I’m renting a Beatbuddy to try (no foot switch). I want to end a song on the “and of 2”.
So I made a one-bar MIDI file in Logic with drums on Beats 1 and 2. I left beats 3 and 4 blank. Still, Beatbuddy insists on placing the MIDI information on beats 3 and 4, so the song always ends on the “and of 4”. This is driving me crazy. Is there a solution?
Have you set that as an outro? I probably do things a little differently to many others as I don’t use outro’s at all. My way is I would create the bar I want (eg finish on the AND of the 2nd beat) but do it as a Main Loop part of the song and add several bars of nothing after it, so the 1 bar song part could end up as 10 bars. The reason I do this is to give myself time to stop the song before it repeats the song part.
So basically to finish the song I would transition into the last part (the finishing bar plus several bars to nothing), and double click to stop the song during those bars of nothing.
Hi Neil, yes it was set as an outro. I discovered a work-around in the meantime. I added a single kick on beat 4 to fill out the bar. It actually may work out well because I can mute my guitar sustain with the kick for a tight ending.
Thanks for the tip, as it makes complete sense to me. I’ll definitely experiment with your method going forward.
Glad you got it all sorted out. I had some dramas with using outros so I ended working them as a song loop rather than an outro.
You can also configure an external footswitch to trigger pause … and time that click exactly.
The other trick that works is to just make sure the last drum hit has a midi note long enough to extend to the end of the bar. It won’t lengthen the sound of the note, if it’s a kick or snare, really anything that is labeled as percussion in the BB drum kit.