BeatBuddy Premium Library is (NOT) Dead

If you purchased individual beat or song packs or additional drum kits for your BeatBuddy in the past decade, you likely did so at the BeatBuddy Premium Library. And if you tried to revisit URL library.mybeatbuddy.com in the past few months to buy more BeatBuddy songs, check for the 2024 edition of the BeatBuddy Complete Collection, or re-download any of the content you previously purchased, you may have wondered: “What happened to the Beat Buddy Library?” “Is BeatBuddy Library dead?” You may even wonder, “How did I end up in Beat Boutique?”

What Happened to BeatBuddy Library?

GoranGrooves, the exclusive producer of the former BeatBuddy Library’s content, and Singular Sound parted ways in May 2024. The original BeatBuddy Premium Library content is no longer hosted in the domain it used to be in.

It has undergone a metamorphosis and migration to the GoranGrooves Library. To get to the GoranGrooves original content you were used to seeing at the old BeatBuddy Premium Library, you can do that right now:

If you are curious about what transpired before this move, keep reading below for the details.

Background and History Of BeatBuddy Library

My name is Goran Rista, and if you are a BeatBuddy user, you are undoubtedly familiar with my work. I am the producer and copyright owner of all content distributed on BeatBuddy and BeatBuddy Mini pedals. I created the sound that has come to define BeatBuddy’s identity.

For almost a decade, I not only produced nearly all of the content sold at the BeatBuddy Library under my brand GoranGrooves, but as a partner, I also ran the BeatBuddy Library’s everyday operation and managed all aspects of it, both technical and creative. I designed the overall concept, look, and functionalities of the online store and supervised its web development. The BeatBuddy Premium Library was my baby under Singular Sound’s web domain, and I enjoyed a reasonable degree of autonomy. I personally built that business from the ground up and invested a great deal of myself over the last decade in doing so.

While running the BeatBuddy Premium Library operation, I had a small team of trusted professionals who helped with song transcriptions and MIDI editing. A great drummer and friend, Ludwig Afonso, contributed with his talents to the Jazz Drum MIDI beat pack we released. We worked hard to meet customers’ needs by producing content that BeatBuddy users requested. We aimed to release new beats and drumsets regularly. More intricate projects, such as the Brazilian Percussion Beats, required many weeks or months of full-time production to put together.

Other large-scale endeavors, such as my remake of the Default Content 2.0 for BeatBuddy in 2019, took many months to complete, delaying the development and release of GoranGrooves Handy Drums plugins for DAW.

All content produced by GoranGrooves and made compatible with BeatBuddy was sold exclusively at the BeatBuddy Library. This library includes generic MIDI drum loops, popular song packs, and drumsets. Likewise, GoranGrooves was the exclusive content producer for the Beat Buddy Library.

Introduction of the BeatBuddy Complete Collection

At the tail end of 2019, we introduced a bundle containing all of the GoranGrooves content for BeatBuddy that had been produced to date. To users, it has been known by a few names: Premium Library Complete Collection, BeatBuddy Complete Collection, or BeatBuddy Premium Library SD card. We introduced it as a digital download at the BeatBuddy Premium Library and Singular Sound websites. We also offered customers who purchased it at the Singular Sound website an option to ship it as a physical product on an SD card.

The Complete Collection was an instant success and continues to be popular with BeatBuddy customers. See the latest edition of the Complete Collection for BeatBuddy.

As GoranGrooves produced new content, we added it to the Complete Collection. As a courtesy to existing Complete Collection customers, we offered yearly upgrades for $50, which included whatever was produced in a calendar year. We also provided free updates for the remainder of the calendar year for whomever purchased the bundle.

Some customers preferred downloading only the new content as it came out, unlike the entire Complete Collection bundle. Therefore, I implemented a custom downloads solution I originally designed and built for the GoranGrooves Library website. The integration allowed customers to pick what they wanted to download and install in an organized and neat way. As GoranGrooves Library, BeatBuddy Library, and Singular Sound websites were all built on the same underlying web platforms, that implementation was possible and practical for all three.

That convenience was tossed out of Singular Sound’s window when they migrated their main website to the Shopify platform.

The Decline of the BeatBuddy Premium Library

After developing Handy Drums, virtual drum instruments for DAWs, for several years, we, GoranGrooves, launched them in 2022 on the GoranGrooves Library platform. The quality of drum samples and drum loops that have been critical to BeatBuddy’s success since its launch has been rapidly gaining interest and popularity with music makers who utilize DAWs.

In the months following the launch of Handy Drums, I noticed something intriguing and worrisome.

• Prominent links to the BeatBuddy Premium Library vanished from Singular Sound’s website menu and the forum.
• Traffic and revenue to the Beat Buddy Library dropped as BeatBuddy users struggled to find their way there.
• A promotional offer shipped with BeatBuddy pedals that regularly brought new visitors was no longer bringing them.
• At GoranGrooves, we started receiving support inquiries for BeatBuddy content from confused customers, even though we sold or promoted no BeatBuddy content at the GoranGrooves Library at the time.

