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Synesthesia Corporation announced on Wednesday they're launching a new version of their Mandala drum synthesizer, a drum pad that registers where and how hard you strike the drum's surface and returns a correspondingly softer or louder hit. This type of pressure-sensitive playback, which allows Synesthesia to bill their product as a "high-def" drum pad and synthesizer, sounds like it uses a process called multi-sampling, a term that should be familiar to anyone who's ever played around with Soundfonts. For the uninitiated: multi-sampling involves recording or creating samples of the same sound at different volumes, and stacking them using software so that certain samples trigger based on certain events (like striking a drum head harder or software). When done properly, multi-sampling can create surprisingly dynamic sounds. The new Mandala, which is coming to stores on November 1 for a cool $349, will plug into both Macs and PCs via USB and comes standard with a 4 GB library of samples of over 100 instruments, including 3,000 samples of the Black Beauty snare drum. About Everything USB
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