Joosep, I appreciate your review of the Tempest, you touched a lot of bases. I have recently given some thought to purchasing a Tempest. May I ask which sequencers you have tried and which one you believe matched up well with the instrument. Thanks.
I have touched some different sequencers, but have brought home only one. Using an external sequencer to control Tempest you lose quite a lot. Tempest does not "Roll" incoming notes. Reverse and FX sliders can only be recorded into the internal sequencer, so you lose those. So now what you gain from using an external sequencer is really which you choose. How your workflow is. I cant really fathom to think I can dictate to you which sequencer is the best. I strongly recommend you just do your research on the Cirklon, Carbon, Deluge and Pyramid (some top of the line ones as of right now, maybe forgetting something).
Now the Pyramid is all about arrangements, creating long intricate developing projects. One track can be a maximum of
384 bars! At the same time you can have a maximum on
64 tracks running! Every track can have its own track length and signature! This means crazy polyrhythms and polymeters. Every track can have 32 patterns. So thats a total of 32x64 = 2048 patterns (in beta right now) , with the maximum of 2048x384 = 786432 bars.
Crazy midi effects like scale, delay, arpeggiator, note to cc, harmonizer, randomizer, equalizer, humanizer, chance can all be applied to any track (max 4 per track) without destroying the original midi data.
Pyramid also lets you record and create CC automations. In the Tempest world this means you can control all of the beatwide effects via any of the Pyramids knobs and/or touchpad and record these movements into the sequencer. And even create LFOs to control any of the Tempests beatwide effects.
Thats how I use it with my Tempest. Be sure to check out different sequencers, as workflows on everyone is different. You have to pick one that fits you the best. Hope this helps
