"As both an a4 and tempest owner, I can say that the A4 is more suited for analog drum sounds than the tempest is.
A4 has:
- much faster and more stable envelopes without unwanted clicking
- Also got a wave reset function
- Dedicated knobs for noise and noise fade (like an AD envelope)
- Much more stable oscs
- No dynamic voice pooling so no need to assign to a voice
- All knobs send/receive midi CC/NRPN
- All tracks have a dedicated midi channel for external sequencing
- Superb sequencer with p_locks (you know the drill
- FX
Of course you will miss the pads, digital oscs and I really like the beats/sounds/projects system on the tempest. If you think of the tempest as a desktop polysynth with some nice live performance options, it gets much better imho.
If you want a dedicated drum machine, there is always the MD UW though
Rumours are elektron will make their next device an analog drum machine, but that might take some time to arrive if ever."
Van het Elektron-users-forum, en ik kan me er wel in vinden. Maar ben inderdaad geen DSI-liefhebber.