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BeatBuddy the Only Drum Machine That sounds Human and is Easy To Use

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The first drum machine in a pedal format, enabling full hands-free, creative control of the beat
Included: Over 200 songs in 24 genres (that you control) and 10 ultra-realistic drum sets
Holds 3.2 million songs / 300 drum sets. Download new content or create your own songs or drum sets
Visual Metronome on LCD screen makes it easy to improve rhythm and play new time signatures
Award-winning sound quality-the first drum machine that doesn't sound like a machine

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“We’ve never tested a product that is as innovative as the BeatBuddy.”

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“A dream come true for one-man band singer-songwriters.”

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“A genius idea.”

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Not All Great Drummers Are Human

The BeatBuddy is a pedal that gives performers complete control over the beat while playing live.

So while you play your instrument, you also have control over the drums.

We live-sampled professional drummers at full dynamic range to make the beats in the BeatBuddy.

When you hear the drum patterns and start to control them live, it is truly like a human drummer playing along with you.

Play right out of the box:

10 drum sets
24 genres
220+ styles


Visual Metronome The moving line shows which beat is currently playing in the measure. (A 3/4 beat will have three lines, a 4/4 beat will have four lines, etc.).	Choose Your Own Drum Set Your thrash beats sound awesome on the metal kit, but you might want to play them with brushes or even on a hand drum.	Additional Content Download up to 3 million songs from the online library. Create your own beats with the free software. Share your songs with the BeatBuddy community.

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Functions:

- Live hands-free control of the beat.

- No programming necessary.

- Visual Metronome.

- MIDI Sync.

- Use with guitar, piano, harmonica, or any electric or acoustic instrument.

- Award-winning realism.*

-Studio-grade 24-bit sound.

-True stereo.

- Non-quantized (feels human, not mechanical).

- Beats are recordings of professional drummers.

- Use with any sound system, including headphones.

*Guitar World Magazine's Platinum Award and the Guitar Player Hall of Fame Award, among others, for having incredibly realistic drums, 2015.

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Product description

BeatBuddy is the first drum machine in a guitar pedal format that enables full hands-free, creative control of the beat. Musicians can effortlessly insert fills, transition from verse to chorus, add accent hits, throw in drum breaks, and more, to create an unprecedented live drummer effect - all in award-winning, ultra-realistic 24-bit sound. The non-quantized beats, recordings of real drummers, makes BeatBuddy the first drum machine to not sound like a machine.

BeatBuddy is packed with features for musicians from all walks of life. A visual display of the beat makes it easy to improve rhythm or play with unfamiliar time signatures. MIDI Sync controls your loopers to make sure they're in time with the beat. Record directly from the BeatBuddy for professional-level drums on your upcoming album. Create gig lists and scroll through your songs, hands-free, during your next performance.

It's the power of a drum machine with the simplicity of a pedal.

FUNCTIONS
• MIDI Sync
• Visual Metronome
• No programming necessary
• Live hands-free control of the beat
• Use with guitar, piano, harmonica, or any electric or acoustic instrument

INCLUDED CONTENT
• 24 genres
• 220+ styles
• 10 drum sets
• All time signatures

ADDITIONAL CONTENT
• Add up to 3 million songs
• Add up to 300 drum sets
• Create with the free software
• Download from the Premium Library
• Share on the our Forum

SPECS
• True stereo
• Award-winning realism
• Studio-grade 24-bit sound
• Non-quantized (feels human, not mechanical)
• Beats are recordings of professional drummers
• Use with any sound system, including headphones

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Item Weight

1.15 pounds

Product Dimensions

5 x 3.5 x 2.5 inches

ASIN

B00S0DG918

Item model number

BeatBuddy

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304 ratings

4.5 out of 5 stars

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#19,706 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
#14 in Drum Machines
#7,147 in Music Recording Equipment

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

January 9, 2015

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what they dont tell you- revised 2020 review

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2019

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ive had 'drum machines' before, just fancy metronomes. well, this is not that. it sounds realistic, and its very fun to work with as a solo guitarist. but heres the rub- it has a bank with genres and drum kits. you toggle between the 2 to get the sound you want. the problem is, well, most of the beats sound the same. they sell you 500 beats but really youre getting maybe 80 different beats. I went through all of them today and for instance- the techno- I couldnt tell the difference between the 10 in the list. the same with many others. and all the information is stored on an sd card. the beat buddy is really just a mini computer that reads the information as you press the pedal. the good news- its instant- no lag. thats the selling point of this device. playing live. why 3 stars? well, once you purchase and register on the site, they let you know that all the best beats are available!!! just pay another $200 to get them. I call that a SCAM. Also- were is the ska beats? I like the product- but I sense a bit of greediness on the the part of the stockholders..revised - 2020- the company released an update that included many more beats, some I really find perfect. So I’m changing my review from a 3 to a 4.6. No 5 because I had to spend hours online to get this figured out- sad face emoji

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Jason DeFrank

FINALLY! A drum machine done right!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015

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This pedal is truly amazing. I've always had trouble with drum machines and the BeatBuddy is finally a drum machine done right. It is super easy to use, sounds amazing and gives you very powerful hands free control of the beat with very little effort.

