BeatBuddy Drum Kit

[NoAliby]

I have compiled a drum kit that I use for creating loops for my BeatBuddy.

It has the same Drum Instrument Names as the common BeatBuddy Kits (Brushes, Dance, Metal, Rock, Standard) and works for Jazz as well (the only differences are that the jazz kit uses a cowbell for the splash and a stick-on-stick shot instead of a Hand clap)

The Midi mapping is according to General Midi standards so that the export to midi is correct and can be loaded into the BeatBuddy Manager with the correct instruments assigned.

Let me know if this helps you or what you think.

[Updated File Below]

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Hey @NoAliby ,

I have a couple of questions:

1. are the samples you used part of the BeatBuddy and how are they licensed?
2. how come you didn't use the GMRockKit? If you require a General MIDI compatible kit this default you should do the job as well. Or was something not working there?

[NoAliby]

Hi @theGreatWhiteShark

The samples are all from current free Hydrogen Kits (actually mostly from the GMRockKit, except things like the tambourine and shaker from either "ErnysPercussion" of "Gimme a Hand 1.0")

The GMRockKit is "almost" General Midi compatible. The Cowbell, Ride and Ride2 are placed on Midi Notes for Toms. Also the BeatBuddy excludes samples on some effectively duplicate"sounds so those "notes" are missing, plus there are a few more sounds included on the BeatBuddy standard kits. Before I would use the GMRockKIt and then when you import the midi to the BeatBuddy Manager you just move "unsupported " sounds to the appropriate Tom etc. But having a kit with the correct layout and midi notes assigned just makes it far simpler. (Now if I can only get one of the midi2hydogen import tools working this will be perfect)

Here is a table comparing GM with the GMRockKit and The BeatBuddy standard kit.

MIDI Note	GMRockKit	GM Standard	My BeatBuddy
36	Kick	Bass Drum 1	Kick Drum
37	Stick	Side Stick/Rimshot	Cross Stick
38	Snare	Snare Drum 1	Snare
39	Hand Clap	Hand Clap	Handclaps
40	Snare Rimshot	Snare Drum 2
41	Floor Tom	Low Tom 2
42	Hat Closed	Closed Hi-hat	Hi-Hats Closed
43	Tom 2	Low Tom 1	Tom 4
44	Hat Pedal	Pedal Hi-hat	Foot Hi-Hat
45	Tom 1	Mid Tom 2	Tom 3
46	Hat Open	Open Hi-hat	Hi-Hat Open
47	Cowbell (not GM)	Mid Tom 1
48	Ride (not GM)	High Tom 2	Tom 2
49	Crash	Crash Cymbal 1	Crash Cymbal 1
50	Ride 2 (not GM)	High Tom 1	Tom 1
51	Splash	Ride Cymbal 1	Ride Cymbal
52	Hat Semi-Open	Chinese Cymbal
53	Bell	Ride Bell	Ride C. Bell
54		Tambourine	Tambourine
55		Splash Cymbal	Splash 1
56		Cowbell	Cowbell
57		Crash Cymbal 2	Crash Cymbal 2
59		Ride Cymbal 2	Splash 2
82		Shaker (GM2)	Shaker

[NoAliby]

I have updated the file to capture the Sample Sources as shown below.

Edited GMRockKit Samples (Alistair Baty) GPL

• Tom 2 (Pitch Change on Tom 2)
• Tom 4 (Pitch Change on Floor Tom)
• Cymbal 2 (Pitch Change on Cymbal)
• Splash 2 (Pitch Change on Splash)
  Gimme A Hand 1.0 (Glen MacArthur) GPL
• Hand Clap
• Tambourine
  ErnysPercussion (Erny) "Have Fun!"
• Cabasa (Down, Up and Cut as Shaker Layers)
  GMRockKit (Glen MacArthur / Sebastian Moors) GPL
• All Other Drums

(also some clean-up of unused samples)
[See v1.0 release below]

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Nice. Thanks!

We might add this kit to the others available for download within Hydrogen. Would it be OK for you?

(Now if I can only get one of the midi2hydogen import tools working this will be perfect)

Have you tried using another software capable of reading and sending MIDI? You could wire it's output to the MIDI input of Hydrogen and record the incoming notes. (But I haven't done it myself. Not sure whether this yield satisfiable results)

[NoAliby]

@theGreatWhiteShark
I have uploaded v1.0, which you are welcome to add to the downloads.
It will be helpful if we can use this thread for others to add comments or requests.
PS. I also found that I could not install kits from inside Hydrogen (Online Import). I had to download the kits from SourceForge and then install them using the Local File option.

