Having tested the latest beta, it's my opinion that if any more bugs are to be addressed, the following five should be considered a priority. As minimal as they may seem at a glance, these remaining issues are a liability when physically playing the Tempest in a live performance situation.
1· If you accidentally hit the 16 Beats or 16 Mutes button first, when trying to enter 16 tunings or 16 Levels mode, the Roll function automatically disengages – mode changes should happen upon the button’s release in order to prevent this.
2· In 16 Tunings mode, when the sequencer is stopped, both adding and releasing notes interrupts the Arp causing it to reset and fall out of sync.
3· In 16 Levels mode, when the sequencer is stopped, the Arp allows notes to be triggered outside of the selected quantize value, which creates undesirable flams when trying to depress multiple notes at once, or when adding new notes to the arpeggio. Also, both adding and releasing notes interrupts the Arp causing it to reset and fall out of sync.
4· When recording with the Arp in 16 Levels mode, the held pads blink in succession with each note trigger as expected; but after the first pass of the sequence is recorded, only pad 16 blinks. *In all other Arp modes, the pads continue to blink in the order they were depressed/recorded as expected.
24· When you set System > UI Preferences > Solo/Mute behavior to 'Seq only', if you mute a pad that contains a sequence and then attempt to play that same sound live in 16 Tunings mode, turning the Mixer Level knob causes the sound to cut-out.
28· While a sequence is playing, in '16 Time Steps' mode, on the 'Events' screen, disengaging the "Loop Screen" function causes the tempest flip-out for a second: i.e. all the pads light-up in rapid succession and the beat stutters. Sync, however, is maintained.
Though there are still some relatively obtrusive bugs related to the compressor envelope and the external sequencer, I think it's fair to say that those features were never part of the original design, and there's little consequence to simply not using them. The above five bugs, however, are real functional concerns and ought to be fixed.
Ask for it, folks! We're almost there...
Cheers!
*Edit: I also think that dotted 8th's should be added to the LFO sync parameter, given that it's the single most common syncopation in music, and its omission was not deliberate but rather an oversight.