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Introduction
BeatBuddy Manual
Congratulations
and thank you for purchasing your BeatBuddy!
What it does
The BeatBuddy is the world’s first pedal drum machine that enables musicians to
easily control the beat hands-free. Just by pressing a pedal, you can start a beat,
insert fills, transition from verse to chorus, throw in drum breaks (pauses), trigger
accent hits
(
such as hand claps or cymbal crashes
)
and more! It is the closest thing
to having a real drummer. And it won’t drink all of your beer! In fact we have a
Sobriety setting
so you can control how drunk your BeatBuddy gets, no beer
required! (for real)
Content format
The BeatBuddy is a MIDI based drum machine. The beats in the songs are MIDI files.
MIDI files are like musical notes on sheet music, which tell the musician what to play
on an instrument. The drum sets on the BeatBuddy are collections (libraries) of WAV
sound files - which are recordings of the actual drum sounds. The MIDI files trigger
the WAV files in the drum sets. That is how the BeatBuddy is able to play any beat,
any time signature, using any drum set at different tempo settings to get a
completely different sound.
Whenever possible, the BeatBuddy’s drum sets and beats were set up using the
, so that most beats work with most drum sets.
Please note that not all beats and drum sets sound good together -- it may sound
strange to play jazz beats on a heavy metal drum set -- or it may sound cool! You
decide.
Please Note
: There is
one exception
, and that is the
Latin genre/drumset
. The
Latin genre is exclusively compatible with the Latin drumset. We occasionally have
some library content that also is mapped to the Latin drumset (e.g. a few songs in
the Beatles package), and those songs are preset to use the Latin drumset as
default.
