Apologies, I’m new here and I’m sure this has been asked many times before (although none of the searches I’ve tried turn it up, might not be using the right terms?) but is there a detailed instruction document on how to edit a Beat Buddy song file?
Specifically I want to add a count in on specific tracks (It’s no use setting it on the Beat Buddy itself as I need the intro as well as the count in, not either/or) and according to the internet I can do so by editing the specific song in the BBMO, clicking on the intro section (which opens a MIDI editor? Not sure mine does.) and then “inserting” a one bar or 4 beat count in at the start of the intro section which then becomes part of the intro itself.
It all sounds plausible, however, the details on how to actually do this are very vague and I can’t work it out myself. from the descriptions I’ve seen it doesn’t sound as though it should be very difficult so I’m trying to find a more detailed description of how to do this.
If you haven’t spent some time browsing the BBMO User Manual, you might want to do so. It lays out the different parts of the BBMO and the illustrations will help you recognize use the different parts of the BBMO along with their functions. This includes the MIDI Editor
Once you are somewhat familiar with these parts, it becomes much easier to grasp the explanation of how easy it is to add a count-in to the intro section of a beat.
You can check out the BBMO tutorials to get started, and also check the manual as Persist mentioned and if you get stuck at any point, feel free to email us at support@singularsound.com.
If you email us, you can also request a short video, and I’m happy to send you a video showing the steps to add an intro, just please be specific on what you want to achieve.
Here’s what I dug up from ChatGPT and then edited to hopefully make better sense of the steps involved:
Step-by-step in BBMO
Duplicate the beat first so you are not editing any of the original Default Content Beats. Suggest you try by using Blues 1 as your test beat with the Standard drum set.
Open the beat in the Songs tab, then click its existing Intro MIDI file to open the MIDI editor.
Set Bar Count to one measure more than the current setting by pressing the Shift key while pressing the Up-arrow (to see the Up and Down arrows, hover in the Bar count: box). Instead of one bar, you should have two. By using the Shift Up-arrow, the BBMO will add a new measure at the beginning of the Intro section. Note: If you don’t press the Shift key when adding 1 bar to the count, it will add it to the end of the Intro.
Go to the drum lane column and select Cross Stick (or any drum instrument of your choosing).
At the beginning of measure 1, double-click to add each of four notes on beats 1, 2, 3, and 4 in that lane. Adjust the velocity between 70 and 80.
Press Play in the MIDI editor to check the count-in followed by your Intro. Save the project and test it on the BeatBuddy 2.
You can follow the screen shots of the process in the enclosed pdf
I also spent a bit of time reading the manual in detail as you suggested (learn to walk before I try to run!) so I managed to make more sense of it and finally got it sorted! Part of my issue was just that the colour scheme that my BBMO used by default didn’t actually make clear the various sections. Once I changed it, it became more obvious what was where.
