@GoranGrooves Thanks. That’s interesting. I don’t use the Premium Library myself, but I’d be interested to know one thing, if you’re willing to say. In the absence of road maps, how were you thinking the users would use the song packs? Were you thinking that users would know the originals sufficiently well to work out when parts changed and fills occurred by listening to the original recordings?
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1st thing I thought too.
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That’s what I’ve done. It’s usually pretty simple to listen in and figure out what’s what. I don’t have the full premium, but have purchased 20-30 tunes, along with building some on my own out of the standard beats. It’s usually not terrible to figure out what the drum parts are. Sometimes though there are like 15-20 drum parts along with various fills and that does get tedious. It helps that some of the drum parts are named helpfully, while others aren’t so much.
I’ve also found some issues, like with Purple Rain. There’s a 6/4 part that’s just not there. The whole song is in 4/4 and I’ve not found a way to make it work. So I modified it myself to have it in there, and basically built a 1 press file out of it.
I’m pretty tech savvy though, and have been playing/studying music for 30 years, so YMMV.
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I would not hold your breath waiting for a NEW or UPGRADED BeatBuddy Manager. I have, like you, been singing about “where’s the support” for years. I know my words will get up the nose of many users but as so many BB owners use third party midi programming platforms to build their files Singular Sound has just basically said “why should we spend the time and money to improve or develop a new BBM” which to me seems like a real cop out on the companies support to their primary product. They did promise such a thing was coming for a couple of years, but nothing came of it. It does appear they dedicate all their tech energy to newer devices and software. How very Apple of them.
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Agreed. I think the important part that SS is missing……
I will not buy another product from them and will not recommend them.
Maybe it doesn’t matter but they could have been more successful.
Too bad.
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I also will not buy another product or midi file from them until SS fulfils their years old promise to improve the BBM. It is truly something out of the 1980’s. Even a Copy/Paste function would improve it 1000%. I am flat-out getting it to not crash when I edit a pattern. Last song I wrote files for on my MacBook BBM crashed twenty two times during the two days over which I finished writing parts as they were a bit elaborate. As a result I am using the BeatBuddy less and more fully written backing tracks I assemble in Logic X with Superior Drummer. I have never been able to successfully copy a Superior drummer midi file across to the BeatBuddy either so I don’t even try anymore. We can only hope.
Thanks so much @GoranGrooves,
I’m just trying to create a couple of OPB’s from my Premium Content & this will be ever so helpful …
Many thanks again 
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Thank you Goran for a most excellent contribution!
Here’s hoping someday we’ll have the Autopilot available to do all that is intended for it.
Cheers, guys! I hope they came in handy as much as possible.
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Can you repost this in Docs and Downloads - Singular Sound Forum or someplace similar. Nobody will be able to find this file in a few months!
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This is somewhat of a big file (384 Meg). If you need a smaller version that doesn’t give up that much on quality, let me know.
Thanks for the charts, Goran. The ones I reviewed seem to make sense. Next time I try to work up an arrangement using your beats, I’ll definitely be using them for reference. I fully agree that these would be confusing to the uninitiated.
I got quite excited when I saw this post, but that soon diminished when I opened some of the files. They made no sense to me at all. This is not a moan directed at Goran as he provided what people were asking for. I just expected a more polished version.
I am very new to the BB so it’s a steep learning curve for me 
Your welcome to the feedback, but we are all out of patience !
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This time last year I posted in this thread asking if there was any ETA on autopilot, as more than a year has passed I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for an update please ?
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I keep watching for something to happen. days, months, years go by and nothing.
Get some good developers and make it happen.
Priorities are somewhere else.
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Seriously, it is any day now.
Goran! I love your stuff (and own quite a bit of it). Any chance of some Neo Soul stuff???
This happens all the time.
There is a subject and somebody turns it into something else.
The subject here is AutoPilot 2020 and Beat Buddy Manager.
Yeah, life is hard. Sorry to rock your world. 
All joking aside, sorry to interrupt the thread.
Just checking in to confirm that there has been no update, does anyone from SS still read this thread ?