The Sobriety setting is realy funny (like, “look what my beatbuddy can do!”) but not realy useful (i’d never use it)
But suddeny it gave me a great idea (yep, i was sober at the time)
What if the BeatBuddy could run fills and transitions by itself? (great for jamming). Or even start by itself (great for live performance)
Below a description of what the options / additions to songs could look like:
- Auto start: After start the beatbuddy senses instrument input (the user needs to be able to set the sensivity 0-10)
- Beatbuddy Runs a Fill: using pedal --and-- (after x measures – or – after x parts)
- Beatbuddy runs a transition: using padel --and-- (after x measures --or-- after x parts)
- Beatbuddy runs outro and stop: using pedal --and-- (after x measures --or-- after all sections completed)
We would be able to:
- Just start jamming by stomping on the beatbuddy once! Fills and all other stuff are played by itself so the user can concentrate on the jam, not on tapdancing;
- Enter the full structure of a song in beatbuddy, so once play is pressed BeatBuddy would just run the song without the need of any tapdancing (but we still have control over stops, breaks and other stuff.)
The great thing is that this could all be done with a firmware update (probably except option 1 because of hardware constraints). And yep, the BBManager software needs to be updated to support this.
I hope that functionality like this will be imlemented in the future;
Greetings,
Hans Nieuwenburg