[CLW]

Mike at ZuberSoft directed me to your thread for information on MIDI control of the Beat Buddy pedal.  I'm new to Mobile Sheets and I have a Beat Buddy pedal also and would like to control it through the Song Sheets in Mobile Sheets.  Can you help me with the following questions:
1. What method are you using to connect your tablet to your Beat Buddy - direct cable or Bluetooth.  Can you share with me where you purchased the cable or the Bluetooth device to connect the Beat Buddy to your tablet.  I have the MIDI cable for the Beat Buddy already.
2. At this time, I just like to try having the Song Sheet select the song on the Beat Buddy from the list of songs I have setup on it already.  I don't need to select a Style or Tempo on the Beat Buddy at this time. Not sure whether you have try this and if so, what do you think is the best approach and the MIDI command to use for this request and how do I set this up on the Song sheet in Mobile Sheets so it will send this when the Song Sheet is selected.

Thanks.

Hello Music Lover

Thanks for your message.

I extensively use MobileSheets on my Android to control the Beat Buddy and the settings on my keyboard. When I select a song in MobileSheets, various midi commands that I have setup in the Midi tab of the song instantly selects the Drum style, tempo, volume and settings on my Nord.

To answer your questions
1. I use a cable to connect my tablet to my Beat Buddy. You will find details of the connection at  mioXC — iConnectivity . The problem is the Android tablet does not have enough power to send midi messages via this cable to the Beat Buddy. I therefore had to purchase a midi power adapter available at  MIDI Solutions Power Adapter; Power Supply for MIDI Solutions Products . The midi connection cable from my Android connects to the power adapter and from the power adapter to Beat Buddy.
2. Go into the song sheet in MobileSheets and tap the middle of the song to bring up various menu options. At the top left-hand corner select the pencil icon. A set of tabs will appear and select the Midi tab. Select + then add a label name. The Command Type is Patch Select. The Channel is 1 (this is the channel set in Beat Buddy). The Command is MSB = 0, LSB = the style on Beat Buddy. Remember midi numbers start from 0 so Ballad mini being the first style will have a value of 0 and the second style Blues will have a value of 1. Value = the number of the beat within the style, Ballad 2 within Ballad mini being the first beat will have a value of 0. Send on song load will be On. Load song on Receive will be Off. Select OK. Select Ok at top of screen.  Now when that song sheet is selected, the Beat Buddy will be changed to your settings on the song.

Hope this helps

Regards

CLW

Thanks for the quick reply and information.  Much appreciated.  Have you try using Bluetooth MIDI to connect from the Tablet to the Beat Buddy.  This will free up the USB port as one concern I have is if I used the USB port on the Tablet for the MIDI connection, then I have no way to charge the Tablet and it may run out of power in the middle of a session.  Also, do you know what MIDI command can be used to select a specific song already programmed into the Beat Buddy as I have a list of songs already setup with the style and tempo in the Beat Buddy and I just need to be able to select that song using Mobile Sheets instead of using the knobs on the Beat Buddy to find that song.

Hello Music Lover

Selecting a song using Midi in Beat Buddy is exactly the same as selecting a beat as described above.

I assume you have setup your list of songs in Beat Buddy using the Beat Buddy Manager.

Open the Beat Buddy Manager on your PC. On the left hand side of the screen in the Songs tab there will be folders that contain the various styles of beats and you may have a folder that contains your songs. Count down from the top the number of folders. Your songs folder may be number 20 for example. Refer to my notes above, LSB for your folder will be 19. Within your song folder will be a number of songs that you have setup. Let's say the song in Beat Buddy you want MobileSheets to select is song number 5 in that folder. Value (see my notes above) will be 4.

If you program the Midi setting in your song in MobileSheets to the above, when that song is selected, the song in Beat Buddy will also be selected.