Tempest

The Tempest from Dave Smith Instruments is a collaboration between Dave Smith and Roger Linn. Dave Smith is the mastermind behind the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, MIDI, and the current DSI and Sequential range. Roger Linn is the brain behind the Akai MPC and the LinnDrum. This collaboration draws on the strengths of each to create a hybrid 6 voice syntheiser that has been optimised for rhythmic programming. The Tempest can be seen as a drum machine, drum synthesiser, polyphonic synth, and an analog groove-box-all in one desktop unit.