I'm a singer/songwriter and play acoustic guitar. And when I write songs at home or perform solo in coffee houses, I need a beat to work with. Music without a beat is... weak. So I tried it all -- the Alesis SR16, Boss Dr. Rhythm, etc. but they were so complicated I just gave up after getting really frustrated. And they sounded mediocre if not terrible. But the BeatBuddy is FINALLY a drum machine done RIGHT!!!

This is what I like:

Super duper easy to use: Seriously my grandma can use this thing. And she has! I've never seen her jam so hard, she was having so much fun I was laughing so hard I cried. You just press the pedal and a fill gets thrown in perfectly in time, no matter where in the measure you press the pedal. Holding down does a transition which ends when you let go -- really intuitive!

Beautiful display: When have you seen a full color LCD screen on a stompbox? Never. The visual interface is really genius and is a large part of why the BeatBuddy is so easy to use. It changes color depending on what type beat is playing (red is intro/outro, green is main drum beat, yellow is fill, white transition, black is paused). So just by glancing down, you know what the beat is doing. But the real genius in the interface is the visual metronome. It's a dark bar that moves across the screen in time to the beat. So if the time signature is 4/4 it takes 4 bars to move across the screen, or if it's 5/4 it takes 5 bars, etc. So you know just by looking at the screen when the fill or transition is going to end and you can time yourself to the visual cue -- THIS. IS. HUGE.

It made me better at guitar: I have seriously gotten better at my timing within a day of getting the BeatBuddy. My guitar teacher even said he noticed a big difference since I started playing with my BeatBuddy. So now he's getting one too! He's really excited to use it to teach his students.

It inspired me to write awesome songs: It's so much easier to write music when you have a beat to work off - it gives you something to play to. And since the BeatBuddy comes with over 200 beats in over 22 different styles, I've started experimenting with playing to different styles of beats which has made me write very original tunes and different to what I usually do. It's making me grow as an artist.

It sounds amazing: When I was first jamming with it, one of my musician friends came over and he was like "how did you fit a drum set in your room?!!" he couldn't believe it was a drum machine, it sounded so real. Though word of warning: If you have it plugged into an electric guitar amp it will sound muffled - those amps cut the high frequencies. The best is to plug it into a PA. If you have a digital amp with the 'Aux in' jack, then it's ok. You just plug the BeatBuddy's 3.5mm heaphones jack into the amp's aux in jack. I personally have the BeatBuddy's headphones jack plugged into my home stereo's AUX IN jack and it sounds amazing, especially because it's in stereo!

It saved me (a lot) of money: I play lots of small coffee house type gigs. And they don't pay that much. So it really hurts when I have to split the money with a percussionist (have I mentioned that music without a beat is weak?). Now don't get me wrong - I love percussionists and drummers and I think they fully deserve getting paid like the rest of us musicians. But my particular percussionist tended to drink as the night went on and would start getting sloppy. And then he wouldn't show up to some gigs at all without bothering to cancel. Been looking for a replacement, but no luck... until I got my BeatBuddy! Now I have a drummer who keeps perfect time ALWAYS, and I keep all the gig money! I paid for my BeatBuddy within 4 gigs, and now I make double the money!

In short, this is best investment I've made in my musical career. Other than learning to play guitar in the first place, of course.

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Scott Hamilton

Midi control is flawless. Sounds are great

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016

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I previously owned this pedal, then sold it because it was to hard to go from song to song for me while I was doing all the other one man band stuff I do. I bought the pedal again, because this year they made the patches and tempos controllable by midi so now I can use my ipad program, Onsong, to send midi commands to beat buddy that auto changes the patch and the tempo. Brilliant.

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Eli

Absolutely rocks! Has reinvigorated my guitar and piano playing.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017

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I love this thing. I play guitar as a hobby typically by myself or with just a couple of buddies, and consider myself fairly decent. In working on some complex licks, I was having issues with considering the rhythm of songs I was trying to cover. With Beat Buddy, I can finally have unabated jam sessions, which as many fills, crashes, and beat stops as I want!

Sound quality:
I love hooking it up stereo to my mixer and running it through 2 12" Alto PA speakers and a 112 sub - with this rig you could have a party with just the PA and the Beat Buddy. As mentioned before, this sounds really amazing in full stereo and with a setup that can truly articulate it's bass notes. It also sounds great through a regular speaker via the phones 1/8 jack into a bluetooth speaker or cabinet. However, I don't totally recommend this through a guitar amp. It sounds OK, but guitar amps were never designed for these kind of drum frequencies, and so cymbals and bass kicks are pretty muted and honestly I think could be doing harm to your precious guitar amp. I think if you are not going to run this through a mixer and speakers, the best, most user-friendly accessory to use this with would be any dedicated drum monitor, and if not that then I'd say an acoustic instrument amp or a keyboard amp.

