Black Beauty not working properly...

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SteveJ
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Black Beauty not working properly...

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Wondering if anyone else has experienced any issues with the black beauty app... I remember it not working well when I purchased my first mk2.9 in Fall 2010. I just reinstalled it on a brand new Retina MBPRo and am having the same issues. I have 16gigs of RAM so I know that is not the issue.

I can get it to make sound, but the sensitivity is terrible. If I only needed to play 1/8 notes I'd be fine - but anything more and it drops notes. I've tried every combination of Vector/Sample size, Round Robbins, etc. It's not my Mac and I don't believe it is the pad as it tracks fine in VB and Battery.

Any Suggestions?

thanks

Steve
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Kestrell
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Post by Kestrell »

Hey Steve.

I also have a similar problem with the black beauty software. The latency is so high (not a hardware issue) that its dropping more notes than playing them.
It seems, while the sound library for the black beauty is extensive, the software itself still has issues. So many issues that they have taken down the original link to download it off their mainpage**.

I had emailed tech support about "the missing link" for the software d/l because a disc was not included with the mandala itself. Their response:

"While we are currently doing update work on the Black Beauty program it is still fully available to mk2.9 owners as a download from the following links:

Mac (963.81 MB):
(link removed by 'Kestrell')

and

PC (990.36 MB):
(link removed by 'Kestrell')


Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,

Mandala Tech Support
Techsupport@synesthesiacorp.com

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I know this doesn't answer your question in full Steve but its all the information I have as a Mandala user. Feel free to contact technical support through e-mail with your question. They were very quick to respond to my mine (less the 5 minute response time). It may be the more appropriate forum for technical questions regarding the mandala at this time.


* ("Sound engineers at Synesthesia have painstakingly digitally sampled more than 1500 strikes on a Black Beauty(TM) snare drum.: See Mandala FAQ: http://synesthesiacorp.com/faq-page#n30)

** (This software is included for free with any Mandala mk2.9 purchase! Thousands of position based samples of a single vintage snare. Only the Mandala surface can map such a high resolution matrix of samples! see: http://synesthesiacorp.com/sample-libra ... ack-beauty)
turnkee
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Post by turnkee »

I also asked tech support about the future of the BB and they said there is a new version in the works but in the meantime it is available as a download. They never had direct download links posted on their site because the software was on the included install DVD. I haven't had any latency or missed note issues with it on my mk2.9 [old MacBook 2.2GHz 2GB RAM CoreAudio no external interface] and it works just like the v2.0 guy's in this youtube video. Maybe it's something in your Driver window settings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxJ321n ... A&index=15

It can be downloaded from here:

Mac (963.81 MB):
http://synesthesiacorp.com/Beauty_v2.9_Mac.zip

PC (990.36 MB):
http://synesthesiacorp.com/Beauty_v2.9_PC.zip
jaguitadrubas
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Post by jaguitadrubas »

Hey guys,
I also had this problem. . . and I have a very fast machine (can get latency to 1.8ms in battery)

What I ended up doing. . . was recreating the setup from the black beauty application. . . in battery.

Took a long time. . . but when I was finished it was worth it, played really nicely.

I've lost the kit file now. . . :( so i'm going to have to remake it hahahahaha

good luck, and yeah I can't wait till they release the fixed version
launch54321
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