Hey there BeatBuddies!
We have an excellent new release of the BeatBuddy Manager Online (BBMO) for you that has some quality of life improvements as well as critical bug fixes
Thank you for your continued support of our products and our brand and we look forward to hearing all the cool stuff you make with the editor
The Beat Boutique
Wanting to try out some new sounds, check out the brand new Beat Boutique, Singular Sound’s new premiere content for the BeatBuddy. We have 7 brand new drum sets for purchase and new song content coming very soon. Be on the lookout!
Use the brand new Beat Boutique drum set content with your BeatBuddy products! Get 30% off if you buy the Bundle!
The BeatBuddy Plug-in
The BeatBuddy plug-in is an emulator of the BeatBuddy’s playback of MIDI files, and can use any BeatBuddy DRM drumset file. This enables you to load any BeatBuddy DRM file on the BeatBuddy plug-in and hear it played back in your DAW just like it would sound as if you had your BeatBuddy right inside your computer.
This is a way to easily produce using the BeatBuddy brain without the added noise of using cables, no need of adding any gain to reach pro level, plus instant conversion to all supported sample rates and bit rates. Not to mention easy conversion to an audio file in your DAW.
You can find the beta version of the plug in here.
Plug in Use Cases
- Hear the Drum Set in your DAW as it will play back on the BeatBuddy
- Makes editing MIDI files in your DAW much easier to use later on your BeatBuddy (hardware version).
- No more guessing on velocities and avoids the need for using the BeatBuddy Manager to edit or create MIDI files on a large scale, just use the editor to refine as you package your content.
- Produce your songs with the famous BeatBuddy sounds
- Instantly humanize your MIDI track without needing to spend a bunch of time editing MIDI files. The BeatBuddy’s famous round-robin algorithm will take care of the human element.
- Mix your drum set in the plugin mixer or create multiple instances with individual instruments soloed on each instance. Freeze and commit these tracks as .wav files to mix and produce further using your DAW.
- No added noise of using the Hardware version
- Works in any sample rate or bit depth
- Sounds like you gave your MIDI file to a real drummer!
- Large free access to treasure trove of content available on the Singular Sound Forum
- Access 10 years of user generated DRM files
- Edit all of the content quickly using the BeatBuddy Manager Online application
- Tweak or create your own drum sets starting with our own library of sounds or import your own!
1.5.0 Changelog
- Added triplet support to the division drop-down in the song editor
- Added undo and redo to full-screen MIDI editor
- Updated playlist interaction to be more in line with other menus (click once to add, added three-dot menu for other interactions i.e. delete)
- Midi editor now auto scrolls to the bottom on the initial load
- Added loading dialog to drum set export to display progress
- All midi files can now be exported at once for a song file via the 3 dot menu
- Added new options menu to top toolbar
- Moved theme toggle into it
- Added a new “export all” button, which will export all drum sets and songs from the current project into the specified directory
- Redesign accents menus, accents can now be copied and pasted for easy reuse
- Each dynamic range group now has a header for better separation. This will also display the range of samples within the group
- Multiple drum sets can now be imported at once, rather than one at a time
- Multiple fills can now be imported at once
- Made the resize bar for the MIDI editor much more visible and easy to interact with
- The issue text in the footer of the page can now be clicked to display an organized list of all issues in the current project
- Added the ability to drag and drop fills to reorder them
- Individual samples within the drum set editor can now be renamed
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed typo in drum sets
- Fixed file format naming issues
- Fixed Virtual Pedal getting stuck in certain states
- Various Fixes to inconsistent dark theme styling
- Fixed incorrect choking behavior when an instrument was part of a choke group
- Fixed various display issues related to undoing
- Fixed some shortcuts (i.e. undo, redo) having issues with case sensitivity
- Fixed crash related to undo
- Fixed certain cases where the drum set would not update in real-time
- Fixes to incorrect alphabetical sorting, Added Z to A order as well as A to Z
- Fixed bug where tempo could not be changed on the first load of a song
- Fixed song titles being inconsistent if the name is changed during a save
- Fixed erratic behavior in the sample editor when testing playback, samples now play one at a time and in order, rather than randomly
- Fixed inconsistencies in playlist drag and drop behavior, as well as their order
- Updated headers and text shown when a browser is not supported
Of course this would require that enough people use the beta version actively to find all the common bugs before they pollute the main version 