John... I really don't like bickering in forums, for the sake of your future posts I'll just show you this .
"Ah, the proverbial "grapevine", what a waste of everyone's time it is."
Like it or not that's about as dismissive as it gets.
I get it we have all been here a while. We have all been through this (on the other board) ... but not everyone actually has been through this. It's new as some people are infact new owners. Tempest is still sold with vs waveforms as part of its sales decree ...
I'm not here to fight you. I know you are a good dude with a shit ton of great posts. But we can all get a little short some times.
Now as far as dsi is concerned... the first time I got my tempest I noticed it right away as that was one of the key reasons I bought it. I emailed them and was told "the vs waveforms in the tempest are of the actual vs waveforms and what you are hearing as "digital noisy sound" is likely due to the low resolution of the wavetables themselves"
This was a completely BS line and they didn't change their tone u till I sent them shots of the oscope proving they are not VS waveforms... mind you this is in 2015 quite a while after this should have been known. So either they tried to play me for a fool or they lacked in testing and communication. As someone who consults and tests for many companies I highly doubt this was unknown at that time and if it was... shame on that crew.
Regardless I'm not here to start shit. I simply felt the question was valid and didn't deserve the response it got. Not to me, and not to this poster.
It's similar to the response I get when I bring up the terrible midi implementation, or low resolution of filter control.... it gets tiring to see a company and comunity of the company I so respect, act in ways that just look.... tired and half assed. Yeah that's harsh. I wish I never had to say it. Pride in ones work is something that an American manufacturer should take very seriously . When people bring up issues, they should go above and beyond to fix. And we shouldn't see the same problem in the following product... I'm gonna stop cause I don't want this to go to personal. But just know. I take it that seriously because I care. I want dsi to succeed. I look up to them. I have tremendous respect for their entire crew.
First of all, that quote about the "grapevine" was not me being dismissive of the faulty waveforms, but rather me being critical of the misinformation that the OP had obtained elsewhere, citing a faulty chip inside the Tempest. I gave him the backstory, answered his questions, and merely
suggested that he not worry about it... For which, I might add, he thanked me.
Second of all, few people have been as critical of DSI as myself, or as proactive about getting the Tempest fixed for that matter, and I clearly stated in my other posts that I was
not making excuses for them, and that the issue should indeed have been caught at the source and fixed. But it wasn't, and so that's just the way it is, and
that was my point.
Lastly, my personal and
subjective opinion about whether or not this inherent anomaly with the VS waves actually proves a hindrance to sound design, or otherwise detracts from the Tempest's merits as a synth, is mine and mine alone. I simply don't find the waveforms to be a burden, broken though they may be. And that opinion, which is based on my own extensive use of the Tempest, was meant only to offer a little perspective to a concerned person who had already admitted that he hadn't noticed the noise himself. Ironically perhaps, I was attempting to make him feel better about his purchase. An optimism fueled by the fact that I was, at that time, operating under the assumption that DSI was still working hard to fix the remaining bugs in the operating system.
At any rate, I don't care anymore. It's off my plate. Say whatever you want about me, the Tempest, each other... I'm moving on. Good will to y'all, I mean that.
Cheers!
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