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Granular sampling instruement
Tempera is an electronic musical instrument, a hardware granular synthesizer which allows for a full hands-on approach to sound design and live performance. Blend tones like paint on canvas with pristine audio processing in a compact, sturdy build.
Invoke the sound under your fingers
Eight audio samples are arranged in columns, one next to the other. Placing and moving grain emitters on the grid, thousands of playheads can travel across the surface to build up delicate grain clouds, chopped breakbeats, dramatic orchestra scores and lush soundscapes – even all at the same time.
Tempera's powerful granular engine can produce movements, loops, chaotic scatters, and organized rhythms, all with precise scrubbing or broad sprays.
Connected from edge to edge
Tempera is packed with connectivity. Loud and clear audio is delivered by a compact arrangement of two TS jacks as left+right, and a stereo headphones jack. You can sample incoming audio in mono or stereo, accommodating line-in signals, instrument signal, microphones, and pickups.
Integrate and sync clocks with other gear using MIDI TRS, compatible with both Type A and Type B wiring, or with your DAW through USB. Transfer audio files and canvases to and from your computer as a mass storage device. Connect USB MIDI controllers and keyboards directly into Tempera, or a USB flash drive for extra storage, or both with a USB hub.
Spec'd to the brim
- Global stereo pool of 4096 grains can be spread across 16 voices of polyphony, or all channeled into a single voice
- Per-voice ADSR amplitude envelope
- Per-voice multi-mode filter, including 12 dB/oct resonant low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, 24 dB/oct resonant low-pass ladder, rake and a formant filter
- Ten per-voice modulators, including attack-decay and attack-release envelopes, smooth and S&H noise functions, multiple LFO shapes, aftertouch and mod wheel, with many modulator destinations, allowing multiple sources to be routed to a single destination
- Per-emitter 6 dB/oct tone-shaping with variable-width band-pass filter
- Up to 64 placed emitters per voice, each configured to trigger sporadically or as an avalanche of grains
- Four concurrent emitter configurations, played all at once or on different MIDI channels for multi-timbrality
- Integrated FX chain with high-fidelity Chorus, Delay and Reverb, all processing at once
- 8GB internal storage fits more than 200 canvases (8 samples each), extendable by a plugged in micro SD card
- Built-in onboard microphone to sample audio without external equipment
- Record and resample Tempera's audio output internally
- Live grains processing for real-time granularization of the audio input
- Onboard overlay keyboard with multiple layouts for standalone operation
- Audio processing at 48 kHz 32-bit, and 32-bit DAC output. Each of the 8 loaded stereo samples can be up to 11 seconds long
- Dimensions 20.0×14.6×3.4 cm (5.4 cm including knobs)
