I appreciate you telling me that. Glad it’s working well!
It’s really nice to see it being used and enjoyed. Thanks for your comment.
I downloaded this a while back and use it all the time.
Too bad Singular Sound can’t get their **** together on the BBM software.
Thank You for stepping up!!
could you please resend the link to me
Click on the link right above this and scroll to message 10/20 where you’ll find the Dropbox link to v5.
Thank you
I was using version 2 and would like to use it. Is it available?
Yes
great.
please provide the link
Link no longer works.
The link above for v5 still works.
The video is private.
The reason I was requesting to use the previous version was the csv format results converted to a spreadsheet template I had created.
Joe Southern responded to my original spread sheet I had posted on your forum several years ago. In his version 2 the text file, the limiters were easier to import to the spread sheet. I used a spreadsheet to calculate the sng order position with MSB and LSB in Decimal and Hex form.
When you have updated your video to public I will review to re-evaluate my usage.
Thank you.for you assistance
Don’t click on the Youtube video link.
To expand the window with that particular post, click on BeatBuddy MIDI Control Program and you’ll see the Dropbox link.
I have version 5
The output format of csv or text don’t import to spreadsheet as the version 2 did.
I must be missing something in your comments. I asked if the earlier versions were available. your comment appeared to comment they are.
I would appreciate access to the earlier versions
Thank you
Sorry. All I read was what you initially posted and I regrettably assumed you wanted the latest version. Both v1 and v5 are still available however, just like you, I am unable to access any previous versions.
Perhaps another user has v2. If not, you can try sending a PM to Joe_Southern and see if he responds.
Sorry for the hassle.
No problem. I’ll PM Joe_Southern
Is this still available? If so could I get a link to it at greg@gmail.com been try to figure out a way to print songs and folders etc.
Thanks.
Hey there Greg and others. (How could you get a gmail with just Greg at? Wow that has to be from the beginning of time (: )
The reason I stopped distributing my software was because of all of the changes going on with the Beat Buddy software. They made it open source some years back – I’m not sure on current status as it’s been years since I’ve looked at it. For me, it was a difficult platform (framework) to try to integrate my programs into it and It appeared to me it was going to be effectively abandoned. The last time I looked, there really wasn’t activity on the open source project. I kind of suspected it may be a start over type thing. I certainly could be wrong.
The software I wrote was based on whatever the BB Manager version was when I released it. It anticipates certain formats of the data based on the version in effect at that time. Unpredictable results could occur if the underlying formats changed as in updates to Beat Buddy manager. Therein lies my concern. I saw a lot of instability and/or changes coming to the BB Manager software.
I did these programs as a free thing to help other users and honestly myself as I use it. I have/had no idea how my program would react to changes to the BB Manager. The updates or variations of the releases could cause my program to not operate properly as I said. Personally, I didn’t want people irritated with me because my program now didn’t work, acted funny, resulted in BB data loss, made them play in the wrong key, made their girlfriend run away with the keyboard player (: etc. And I really didn’t/don’t have time to test it with all those various versions. So, I pulled the programs.
As users may recall and as I recall I had 3 different programs along with operational videos. And it was only windows based. So, limited interest too.
I still use BB. I haven’t updated my bb manager for years. It’s been working for me for my present needs. Of course it does have limitations which is why I did my programs in the first place. I still use my programs in conjunction with the old BB Manager.
I debated about putting my programs on github and then other users could do whatever – make changes, etc. But again, I’m not interested in a lot of work (: and I’m not sure what it would take to do that nor the interest. Being Windows only is limiting in the music world for a lot of people --I know that. However windows a great environment me and for programming. I’ve programmed for the mac before but the licensing etc from apple isn’t currently what I’m doing nor was the program designed for apple (you can’t just wave a wand). As I said I program in Windows because I can do a tremendous amount relatively easily. And that’s why a lot of cross platform programs like the BB Manager can be more difficult – for me anyway.
So, I know several people have asked and messaged me about one or all of my programs. So, there is kind of the story on it.
Hello Joe Southern,
As a new BeatBuddy owner (12/4/2024) I have spent many hours over the past month trying without success to make Onsong charts select a BB Pattern, Drum set and Tempo. I had 60+ Christmas songs to play at 4 Christmas sing-alongs and really wanted an automated drum selection. Regrettably, today is 1/1/2025, and just today I managed to get Onsong to select a BB pattern. I continued to use my Alesis SR16 (manually) for those Christmas performances. Since today I had a breakthrough with Onsong, tonight I visited the BB forum to see if I could find a listing of the BB patterns, and I found your impressive thread. I was very excited to try out your program that sorted songs by pattern, etc. My day job is providing automated LED sign solutions, and I loved watching as you did what we do, writing software and adding features and fixes based on customer feedback. Getting to the end of the thread and finding that as a latecomer I have missed the bus was unexpected, kind of like reading a great book with a sad ending. But I completely understand how changes others make can obsolete existing software. Look at all the Windows XP programs that won’t run in W10 or 11. I also read how BB users were slammed by BB firmware updates that ruined their existing song settings and required countless hours to correct. I am writing to commend you for what you did by releasing five versions of your sorting program in a very short time frame. I am sure you saved many musicians a tremendous amount of time. I also want to say that If you decide to roll up your sleeves and make a Version 6, I would happily contribute as I am sure others would. It sounds like your sorting program also reveals important MIDI coding details that would be very helpful to me and other BB newbies with hundreds of songs not yet automated for use with BB. I have 1850 unique songs programmed in Onsong. I notice that legacy versions of the BB Manager are available. If a BB user decides to stick with the legacy version, would your V5 program still work? I will keep a watchful eye out for your posts. Your newest fan, Mike Sisk from San Diego.