Editor for Mandala V3 · iPhone & iPad · Free · Coming soon

Set up your Mandala pads from your iPhone.

Editor for Mandala V3 is a free editor for Synesthesia Mandala V3 drum pads. Plug a pad into your iPhone or iPad, tap a zone or a rim on the drawing, and change what it sends. Then send the settings to the pad and the app reads them back to check they took.

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An independent, unofficial app. Not made, endorsed, or supported by Synesthesia Corp. Mandala is a trademark of Synesthesia Corp.

How it works

Plug in. Tap. Send.

No laptop and no browser utility. The pad is drawn on screen the way Mandala players already know it, with zones z1 to z4 from the centre out and rims r1 to r9 around the edge.

1. Plug in

Connect a Mandala V3 pad to your iPhone or iPad over USB. The app finds it by name and shows it as a pad card. Several pads can be connected at once.

2. Tap and edit

Tap a zone or a rim and its note and channel appear below the drawing. Change them with a tap, or switch on Apply edits to all pads to change every pad together.

3. Send and verify

Send writes the settings to the pad, then reads them back. If anything didn’t take, the app shows which settings differ so you can send again or load the pad’s own settings.

Features

Everything the pad can be told, in your pocket.

Built for setting up at the gig, in the rehearsal room, or on the couch with no pad plugged in at all.

Zones and rims

Every one of the four zones and nine rims gets its own note and MIDI channel. Rims can also send a pressure controller on a channel of their own.

Strike position, slide and pressure

Map the three surface controllers to a control change, aftertouch, or pitch bend up or down, each on its own channel. Strike position reads 0 at the centre and 127 at the edge.

Sensitivity and damping

Set how light a tap triggers the surface and the rim, and how hard a hit it takes to reach velocity 127. These four settings aren’t in the official preset files, so the app keeps them for you.

Official preset files

Import and export the same XML preset files the official Mandala V3 utility uses. Move setups between a computer and your phone through the Files app.

Many pads, even unplugged

Each pad is a card you can switch between. Add a pad with nothing plugged in, build its whole setup offline, and send it the next time it’s connected.

Selection follows MIDI

Turn it on and whatever you hit gets selected: strike a zone or a rim and the editor jumps straight to it, switching pads if it needs to.

Guided tutorial

A ten-step walkthrough shows each part of the editor with an animated hand on a practice screen. Replay it from Settings any time. Light and dark appearance included.