BBMO BUG: I Hit a Wall of Confusion

BeatBuddy Software BBMO Help & Questions
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I must be doing something wrong!

I’ve been playing seriously for a year now. The BeatBuddy has made it really great, not sure if I would have made a year and counting if not for BB. My songbook that I practice is 60+ songs now.

I don’t have a lot of musical knowledge, never mind drums.

My usual method for adding a song to BeatBuddy:

  • I have a folder/playlist “Jimmy 01” with all my songs.
  • When I want to add a song, I find something close/passable in my existing folder, duplicate it, rename it, drag it to it’s alphabetical spot, customize it, mainly tempo. Maybe replace a few fills that don’t sound right. I sometimes shop around in Blues, Rock, and Ballads, duplicate, drag to Jimmy 01.

I came across my first Reggae song for my songbook, so I headed to the Reggae folder. Reggae 1 sounded fine, I did the duplicate etc stuff, dragged it to Jimmy 01. Fiddled with it in BBMO, saved to card.

When I brought it to the BB, the trouble soon began.

A lot of elements were simply silent. Intro, Part1 Fill2, Part2, Fill 2 and 3, Outro. Missing in Action.

Then I tried exporting Reggae 01, then importing, renaming etc.

Import, same issues. Arrgh.

The original Reggae 01 plays just fine, all elements.

Where am I going astray?

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Sounds like a bug with the BBMO :thinking: I think there have been reports of similar issues earlier :relieved:

Some of them may have been fixed but sounds like the root cause is still there :face_with_peeking_eye:

Note: If BBMO doesn’t play any sound then you might be doing something wrong but if it’s just BB that doesn’t then it’s BBMO bug :thinking:

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A comment about your process: although you can drag a (duplicate of your) beat from one folder to another, it might be best to use the Move function to your Jimmy 01 folder.

With that out of the way, I’ve tested the process using both Vivaldi and Google Chrome and can confirm that the duplicated and moved beat will not play the Intro or other fills properly on the pedal.

I also tested your process in the BeatBuddy Manager (BBM). The duplicated Reggae 1 beat plays all of the loops and fills on the pedal.

So this seems to be pointing at the BBMO as the culprit (as others have pointed out with some of the Rock beats).

Thanks for providing details. I’m recategorizing this thread as a bug and will let the developers sort it out.