MY BEAT BUDDY IS HERE!

[ArtechnikA]

OK - nevermind...
Donno what I was doing wrong. Plugged into the (R) output maybe? I think this must have been it.
Since the headphone output was fine, I decided to test for bad cable and used 'known good' cable.
After blowing out an eardrum verifying that worked, I went back to the previous cable and it worked just fine too.
It even plays just fine in the 'Active' jack (I used 'Passive' for the bass) so it appears I can run them both together in a practice setting , which was the original plan...
Sounds great, happy camper, back to learning stuff...

 

[SingularSound]

So, I want to play Santana. Choose Latin, mambo. Sounds great, but a little too Ricky Ricrdo, so I switch the kit to Rock or Standard. No output. No loading drum kit bar either.

What am I doing wrong?

BCJ

The Latin beats in particular were programmed to work just on the Latin drum set. Because they use very different types of instruments than the standard drum set, but also use a standard drum drum set at the same time. So we had to program the other instruments to use different MIDI ID's.

 

[theLimeyBrit]

I've got a video done, but it's taking its sweet time uploading. Watch this space!

 

[theLimeyBrit]

Here you go:

 

[Adamixoye]

What did you use to record? I tried to make a video (which I've never done before for this type of purpose), and instead of recording through proper channels I just tried to use my laptop mic. I obviously didn't position it correctly or something, as my speaking came through clearly and then the music just sounded like garbage.

 

[theLimeyBrit]

I clamped my iPhone to a desk and positioned it over my pedal board and recorded through that. I thought about recording the audio with Audacity, but that would have required a separate voiceover as well, and I decided that I couldn't be bothered with editing multiple audio/video tracks. I'm actually pretty impressed with the result, I've never done much with video before.

 

[GKon]

Here you go:

Good vid! ANd, like I said, can only be used while wearing socks.

 

[theLimeyBrit]

Good vid! ANd, like I said, can only be used while wearing socks.

I felt it was only appropriate to continue the established tradition

 

[GKon]

I felt it was only appropriate to continue the established tradition

Good work, sir, good work! My hat, and shoes, off to you!

 

[hrodbert696]

Here you go:

Great job! Question - I see the transition from part 1 to part 2 of any given song. Is there a way to go back to part 1, use part 2 for a chorus and then part 1 for a verse? Or once you're in part 2, do you have to stay there till an outro?

 

[Joe Nerve]

Great job! Question - I see the transition from part 1 to part 2 of any given song. Is there a way to go back to part 1, use part 2 for a chorus and then part 1 for a verse? Or once you're in part 2, do you have to stay there till an outro?

If you hold down the pedal again, it goes back to part 1.

 

[ArtechnikA]

Great job! Question - I see the transition from part 1 to part 2 of any given song. Is there a way to go back to part 1, use part 2 for a chorus and then part 1 for a verse? Or once you're in part 2, do you have to stay there till an outro?

Transition cycles through the parts. The 'built-ins' seem to have but 2 parts but I believe there is no practical limit. So you could cycle in ABACAB if you want ;-) Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus is just 1-2-1-2 and you Transition through the cycle.

 

[Feral Feline]

Great job on the video, LimeyBrit! Well balanced between talkin' features and showin' them.

The BB sounds are pretty durned good, from what I've heard in your vid. The fills are a touch ... not quite stilted, but more drum-machine-like than human-like since of course it's a machine... I guess even if the samples were created by recording a real drummer it's kinda like when I chopped 2" [edit: 1/4"] tape to re-arrange songs it always interrupted the natural flow no matter how skilled you were with the razorblade and matched up the splices.

ANyHooHa. As I said, I think it sounds very good and I'm hoping someone can video demo some weird time signature stuff – I'm curious how the display manages to visually cue stuff in 6/8 or 5/4 since the moving bar indicator looks like on 4/4 will fit on the screen... if any of that made sense.

It is the best dang drum machine I've ever heard. Hope when I get mine the pots & pans kit is ready to DL.

 

[theLimeyBrit]

The song at the end of the video is using a 6/8 beat - the width of the indicator bar is variable according to the number of beats in a measure.

