The missing app for your BeatBuddy

BeatBuddy
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Ah I see simply a deeper and more complex set of programming logic. Ie it might take any kit and the program logic uses the markers which subdivide parts.

As a user of midi I send the command to go to section 3 because I know if it exists or not if I have created or studied the kit in advance. But of course if that Kit was created by others I would not know it had a section 3. But then logically I also wouldn’t logically be using such a kit anyway as I wouldn’t know what it would do.

Thanks for clarifying.

Cheers
David

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One example is Take me Out - Franz Ferdinand, the tempo starts at 144, so BB tempo set at 144. The slow down happens about 45secs into the song, over 4 bars, then rest of song is at 105bpm

Currently I have programmed each of the 4 bars to reduce by 25% from 144bpm down to 105bpm, then the remaing part of the song is also time stretched in logic to 105bpm. So the ‘beat bar’ crossing the screen is still running at 144bpm but the pattern is 105bpm - I just have to remember not to look at the screen during the song as my brain will explode :rofl:

So the tempo change is 4 step changes - which just sounds weird.

The 2bpm change could work but that would be 19 pedal presses in 4 bars :worried:

what I was hoping for was a fader that I could drag up and down - and it would tell me the tempo as i moved up or down.

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Hi, I am looking for a solution to control my beat buddy & Aeros. I just purchased your app. Would you recommend a midi device to connect my phone to the beat buddy please?

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Any Bluetooth MIDI dongle will work. I use the MD-BT01 from Yamaha

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@Andy_Guerin,

Did you find a solution for tempo change mid song? I’ve made a MIDI designer layout (for my own use) that has a tempo slider on screen that only sends the value as you release your finger. I have limited tempo from 50 to 177 BPM (I think that’s a useful range - for me anyway). I’ve also put buttons for plus/minus 1 or 10 BPM and tap tempo.

Prob not as sophisticated as this app (other than tempo changes :-)… but does what I need.

Gary W

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This could be done by mounting your BB to your mic stand so you don’t have to bend over and then wiring in a separate footswitch to control the BB. On my original BB I used the norbert hack, but on newer BB’s it’s a little different (took me multiple tries to get it to work the same way), but I believe people have posted on an easier method of wiring in a new footswitch.
I use a Boss FS-FU as my external footswitch. This way you can use the tempo dial directly on the BB.

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Here is a copy of the email that I sent to BBFF.Rocks after I bought the app from the Apple App Store.

Dear BBFF.Rocks Support,

I just decided that it was worth the risk so, I went ahead and purchased the BBFF app from the Apple App Store to use with my iPad Pro.

Once I got my BeatBuddy Project uploaded from my computer and got the app connected to my MIDI Maestro, I discovered the following:

1.) The BBFF works great! Just exactly as described in the information displayed on the Apple App Store.

2.) The BBFF app doesn’t interfere at all with the connection to my MIDI Maestro when I switch to the OnSong app., which is also connected to the MIDI Maestro.

By the way, it was after I went to the BeatBuddy User Forum and discovered and read most if not all of the Posts relating to the BBFF app, when I decided to give it a chance and I’m so glad that I did!

Sometime this week, I will write a positive glowing Post to that same User Forum. I will also write a positive and glowing Review on the Apple App Store.

Give me a couple of days as I’ve got a busy schedule this week but, Thank You so much for all of the creative thought and effort which you put into writing the Code for the BBFF BeatBuddy Friends Forever app! I just wish that I’d known about and purchased it as soon as it was available.

On the majority of the gigs that I don’t have a live drummer on, this is going to make my use of the BeatBuddy so much slicker, faster and easier.

Kudos to you! And I agree, BBFF.Rocks!!!

PS I also shut everything down and then started everything back up like I was setting up at a gig. I didn’t have to reload my BeatBuddy Project. It was already in the app. Also, once I connected to the MIDI Maestro within the BBFF app, I checked in the OnSong app, and it was already connected without me having to do it manually like I usually do.

This is so great! Thanks again! Definitely worth more than the $32.99 price tag!

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