Mandala Drum Forums

What Mac are you running the Virtual Brain on? We don't have any issues here running either of the programs on an M2 Pro Mac Mini (Sequoia 15.5) or on an M1 Pro MacBook Pro (Monterey 12.5.1).

Please be sure you're running the newest versions of those legacy programs, available on the Support page ...

Are both your pads showing up in Device Manager under Sound, video, & game controllers (as Mandala_V3_####), and also in there under Universal Serial Bus controllers (labeled as USB Composite Devices)?

Also, which version of Windows are you running, and do you get the same results with Edge?

Programs like Live, Battery, Logic, etc. offer Round-robin sample playback. Ableton describes Round-robin sample playback the following way in the Live manual:
Round-robin is a method of sample playback which allows you to play different sampled versions of the same sound, resulting in natural ...

You can adjust the Intensity Fader for velocity-to-volume in the Modulation Router as shown on page 277 in the Kontakt 8 manual here:

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/manuals/kontakt/Kontakt_User_Guide_230924.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoq4LVyVeyZvncm_pv1bgdPYjZXC1B ...

¿Qué has seleccionado para "Driver" en File > Audio/Pad Driver Window... en el programa Virtual Brain? Tu selección determinará la salida del audio. Parece que el "Driver" que estás usando limita las opciones a la salida de los altavoces de tu ordenador.

The response and parameters are there in the V3 for triggering emulations of acoustic drums if you keep in mind the audio science of what you're setting out to do. One major thing to focus on is your sample set. Everyone's recipe will be unique based on the sample set they are triggering. Think ...

Attached is a Max patch which does what you're looking for. It blocks the controllers associated with any of your notes for 100ms when that note comes in, then the data starts flowing after that. Short hits or taps only produce notes.

If you use this as a Max patch to filter the data from your pad ...

I don't have experience making Max 4 Live patches but I could create a Max patch that theoretically does it and send it to you as a patch instead of a standalone so you could see what I've done and use it as the basis for a M4L patch.

Just to make sure I've got all the parameters, since you are ...

You could create a Max for Live patch to do that. Another option would be to do it before it even reaches Live by writing a Max patch and sending the Mandala data through that patch on its way to Live.

Do you have experience with Max? If not, let me know what CC numbers you're using for pressure ...

Thank you for that info. We would like to look deeper into this by being able to reproduce it in here in the lab.

Could you please let us know more info about the steps involved when switching between Mac and Windows? It will also help to know what browsers you are using for the V3 Utility on each ...