There’s something very strange happening to me on my beatbuddy. I downloaded some brass samples and at home, on my monitors and on my BBm inmy PC, they’re fantastic, really samples. Real tone. But today when I went to perform live, they sounded horrible. Artificial. They sound like synthesizers and not real brass. My PA has quality. Everything is from QSC… I don’t understand what could be happening. It’s incredible how when playing with the BB pedal, the quality drops.
I wonder if use a notebook live this will get better
Hey there, in fact this is what a synthesizer does do, it plays back one sample at different levels (sometimes two samples, some instruments allow a different sample played at value ~ 127 velocity). To make a sample sound more “real” on BeatBuddy you would need to record various samples at different dynamic levels and have multiple similar samples in each dynamic range. This is how we make the content for the BeatBuddy
It’s not the quality of the BeatBuddy but the lack of samples to capture the details for humanizing the samples as much as possible on the BeatBuddy to make it not sound like a traditional synthesizer
Thanks for the post!
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Thanks for the reply. I don’t know if I made myself clear. Sounding like a synthesizer brass is exactly what I don’t want, so I bought this real brass samples pack.
Another thing that really intrigues me is that when I listen to the instruments here on my PC’s BBm, on my monitors, everything is so wonderful, but when I sync with an SD card, plug in the BB pedal, and hear in a PA that sounds completely different.
Why does this happen? Where does this drop in quality occur? This drastic change in tone.
If you connect the BB pedal to your monitors how does that sound? BB through headphones? BBM through the QSC’s?
While QSC speakers are very good (I do have one), anything I put through my monitors does sound better than the QSC speaker. The QSC’s are designed to fill a room with sound whereas the monitors are intended for close critical listening (nearfield monitors). There are likely tradeoffs in the designs between the two and each will do one thing better than the other. Depending on the room the QSC’s are in you may be getting reflections/echos of the sound which may affect how you hear the the brass samples. If you’re running the BB into a mixer to the QSC’s have you tried tweaking the EQ a bit to see if that may help?
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What’s the format of vídeos to post here??
If you’re still talking about audio quality, you probably don’t need video. Recording and saving as a .wav or .mp3 would serve the same purpose. Suggest you zip the files so you can more easily attach them to a forum post.
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I don’t know how to record direct from BBm
You could always try finding answers to your questions online; for example: Recording desktop audio | Audacity Support
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but the problem is precisely when it leaves the BBm and goes to the SD card and to the PA. I can’t record audio from it. only video.
Can you post a video to Youtube and provide a link here?
Did you try sending the BBM audio to your PA speaker(s) as a comparison to what you hear on the monitors. And conversely try sending the audio from the BB pedal to the monitors to see how that sounds.
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Today I talked to the guy who created these brass samples I’m using. He’s called Brass Bulldog. He gave me three possible reasons for the quality loss. “When you listen to it on your computer, you’re probably hearing the sound in stereo, which is correct. 
When you’re playing it back through the pedal, you’re probably playing it in mono. 50% of the sound is generated.” This is common, but it could also be due to other factors! Mixing when exporting the song, or the pedal’s internal equalization, etc. (Since BB doesn’t have equalization, I ruled that out?) Of these three reasons, I think the only possible reason is the stereo one, since I actually use only a mono cable, even though I leave it in stereo without a pedal. I think that’s the best option.
If that’s really the issue, you might double check that you have the BB set to sum stereo to mono, or else you might only be playing the left channel and actually missing half the sound
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I actually only use one cable but I set the BB in stereo, which I think sounds better. Last week I started using two cables and I think the quality has improved. In fact, this kit is made for keyboard players to use on contact, so obviously it won’t sound the same on the BB, but I’ve already seen an improvement.