[theGreatWhiteShark]

PS. I also found that I could not install kits from inside Hydrogen (Online Import). I had to download the kits from SourceForge and then install them using the Local File option.

Could you create an issue regarding this matter and provide some more details, like your OS, Hydrogen version, debug log? This sounds like a bug.

[NoAliby]

@theGreatWhiteShark where do I find the debug logs

[theGreatWhiteShark]

If you are using Linux or OSX just open a terminal and enter hydrogen -VDebug. The log will appear in the terminal

If you are using Windows, open the command interface and enter start "" "C:\Program Files\Hydrogen\hydrogen.exe" -VDebug. Afterwards, use the main menu Debug > Open Debug Log.

[NoAliby]

Thanks.
Issue Logged
hydrogen-music/hydrogen-music#26

[NoAliby]

v1.0 of My BeatBuddy Kit

Please add comments about the kit and any issues or proposed changes.
Things like imbalanced volume levels or filtering requirements etc. or if there is any issues when importing into the BeatBuddy Manager.

My BeatBuddy Kit v1.0.zip

[NoAliby]

My BeatBuddy Kit v1.1.zip

V1.1

• Fix Tom 1 Pitch
• BVP saturation corrections
• Add Panning mods

[NoAliby]

My BeatBuddy Kit v1.2.zip

V1.2

• Fix Patching of Tom 4 to Note 43
• Pitch on Tom1=+5 , Tom 3=+1

[NoAliby]

@theGreatWhiteShark
Could you give me some specific instructions on fixing the two issues?

1. I just used the Mixer to set the pan in the drum kit. How do I fix it so it is compatible with older Hydrogen versions?
2. Do I manually go though and zero Pitch offset, or edit it in the XML file? There were only two instruments that use it.

For versions I have been doing the following, assuming people will over write previous versions

• adding the version number on the zip file
• Including the version in the description text. Both at the top and in the version history at the bottom.

[theGreatWhiteShark]

1. I just used the Mixer to set the pan in the drum kit. How do I fix it so it is compatible with older Hydrogen versions?

It's enough to upgrade to the latest version on master and to export it again. Which OS you are working with? For MacOS or Windows I can prepare the latest executable for you. On Linux you can use the build.sh mm x script to build it from source.

2. Do I manually go though and zero Pitch offset, or edit it in the XML file? There were only two instruments that use it.

Inside the latest version you can update the value by setting it again in the mixer (e.g. clicking the rotary and typing 0.0 using your keyboard). But as there is just a single value that needs to be adjusted, it's probably faster to edit it in the XML file right away.

About the name: do you want to keep the "My " prefix when making it public?

[NoAliby]

I am running Windows 10. If you can link me to the latest master build that would be great!
We can drop the "My". Initially, I wanted to differentiate it from the actual BeatBuddy samples, in case of copy right. But I have posted on their site and with no opposition from Singular Sound to using the actual samples I will do so in the future as V2.0.
I will rename it to "BeatBuddy Drum Kit" on the next export as v1.3

[theGreatWhiteShark]

If you can link me to the latest master build that would be great!

Hydrogen-1.1.1-win64.exe and Hydrogen-1.1.1-win32.exe

[NoAliby]

I think I have covered all that. Saved a new V1.3.

One thing with the latest "1.1.1" is that I can't seem to change the "DefaultSong.h2song" like I used to. I created one with specific pattern names in the song and then linked to my own Drum Kit. Before if I made a new song by clicking "NEW", it would load that default ".h2song". Now it load GMRockKit and the song patterns 1 thru 10. Any ideas?

[NoAliby]

BeatBuddy Kit v1.3.zip

V1.3

• Renamed to BeatBuddy Kit (No "MY"),
• Kick Pitch=0,
• Fixed Panning

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Hey.

While uploading I noticed one last thing. The current license of the drumkit is GPL. However, this license is more suitable to code than to creative output. How about changing it to CC-BY-SA? This is somewhat the GPL of the cultural and artistic world.

[NoAliby]

That does makes sense.
But as the samples in this compilation are based on other kits that use GPL it would be appropriate to be consistent with those.

My BeatBuddy Kit GPL
... using samples from:

• Gimme A Hand 1.0 (Glen MacArthur) GPL
• GMRockKit (Glen MacArthur / Sebastian Moors) GPL
• ErnysPercussion (Erny) "Have Fun!"

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Hmm. Your right. I wasn't aware of this. Especially that we host drumkits that not have been licensed at all (Ernys).

Okay. I will upload it with the GPL one.

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Done. You should be able to download it via the Online Import in Hydrogen after hitting "Update list" in the download dialog.