Great job on the video, LimeyBrit! Well balanced between talkin' features and showin' them.

The BB sounds are pretty durned good, from what I've heard in your vid. The fills are a touch ... not quite stilted, but more drum-machine-like than human-like since of course it's a machine... I guess even if the samples were created by recording a real drummer it's kinda like when I chopped 2" tape to re-arrange songs it always interrupted the natural flow no matter how skilled you were with the razorblade and matched up the splices.

ANyHooHa. As I said, I think it sounds very good and I'm hoping someone can video demo some weird time signature stuff – I'm curious how the display manages to visually cue stuff in 6/8 or 5/4 since the moving bar indicator looks like on 4/4 will fit on the screen... if any of that made sense.

It is the best dang drum machine I've ever heard. Hope when I get mine the pots & pans kit is ready to DL.

 

[Adamixoye]

Transition cycles through the parts. The 'built-ins' seem to have but 2 parts but I believe there is no practical limit. So you could cycle in ABACAB if you want ;-) Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus is just 1-2-1-2 and you Transition through the cycle.

My understanding of what's been said is that when creating your own files, there will be two options:
(1) You create two parts and go back and forth between them as many times as you want, ABABABABAB... verse-chorus style.
(2) You create a fixed song with a fixed arrangement of parts, for example intro-ABABCABDE-outro and you go straight through the song; you can't choose to ad-lib and replay parts.

Great job on the video, LimeyBrit! Well balanced between talkin' features and showin' them.

The BB sounds are pretty durned good, from what I've heard in your vid. The fills are a touch ... not quite stilted, but more drum-machine-like than human-like since of course it's a machine... I guess even if the samples were created by recording a real drummer it's kinda like when I chopped 2" tape to re-arrange songs it always interrupted the natural flow no matter how skilled you were with the razorblade and matched up the splices.

ANyHooHa. As I said, I think it sounds very good and I'm hoping someone can video demo some weird time signature stuff – I'm curious how the display manages to visually cue stuff in 6/8 or 5/4 since the moving bar indicator looks like on 4/4 will fit on the screen... if any of that made sense.

It is the best dang drum machine I've ever heard. Hope when I get mine the pots & pans kit is ready to DL.

The fills are hit or miss and depend on your timing. They can sound stilted depending on when you choose it. They also can sound great. Either way I think it sounds pretty human. But in those "stilted" cases, it sounds like a drummer who started the timing of his fills wrong, and then recovers. IMO.

There are fewer odd time signatures than I had hoped. All of the rock and metal is in 4/4 as far as I can tell. There is a folder of odd time signatures and there are some odd time signatures scattered throughout the different styles---in particular, there are a handful of blues songs in 6/8. I haven't explored some of the other folders.

For the odd time signatures that do exist, the width of the indicator bar changes. It works just fine. As @theLimeyBrit just posted as I was typing.

 

[theLimeyBrit]

The fills are hit or miss and depend on your timing.

Yes. I lost count of how many takes it took until I got through the song at the end without flubbing either a fill or a transition. It was good practice though - I played that song at church yesterday - singing, playing bass, and controlling the BeatBuddy - and nailed it

 

[NickDG]

theLimeyBritM, Big thanks for the effort. That vid was great!

 

[Feral Feline]

Thanks LimeyBrit re 6/8!

PS: Thanks Adamixoye, as well, re 6/8.

 

[LeonD]

The fills are hit or miss and depend on your timing. They can sound stilted depending on when you choose it. They also can sound great. Either way I think it sounds pretty human. But in those "stilted" cases, it sounds like a drummer who started the timing of his fills wrong, and then recovers. IMO.

What I think one of the great things about the BB is that whenever you start a file or transition, the "drummer" always come back in on the one. It takes a lot of pressure off of the timing.

 

[Adamixoye]

What I think one of the great things about the BB is that whenever you start a file or transition, the "drummer" always come back in on the one. It takes a lot of pressure off of the timing.

Right. Even at its most awkward, you never lose the beat.