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BeatBuddy Manual
MIDI and the BeatBuddy
BeatBuddy is Receiver (“Slave”) (MIDI IN):
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Quick song selection.
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You may have 3,000 songs in your repertoire and you play gigs where you
get random song requests from the audience. Though you have already
figured out which BeatBuddy beats go with which songs in your repertoire
), you don’t want to have to search
through all of the BeatBuddy’s folders for the right beat when you get a
song request.
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With MIDI, you can use an iPad app such as
, which has your song
database of lyrics and chord charts so that when you pull up the chord
chart to a song on Onsong, it will change to a certain BeatBuddy song
which matches it.
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Additional control with external MIDI footswitch.
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Some users want a footswitch for every function (drum fill, transition,
outro, tap tempo, skip to different song parts out of order, more accent
hits, better tempo controls, etc.).
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So we have created a special ‘CC’ MIDI command for practically every
function the BeatBuddy has, so you can control the BeatBuddy from
another device. (We recommend our universal MIDI foot controller, the
play.)
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Trigger the BeatBuddy’s super awesome drum sounds with an electronic
drum set. Use the BeatBuddy as your Drum Brain!
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So you have a cheap electronic drum set and you hate the way it sounds.
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You can connect the MIDI OUT from the drum set to the MIDI IN on the
BeatBuddy and when you play on the electronic drum set, it will play the
BeatBuddy’s award winning super high quality sounds!
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This is also useful when you’re composing beats in your DAW and want to
test how they will sound on the BeatBuddy -- no need to load the MIDI
files into the BeatBuddy -- just stream the MIDI notes!
