WOW
thanks man
those were really nice drum kit
gotta try it out later
Just to be sure
so it have no Electric snare so far?
Can you rephrase and expand the question?
My bad
I was trying to ask is the beat buddy allow to play the electric snare sound so far?
because sometimes when I deport the midi file from gp5
some drum part were missing like the electric snare
Although the BB is general midi compatible it is designed to be a drummer replacement or stand-in as such it does not have the full sound set of a general midi drum set. To cater for other requirements there are different kits eg Latin or percussion however only one kit can be used at a time. As I stated above you can add to the existing kits any wave file (as long as it is not over 3mb) and the total kit is not larger than 100mb.
More info here:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1274
Ok
so back to the tambourine part
so I got that sound from other kits
is it possible if I add the tambourine to my rock drum kit?
Yes, open BBManager, go to Project Explorer tree view, select Drum Sets, double click “Rock”, select Organize > Add Instrument from the main menu.
You will see your new instrument appear in the end “0-Instrument (vol 0dB)” or smth like that.
Click on it to change the name (optionally), select the necessary MIDI note (obligatorily), note the rest options - you will tweak them later when polishing the overall sound.
Close settings, and add some WAV samples to there. They will be played when your selected MIDI note will appear in a MIDI pattern.
I added those wav file
but it goes like this
https://scontent-b-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/1655474_1021756991183843_844861152587628299_o.jpg
am I doing something wrong??
Start-End sections should cover a full range of [0;127] without overlapping and empty spaces.
You should fix that.
Either make both 0-127, or make one, for example, 0-63, and the second 64-127.
If the first option is used, one of those two files will be chosen using a special patented secret BeatBuddy™ algorithm for playing a note no matter it’s volume (or verlocity) in the MIDI file. Like say, MIDI pattern 54-54-54-54 can be played like 0.wav-0.wav-1.wav-0.wav, or 1.wav-0.wav-0.wav-1.wav, or anything else.
If the second option is used, a MIDI pattern of 54(40)-54(100)-54(120)-54(60), where bracketed values are a velocity, will always play like 0.wav-1.wav-1.wav-0.wav
thanks
the problem fixed
I got another question
how can I start the second main loop after pause the first main loop?I mean no transition in between
If you have a transition fill assigned to main part 1 but still want to go to main part 2 without playing it, it can currently be done in a bit hack-y way.
To put it simple: make sure you trigger a transition and make sure you released the pedal hold before a new bar kicks in. Depending on how you Queue Period option is set this may lead to exactly what you are intending.
What is Queue Period?
- It is a logical separation margin of a bar.
- If the pedal is pressed/hold before that margin, the fill/transition will play imstantly (right at current bar).
- If the pedal is pressed/hold after that margin, the fill/transition is queued to start on the next bar instead.
As far as I recall, the default setting for Queue Period is 75%.
A 4/4 bar with 75% Queue Period looks like that:
[–1--|–2--|–3--||–4--]
Now if you trigger the pedal when playing 1-st, 2-nd, or 3-rd quarter of a bar, what you triggered will play instantly. And only triggers in 4-th quarter will make the fill queue to the next bar.
Now, we come to the next totally not obvious thing: Transition fills are only queued if the pedal is still being pressed when a new bar kicks in!
So, the full answer to your question is:
Press the pedal after Queue Period but release it before a new bar starts.
Doing that way, you will
- play a clean bar from a main part without insta-changing to transition (as the transition is being queued), and
- no actual transition will be ever played as you released the pedal before the new bar started, and a clean bar of next main part will be playing.
Thus you skip the transition.
This solution may seem somewhat flawed, as if you use 75% Queue Period and, let’s say, 200+ BPM 4/4 time signature, you will probably never ever be able to initiate a transition (as you will be holding the pedal for far too little time!). But this exact situation was being evaluated carefully while beta-testing, and this behavior was specifically chosen as it is the most flexible one.
Simply put, you will probably want to use BPM’s in 100 - 150 range as well as set Queue Period to no higher than 50% to use this technique much more easily.
Can someone explain what “no choke group” means? I’m familiar with choking a cymbal but not with the MIDI definition.
I recommend that you read the “Drum Maker Software manual” which is downloaded as part of the BB manager.
I just found it and read it. I am a Mac user for the last 15-20 years so Windows is difficult and clumsy for me. I downloaded BB 1.33 newest version, I originally only saw the BB software but I had to have a Windows friend help install it as it didn’t want to work at first but we got it working.
I used MIDI in the 80’s extensively so I have an extensive background in MIDI from years ago but would be rusty. If there is a Garage Band user or a user of Logic ProX or perhaps another inexpensive drum software for creating beats out there I’d be interested in hooking up with them. I’ve used all of the Roland Drum machines and a few others and currently have what I want beat wise on those that I could record the MIDI main beats to build from. In the future I’d like to create my own or download from someone’s drum sets until I find the unique sounds I’m looking for. The BB has great sounds just that I need a few softer sets for Diana Krall type jazzy soft brush sets. The drum fills on most of the BB are too loud and busy for soft ballad music. I also play a lot of Big Band Swing style, Bassa Nova and easy listening stuff on occasion beside the typical rock stuff. We play often for the seniors doing oldies but then other gigs we are playing top 40 type stuff and 50’s, 60’s, 70’s music too so I need more variety. I’m anxious to get to know this creative stuff well enough to fly solo.
Where are the MIDI files located within the structure of the BB software? I think I can just adjust the brush set to soften the toms and remix the whole set a little then add MIDI files with the beat structure I’m looking for and that will work for now I’m just uncertain yet how to do that. Is there a way to play a loop while lowering the velocities to hear the changes as you make them? (I haven’t tried yet)
Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to edit the BeatBuddy content. The MIDI files are currently packed and stored in internal proprietary formats that is intended to be parsed only by BBManager.
While you can indeed find the MIDI files used by shipped songs (if I am recalling it properly, they reside in "%WORKSPACE%\default_lib\midi_sources" directory, where %WORKSPACE% is a directory that you’ve set when installing BBManager content), editing those MIDI files won’t do shit, as you will need to manually import them back to their position in BB songs with BBManager afterwards.
Currently this is pretty hard to do. As a workaround, you can add an extra main loop with MIDI files that all have lowered volume for all of their notes. No way to do that automatically.
Yet, this is a suggestion that I keep hearing a lot about. I would value the chances to have this feature added as pretty high.
OK, since I’m asking…I guess there are two things I have yet to grasp as a new user. If MIDI files play the .wav files inside the BB how do I either add my own midi files and edit them for volume using existing .wav files (drum sets) and/or can I edit the MIDI information after I create my own new song using an existing song template and editing the name. I think you get where I’m headed I jus need help finding the way to do it. I see others posting other drum kits (.wav files) and also things like a 1,2,3,4 intro which I’m interested in but as of yet don’t know where to begin to import those and make them work. I think the BB offers more of what I want for live performance than any machine I’ve ever used however, the styles that come with it just don’t work for me at all. (too busy)
Well, I’d start with checking official videos. Then I’d see videos of Psalm40 (they are in his signature). They are awesome and cover pretty much everything to get started with your BeatBuddy comfortably.
I totally understand that not everyone has so much free time to program beats for BeatBuddy, so that’s why we have this forum, and thanks to multiple active members who have contributed a lot of songs, they are here for your free (!) downloading!
when i click your highlighted link above…all i get is …nothing…a lot of links are like that on here. any suggestions?
That post linked to the old forum, the new link updated link is http://mybeatbuddy.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-do-i-make-drum-kits-for-the-beatbuddy.1441/#post-5485
Or you could just search for what you are looking for.