Seriously though, this has re-invigorated my passion for guitar and piano, for several reasons. For one, the Beat Buddy user community is very impressive, and is comprised of some very intuitive, creative people who are willing to share their ideas. This makes it so I can envision a song I'd like to learn/ cover, and then usually if I go on the user forum, I can download the beat to the entire song, that someone has created! If the beat wasn't custom-created, then nearly as useful is the suggestion of the BPM, specific beat, and specific drum kit to use for the song in question. I absolutely love browsing the forums for new ideas.

All that said - I love it. Also, you really should get the optional footswitch - it opens up some really great possibilities to improvise by adding crashes or 'start/stop' beat pauses - I really enjoy experimenting with the footswitch, and find that its super intuitive and easy to jam right along with the guitar without much thought at all.

As the manufacturers state, this is NOT a backing track. This truly is a simulated drummer that responds live, and I think it does an awesome job at it. For anyone stuck in a rut on their guitar learning or piano learning (or drum learning for that matter!), this thing is simply amazing and I can't recommend it enough.

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Great pedal, horrible web support.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2018

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This pedal is an excellent idea and it works very well. If you buy one however, you will soon realise that there are not many useable beats supplied, so you will either have to buy some or make them yourself and this is where things becomes difficult. The website is terrible with many broken links and it took me a long time to find that there is no user manual for the current version of their complex pc/mac software. You can buy beats in groups for $5 so I found myself paying $5 for one beat I wanted and 9 that I didn't. For a pedal costing £300 This level of after purchase support is unacceptable.

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BeadBuddy for Live music

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019

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I used the BeatBuddy in a live performance triggering intro, stops, starts and fills. It was the perfect accompaniment and unlike a real drummer, it kept perfect time. Maybe they should have another setting that fades in and out of time to be more authentic .... joke !

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Howe Sounder

No opinion; just facts

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2020

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Fact: product was received on time, all in order. Followed the instructions on setting up the BeatBuddy
Fact: out of the box the unit powered up, showed that a beat was playing, but there was no drum sound
Fact: tried multiple headphones, aux ins, no sound from the unit
Fact: researched BeatBuddy forum (from a Google query) and saw a common problem is the manufacturer neglects to ship the "Drums" file: the folder that has the drum sounds, that should be on the card that you insert in the BeatBuddy, which contains all the software that essentially run the unit
Fact: took the memory card and put it in my computer, deleted all files, downloaded the software package
Fact: put the card in the unit, powered up, worked fine. Great sounds. Removed the power adaptor from the plug and put the unit aside.
Fact: plugged in the unit the next day to hear the beats available; worked fine. Unplugged, put away.
Fact: third time I plugged the unit in, it was dead. No display, no functionality. Tried different outlets, then measured the voltage at the adaptor assuming it had failed--no power issues. As an electronics technician I took the back off and traced the voltage through the circuit board; was definitely powering the board.
Fact: Didn't feel I should have to troubleshoot a new product so packed it up carefully in its original packaging and requested a return through the Amazon site. This was approved by the seller.
Fact: Shipped UPS/signature request from Victoria to an apartment in Miami. Paid for the $40 in shipping. Notified of product reception at 7:23 in the evening a week later.
Fact: waited 15 days for a refund---none processed.
Fact: Initiated an Amazon A-Z Refund Guarantee procedure and received the refund 9 days later after being asked twice for the shipping number.

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B.M.

The BeatBuddy. Keep The Beat With Your Feet.

Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2018

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Hands down, this is the absolute very best in drum sets for any amount of money. Very simple to use, a great intuitive menu that's easy to read and use and by far, it's as good or better than having your own drummer and you don't have to listen to him gripe, and you don't have to pay him which makes the BeatBuddy pay for itself in just a few jam sessions.

Buy this, or the BeatBuddy Mini. You won't be sorry.

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Savio

Pretty Good but costs an Arm and a Leg - Also adds to the Hum

Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019

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Hi, This is an amazing product. I had the Lite version before but that was crap as you could not download anything on to it. The only negative point I would like to bring up about this product is that it adds to the overall Hum, which is really annoying. I have a Distortion pedal as well as an NS-2 Noise suppressor, My NS-2 cuts off the noise of the Distortion completely. This however has to be put after the Noise Suppressor else it cuts off all the drum beats. After adding this pedal the Hum comes back and by a significant amount. I wish they found a way to cut the Hum.

It's good they have a library now where you can download drumbeats and other cool stuff but again that costs an Arm and a leg too. Considering what you have already spent for the pedal I which they would throw that in free as well.

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The BeatBuddy is a pedal that gives performers complete control over the beat while playing live.

A Drum Machine Designed For Musicians Not Technicians

Visual Metronome

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