I’ve been using the BeatBuddy paired with my Boomerang Looper for almost a year now and I wish I discovered this earlier. It made almost everything easier for me. Here is one of my original songs written in Tagalog.
I bought both the Reggae Drumset and Beats by Goran Rista and it is awesome both for home practice and gigging. It is definitely a must if you love reggae! I also sometimes play around with them on BB Manager, editing MIDI and swapping drumsets.
I placed my BB under my board together with a mixer for plug and play use and to minimize setup time at the venue. I just have an external foot switch to control the BB, whereas, one of the footswitches were program to be as ‘main’ and the other is for ‘pause/unpause’ and scrolling songs.
Excellent! I also play quite a bit of reggae as well as being a Boomerang III (and now also an Aeros) user. Here’s a tip for you if you decide to pick up an Aeros and are used to the C B/A method of Boomerang where you lay down one rhythm loop and then longer multiples of that loop on the A and B loops…
Set the 2x2 to “Freestyle”… that way you can start each song at whatever tempo you like… play the first rhythm track then you can overdub on that or do longer on the neighbor track. If you set that first loop to “protect” it will perform exactly as the Boomerang III, but it’s kinda cool that you can have a different “rhythm” track for chorus and verse using parts.
I’ve been working on some lessons and tutorials, so I’ll share them here when they’re ready. Rock on.
