Route BB Intro Count-In to Left or Right or Headphone?

BeatBuddy Help, Questions and Bugs
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I couldn’t find any information on this in the manual or on the forum, so I have a question: Can the BB Intro Count-In be exclusively routed to Left, Right, or Headphone while everything else (the drums) is routed to wherever the Intro Count-In is not going?

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17 views in 2 days and not a single comment? Somebody?

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How BeatBuddy’s audio routing works:

  • The BeatBuddy has stereo outputs (Left/Mono and Right) and a headphone output. All parts of the drum track (including the count-in, main beat, fills, outros, etc.) are sent to all these outputs at the same time.
  • You can adjust headphone volume independently of the main outputs, but you can’t isolate the count-in to just one output—everything plays through all outputs simultaneously.
  • There is no menu setting (like “Settings > Main Pedal > Intro > Count In”) allowing you to send just the count-in to a specific output.

Workarounds:

  • Some users send the left channel to in-ears (for example with a mixer), and the right channel to the audience, by customizing the drumset sounds or samples so certain sounds (like the count-in) only play on one channel. But this requires advanced editing with the BeatBuddy Manager and knowledge of how to pan audio samples left/right when building your own drumsets or songs.
  • This is not something that can be done with standard settings on the BeatBuddy—it requires custom sample programming and possibly external gear.

In summary:

  • There’s no built-in way to route just the count-in to one output or to headphones. Everything is sent to all outputs at once.
  • Customizing this would require editing samples and arranging songs so the count-in only appears on one channel, and then splitting the outputs with a mixer or using external equipment.
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Thank you for the complete and concise answer.

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So, who’s gonna edit a kit from stereo to mono, pan all the drums (and maybe the bass notes?) to one side, and the metronome to the other. Not rocket science - just time-consuming. I DID note recently when editing a kit, that the samples ARE stereo. Why would Singular NOT support their product having greater utility to those it serves? Beats me! (see what I did there?)

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Thank you for your feedback! I’ve forwarded it to the team for consideration.