talents of some heavy-hitting sound and beat designers to come up with a extensive amount of new content that’s not only fresh and inspiring, but also versatile.” The new content takes advantage of the new OS features and was over a year in the making.
As Smith puts it, “Our users have put Tempest to a lot of really creative and expressive uses and this upgrade is going to allow them to take it even further. We can’t wait to hear what they do with it.”
The Tempest has a MAP of $1999.
Price and specifications subject to change.
Verbos Composition System patch “Videotex”
A rhythmic patch using the Verbos Composition System (no additional modules). Reverb and delay supplied by a Roland RE-20.
Interview: 25 years of Atom™
On the official Bandcamp blog you will find a fresh interview with Uwe Schmidt, the man with many alias in electronica.
As we move into 2015, Uwe Schmidt celebrates his 25th anniversary of putting out records. In that time, the German electronic musician has released music under a staggering number of aliases and in a jaw-dropping array of styles. He’s best known for the arch electronica of his Atom™ and Atom Heart projects, and even non-electronic listeners may well be acquainted with his Señor Coconut project, which reimagined Kraftwerk’s catalog as electrified salsa and cha-cha standards. (Schmidt, 46, was born in Frankfurt, but has lived in Santiago, Chile since 1997.) Those names barely scratch the surface; consider also Brown, Superficial Depth, 21 Brothers, i, Erik Satin, Replicant Rumba Rockers, and Weird Shit—in all, more than 60 aliases span everything from neck-snapping EBM (Lassigue Bendthaus’ Matter) to starry-eyed ambient and ambient trance (Atom Heart’s Orange [Monochrome Stills] and B2/Atom Heart Live) to bit-crushed Latin experiments (Los Sampler’s Descargas) to the mind-bending rhythmic and timbral fluctuations of Atom™’s 2009 album Muster.
O Superman – Laurie Anderson – as displayed in the MOMA, New York
“O Superman (For Massenet)” is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Part of the larger work United States, “O Superman,” a half-sung, half-spoken, almost minimalist piece unexpectedly rose to #2 on the UK Singles Charts in 1981[2]. Prior to the success of this song, Anderson was little known outside the art world.”
LEGOWELT Studiostuff Crumar DS-2 Synthesizer
“This is not a synthesizer for boring italo basslines, funky leadlines and commonplace pop music melodies. This thing is instant cosmic space travel… Its big, unstable, adventerous, bleepy, moist, crackling, cloudy, hoarse, droney”
Vangelis – A Rare Recording & Performing on Synthesizer 80’s
áudio & vídeo Remaster by AVP
NAMM leaks: New micro-key type synth from Roland labelled JD-Xi
The Mini-Key Synth labelled JD Xi
Looks a bit like a Microkorg competitor
We’ll know better on 22.th this month (at NAMM)..
Hawkmoth “Technetium”
An exploration of one channel of the Perfourmer ringmoding another using a Ring Thing pedal, both running an offset sequence. Acoustic guitar looped as well.
Matthew Dear – “Her Fantasy”
Director Tommy O’Haver’s video for “Her Fantasy” takes us on a journey through bizarre sequences of debauchery and seduction with a hint of humor, as he pays homage to Avant Garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger in a self-described “mash-up.”
New album, “Beams” available on August 27th (UK/Europe) and August 28th (US).
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