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By scoobylol Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:34 pm
It's interesting b.read my initial reaction was the same... damn the price. But as time has gone on I've realised how useful a piece the Tempest is. It has the analogue voices so there's nothing stopping you using it as a synthesizer of sorts. Whereas I think you'd struggle getting the same functionality from the Brute or the Taur, not to say that they aren't fantastic products in their own right... particularly at those prices. The Taur, slightly less so, but you get my point.

Coz the Monotribe is a beast man. Can get a little noisy if you really try and slam it through a hardware mixer for distortion, but that's part of the beauty in a sense. It's so limited with the step sequencer that it's actually great fun. Only killer for me was lack of a plug... my batteries ran out so quickly because I was playing with it for hours and hours.

EDIT: Regarding Tempest only thing I'd like is an audio in/thru to make use of the compressor in the realest of timezzz for external sources.



Where've you been dude Flat Eric was the don for about three weeks haha.
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By b.read Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:40 pm
scoobylol wrote:It's interesting b.read my initial reaction was the same... damn the price. But as time has gone on I've realised how useful a piece the Tempest is. It has the analogue voices so there's nothing stopping you using it as a synthesizer of sorts. Whereas I think you'd struggle getting the same functionality from the Brute or the Taur, not to say that they aren't fantastic products in their own right... particularly at those prices. The Taur, slightly less so, but you get my point.




True...the taur and brute/tempest is kinda apples to oranges though. I guess we're just talking about them 'cause they're pieces of gear that we also want? :lol: Gearlust is a mutha... :(
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By Coz Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:47 pm
The beauty of the Tempest is that it will play fine as a mono synth OR 6 part poly, albeit with a bit more menu diving. The Taur and the Brute will be great because of the simplicity, but without patch storage I could see me getting pissed off eventually!


scoobylol wrote:Only killer for me was lack of a plug... my batteries ran out so quickly because I was playing with it for hours and hours.



There's still some juice in the batteries it came with, so Cosmic couldn't have been that impressed with it! So far I like it a lot though. 8)

And yeah, I've seen that video. I didn't realise you meant that one.
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By b.read Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:49 pm
Also true... :lol:


It's always fun twisting knobs and finding new ways to make fart noises though. :D
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By Coz Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:54 pm
I'm glad real analogue has become affordable again (minus the Tempest!).

When I first started buying gear I remember going into the local pro audio shop and there being all these analogue's lying in a dark corner... they couldn't even give them away back then!

If only I knew then what I know now...
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By b.read Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:54 pm
I heard he was abducted by Akai's contract ninjas for leakin' those pics awhile back... :(
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By Coz Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:58 pm
He was camped out on here for a while after the new models were released, but that was mainly to hack the Akai servers and then continually slate the products! :lol:

He's supposed to be entering the Genre-rator project but who knows?

He did have a Tempest on order though, so maybe he's getting busy on that. :D
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By b.read Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:59 pm
Ohhhhhh yeahhhh he did sign up for the genre-tater-ratorrrrr rarrr comp didn't he... 8)
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By b.read Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:06 pm
Whaaaaaaaat! Pure poppycock and nonsense. :?


:lol: