Boss ME-50B kick drum feature

[theLimeyBrit]

I heard that the ME-50B has a feature where you can touch a pedal and it will play a kick drum sound. I'm in a situation where this could be a useful feature. I haven't had any luck turning up any examples of it on YouTube - can someone tell me how well it really works? Could you use it live if you're playing without a drummer or is it really only meant for practice? Are there other alternative pedals or multi effects that do the same thing?

Thanks in advance

-tLB

[Righteous Thunderer]

Basically you turn a knob next to the big pedal on the right and set it for "kick drum". Once you do that, every time you put tap the front of it down it makes a kick drum sound through your amp. If I remember properly (I basically never use this feature) the volume changes dependent on how hard you push the pedal down. Also, you don't set it to a BPM, you have to physically control the rhythm of the kick drum and everything. I prefer to use the drum settings built into my Zoom pedal (can't remember the model).

[natw42]

I used to have that pedal. The kick drum feature is pretty useless IME. You tap it 2x and it kind of follows a rhythm. To me, it always sounded like it didn't actually stay in time though. I used to try and use it with the looper and never got good results.

[darius8]

Zoom's B2 and B3, and Digitech's BP355 and BP90 has built-in drum patterns.

[theLimeyBrit]

Thanks for the responses. Seems like its probably not worth the effort and expense to find and purchase one just for this feature, but if one happens to pop up on CL I'll check it out.

[natw42]

It's a neat multi, but if you were looking to buy it just for this feature look elsewhere. I sold mine and got individual pedals because for my needs I just ended up using a few sounds (octave, dist, envelope) and didn't need the whole schmorgasboard .