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badrobot wrote:Here is a quick demonstration of how amazingly sensitive the pad is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQr23u5Vy70

Wow! Just Wow!

Thank you BadRobot,

While I'm a trap drummer of many years and currently only slightly comfortable with hand drumming, I have a feeling that the soreness would go away with frequent practice. Assuming I move ahead with my plan, I'll document my experiment in a new thread here.

BTW: I like playing ...

Bump.

I'd like to use one or two Mandalas like one would use a Handsonic pad but with better control over the sounds by creating my own samples and patches and with less of an electronic look on stage. Are they sensitive enough?

If this is a silly question, would someone please tell me so?

Are the Mandala pads practical to use for hand drumming or only for use with sticks?

Well... I guess no one does that. :(

I realize the edge would be an issue. A drummer would need to re-learn the hand/stick motion for a crash though one should be able to program the extreme outer zone to be a mute and stop a crash with thumb and forefinger like we do with an acoustic cymbal ...

Does anyone use a full Mandala trap kit including the use of the Mandala pads as cymbals?

>>There is definitely a delay in the sound processing though. I may mess around and see if I can get it more real-time.<<

Hyshka;

If you're still here and have been able to minimize the latency, could you let us know? It would be nice if the program could be used in real time with a lean Ubuntu ...