Dave Smith Instruments TEMPEST - Manual (Page 29)

19 Tempest Operation Manual The Screens Keys
IMPORTANT: With Rt R
eC
set to o
n
, when you start recording your live
beat arrangement, any existing steps in the play list will be overwritten! If
you’re not creating a play list by recording your live beat arrangement, it’s
better to keep this set to o
ff
in order to avoid accidentally erasing your play
list steps by unintentionally entering Record mode.
5. Press the beat pad that you want your play list to start with.
6. Press the R
eCoRd
button to turn Record mode on.
7. Press P
lay
to start recording your live beat arrangement into the play list.
The selected beat will automatically be entered into step 1 of the play list.
8. When you want to hear a different beat, press a new beat pad. Notice that
the previous step’s B
aRS
duration is now set to the number of bars that the
previous beat played, and the next step’s B
eat
field has been filled with the
new beat you just selected.
Note: The new beat will start playing at the next Beat Quantize boundary.
When recording live beat arrangements into play lists, if Beat Quantize is set
to anything shorter than Bar, it is internally forced to Bar. This is because
the play lists can change between beats only at bar boundaries.
Repeat step 8 for each additional beat change that you want your play list to
contain.
During the last bar of your beat arrangement, do one of the following:
• Press S
toP
, then press R
eCoRd
to turn Record mode off. Press P
lay
and your
newly created play list will start playing from the beginning.
• Press R
eCoRd
to turn Record mode off. At the next Bar boundary, your
newly recorded play list will loop back to step 1.