{"id":24467,"date":"2012-05-08T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/1313\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:11:35","slug":"mandalahardware-trigger-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24467","title":{"rendered":"Mandala\/Hardware trigger experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/synesthesiacorp.com\/\">Mandala<\/a> drum trigger is the most advanced on the market. The current lineup is a USB\/software based sample brain combination. As a standalone tool it&#8217;s great, but from day one I&#8217;ve wanted it to interact with the hardware world. Up-until recently it was a game of software\/midi routing hell. Dealing with the laptop\/software layer between the Mandala &amp; external synth\/samplers was a show stopper. Do to the popularity of the iPad &amp; in-turn the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/iconnectivity.com\/iConnectMIDI-Overview\">iConnetMIDI<\/a>, we are now able to bridge the gap between USB compliant midi controllers &amp; hardware instruments without the need of a computer host. This is my 1st trail experiment with this computer-less solution.<\/p>\n<p>Setup Description<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandala &#8211; configured in three zones\/midi notes<\/li>\n<li>iConnectMIDI<\/li>\n<li>MIDI triggered Octatrack bitcrushed sample goodness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4LFrUzHBWHM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mandala drum trigger is the most advanced on the market. The current lineup is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24467\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mandala\/Hardware trigger experiment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,180],"tags":[42,292,291,226,234],"class_list":["post-24467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-videos","tag-drum","tag-iconnectmidi","tag-mandala","tag-octatrack","tag-trigger","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mandala-hardware-trigger-experim.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24444,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24444","url_meta":{"origin":24467,"position":0},"title":"Daily Noize &#8211; Morning Sync","author":"Eric","date":"May 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Decided to make a little \"sample pack\" from a midi sync experiment. This is the by-product of testing an MPC 3000 being a master clock & sequencing a MRB-522 via a rat stompbox, a Prophet 08+ValhallaShimmer, & triggering a octatrack mangling a loop of me on the ole drum kit.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Noize&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Noize","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24503,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24503","url_meta":{"origin":24467,"position":1},"title":"Rhythmic mangling of pink noise Via the DPS-1 Octatrack.","author":"Eric","date":"October 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"What can be done with some noise, a box with knobs, & a phone.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hardware&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hardware","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rhythmic-mangling-of-pink-noise.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rhythmic-mangling-of-pink-noise.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rhythmic-mangling-of-pink-noise.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rhythmic-mangling-of-pink-noise.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/rhythmic-mangling-of-pink-noise.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24425,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24425","url_meta":{"origin":24467,"position":2},"title":"The Mandala testing begins.","author":"Eric","date":"August 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I hate that it uses USB but I think more Mandalas will be added to the wish list. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-yeK0t1_CRc","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hardware&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hardware","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-yeK0t1_CRc\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24442,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24442","url_meta":{"origin":24467,"position":3},"title":"MPC3000 vs Pro Tools","author":"Eric","date":"March 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided to run a quick comparison between programming a 2 bar drum loop via the Akai MPC 3000 & doing the same via Protools\/midi track & a software sampler. 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