Are your touch sliders somehow … temperamental ? My slider 1 seems to be a bit buggy, have to really push it hard for it to not go back to initial value especially when pushing it down. It’s okay, can live with that, but wanted to know if some of you observe the same.
As I do remember correct the touch slider are touch sensitive, so you can slide and press. So maybe you mod source is pressure not slide.
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lol, after that matt johnson vid dropped suddenly every unit on reverb is $2k+. I was actually looking at getting one in the first half of this year, but they were literally $1400 a week ago.
Might have to PM some of the sellers, show them actual sold listings, and ask them to be realistic. After next paycheck though.
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For what it’s worth, I don’t think that’s an outlandish price for a Tempest at all.
Hell, it cost more than that new, 15 years ago.
And given how few Tempests are actually out there in the world, they are destined to command far greater prices yet – long after the idealists have forgotten about what they hoped it would be.
To which end, it only makes sense to see used prices increase as savvy folks, like Matt, tap into the Tempest’s incredible potential.
The bottom line is, the Tempest is a very important and grossly-underappreciated piece of music history at present, and I wouldn’t sell you mine for anywhere near a lousy $1400.xx. 
Cheers!
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I’ll also add the pads blow everything out of the water in my stu as well, nicer than the MPC X too
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Totally fair. And I agree, $1400 was a little less than I was expecting when I first looked at prices last month after not seeing them a while. I don’t mean to try and bash this amazing instrument (I’ve never loved calling it a drum machine).
BUT, unless I missed something else in tempest news this week, it looks to me like everyone just added nearly double the price to their for-sale tempests because of a single youtube video and a preset pack becoming available for it. I think that’s a bit extreme of a “market correction” to borrow a term from my day job.
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I understand what you’re saying, but I personally don’t see it that way.
In my experience, fine instruments don’t ever really depreciate; they simply endure a slump, typically about 5–10 years post release, because people have grown complacent.
After which, they invariably return to their original value, plus inflation, and then slowly begin to appreciate as it becomes increasingly rare to find one in good condition.
Historically speaking, that initial bounce-back tends to happen quickly, and usually because someone has done something to draw people’s attention and renew interest. Often it only takes an instrument being designated as a “classic” to cause said “market correction”.
So, it’s not that a Tempest was actually worth less yesterday per se, but rather that it had merely been relegated to the back of people’s minds until recently.
Word to the wise, the same thing will happen with the gear you presently own (as I look at my Casio SK-1 and laugh). Now, whether or not that means it’s worth holding onto a given instrument for decades is for you to decide.
Me, I’m not all that sentimental when it comes to most electronics, but my now-vintage guitars and other historically-significant pieces like the Tempest, those will forever be sound investments (pun intended, I suppose).
Of course, it helps that I still use them everyday, and they earn their keep.
Cheers!
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Exact same thing happened with the Elektron monomachine. It was trolled for years and now everyone wants one.
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What reverb on dis?