Actually, God knows why, pitch detection was improved but I generally need to set the sample at 220Hz to be played like the original. I guess it comes from other settings but man, such a headache to just have a sample playing normally…
I never used a sampler which doesn’t have even a minimal time stretching… and I would not
I’m quite pissed off each time I am trying to use the Tempera tbh. I just spent the whole day trying to work around the fact that notes are not saved within a canva… f*cking nightmare.
It’s definitely a machine by and for engineers not for musicians, like the workflow asks for so many parameters affecting each other, so much prep… Of course I totally forgot the music I wanted to make since that morning when I decided to find a solution against what seems like a simple problem that could be solved in a FW update.
Just the simple fact I cannot play the same note on two emitters with the keyboard overlay is… fascinating.
They’re a special breed of musicians, maths oriented. Let’s not start a full debate but let’s say the way to control the device needs an analytic mind (probably also due to the granular nature of the device) but the FM complications have been tamed in the DN brilliantly for instance so the FM is accessible for everyone.
That’s the whole point, I am using 4 channels.
If only there was a different overlay/keyboard for each channel and if notes could be saved, that would simplify greatly my experience.
I had to spend whole afternoon to have Ableton configured to play notes on the Tempera and I just succeeded. It’s way more complicated than touching a cell though and of course the notes played don’t appear on the Tempera keyboard overlay.
I was always taught music theory is math… frequencies double at each octave, intervals are ratios (a perfect fifth is 3:2), rhythm is fractions, and twelve-tone equal temperament is literally the twelfth root of 2. So the underlying structure is deeply mathematical.
In canvas title.
But it can get complex if you use different notes on different channels for sure…
I read you were using Ableton, can’t you keep notes there ? Or with an Elektron sequencer ?
I agree that remembering held notes with canvas could be useful. No sure if it will happen. Go to Superbooth to convince Andre !
YMMV, I would love a standard 4 ops machines on DN2. The fact that ops B1 and B2 levels are linked makes it nightmarish if you want to reproduce an existing 4 ops patch…
The underlying yes, yet you don’t need a mathematics cursus to play music in general.
Also although you can tell Ableton to send notes, either you create 4 MIDI tracks just to hold one note on each and send clock(and pack even more your screen) the point or you have to create a rack with chains then entering each note that has to be filtered per chain…
Still I would prefer to enter notes with the underused touchscreen of the Tempera and have the notes within the canva in case I wanna use it with another device than Ableton.
Using a 16 steps lfo to modulate 8 slices (REL Y) another lfo to modulate step lfo’s speed, in order to create rhythmical variations. Even steps have value 1.000 (max REL Y) in order to be silent. Kinda probability…
OS 2.3 RC1 available
Cool new features, can’t wait to test.
New function Grain skip probability works the same was as Grain reverse probability and these two share a UI slot
New function Internal SD Card / Flashdrive formatter which will format the medium with a compatible ExFAT and MBR partition. This is usually not necessary but might help.
New per-emitter function Grain pitch. It goes smoothly from -12 to +12semitones and integrates the Octave switching. Grain pitch is also a modulation target. Behind the scenes it hitches a ride on pitchbend which was already per-voice
New function to Nudge cell markers in <:Tracks:> → Edit → Trim . Select the marker and then turn the 2nd encoder to adjust. This allows to have uneven cell lengths if your audio material requires it
Tempera has been the most updated and further developed synth I’ve bought since I started my hardware journey, I don’t use it on a daily basis but it’s a fascinating little thing