As it turned out, Singular Sound had deliberately removed all links to the BeatBuddy Premium Library to tamper its traffic and GoranGrooves’ presence, even though they were simultaneously selling that same GoranGrooves content on the Singular Sound website, and despite the facts that:

• BeatBuddy Library was under Singular Sound’s web domain,
• BeatBuddy Library sold no GoranGrooves plugins,
• GoranGrooves sold no BeatBuddy content, and
• The drop in traffic to the BeatBuddy Premium Library was causing Singular Sound equal financial damage as it did to GoranGrooves.

Although the $ figure number of the damage was the same, the actual damage was not, since it was solely GoranGrooves that invested significant time, skill, talent, and monetary assets in building the content and the BeatBuddy Premium Library business over the many years.

Customers were affected by the inability to find and enjoy the premium offerings, most of which were produced based on customers’ requests.

The reason for the sabotage?

When I raised those issues in my email correspondence with SS, the CEO admitted to them and tried to justify them by claiming that this was a response to perceived competitive behavior regarding the release of GoranGrooves Handy Drums plugins.

Revealed to me at the time was that Singular Sound had been working on a BeatBuddy plugin, which they were soon to release in beta. They decided to treat GoranGrooves, a partner for almost a decade, as a competitor for a product they did not yet have, despite GoranGrooves’ efforts ensuring no conflict of interest for products related to BeatBuddy. So, it is quite perplexing that somebody would undermine an existing successful business partnership on the ambition of a questionable future product venture.

When Handy Drums was launched, GoranGrooves offered Singular Sound an overly generous (50%) commission for affiliate referrals, which appears to have been shunned.

It is unclear whether it was an emotionally driven decision or something else.

In any case, Singular Sound’s leadership made an ethically and strategically deplorable decision. It is one in a long line of poor and costly choices.

We at GoranGrooves do not see BeatBuddy Plugin as a threat to our business. And more importantly, when competing, we do not resort to the pitiful covert tactics of sabotage of our partners. In fact, I have used and have written a detailed review of the BeatBuddy Plugin.

Read the BeatBuddy Plugin review.

The End Of The Old BeatBuddy Premium Library As We Knew It

Singular Sound unilaterally decided to “merge” the BeatBuddy Premium Library platform into their main website. They planned to turn into a marketplace, Beat Boutique (cool name), selling their own content and introducing other 3rd party content, effectively shuttering our previous agreements.

Since GoranGrooves owns the copyright to everything it ever produced and made compatible with BeatBuddy (including the Default Content for BeatBuddy), Singular Sound had nothing to merge with their main website.

In light of sabotage revelations and the fact that GoranGrooves owns the biggest catalog of content for BeatBuddy, there was no reason for us to capitulate. The trust was permanently broken, and as of June 2024, GoranGrooves and Singular Sound are no longer affiliated.

Now you know.

The New Home Of The BeatBuddy Premium Library

Everything that was once available in the old BeatBuddy Premium Library is now exclusively available in GoranGrooves’ Premium Library for BeatBuddy, along with Handy Drums, some of the best-sounding VST drum plugins.

At GoranGrooves, we offer a superior customer experience in all aspects, from fantastic products to a lightning-fast website, deep, searchable documentation, a frictionless purchase experience, cleanly organized downloads, and outstanding, knowledgeable customer support.

All of our songs, beat packs, and drumsets for BeatBuddy come with installers that reliably place the content directly into an existing BeatBuddy project on an SD card. We provide a solution for many users who want to load premium content without using the BeatBuddy Manager software.

Our VIPs who purchase the Complete Collection for BeatBuddy have a choice to either install the entire project directly onto a blank SD card or only add the premium content to an existing BeatBuddy project. Dedicated installers offer seamless solutions for both scenarios and are available for both Windows and MacOS systems.

Discounts For Previous Customers Of BeatBuddy Premium Library

If you have previously purchased any of GoranGrooves content at either the Beat Buddy Library or Singular Sound website (including bundles, individual songs, song packs, or drumsets) and wish to upgrade to our current Complete Collection for BeatBuddy bundle, we’ll credit you for what you have previously spent on our content. Limitations apply. See the details here.

by Goran Rista

The Premise: Using BeatBuddy Content Inside a DAW

Since its launch in 2014, the BeatBuddy pedal drum machine has offered live performers a convenient, hand-free solution for realistic-sounding drums at the press of a guitar pedal. The ability to trigger fills on the go while staying in time and transition from one section to another has prompted some users to use BeatBuddy as a recording tool.

For many years, the only option for utilizing BeatBuddy in your recording workflow has been to record its audio output through an audio interface into the DAW. Even if you use high-end recording equipment with fine AD converters, you may find the results unsatisfactory when listening to them in a controlled studio environment. This will be particularly obvious if you compare the original drum samples to those same samples played back through the BeatBuddy and into your DAW, as I have done for years.

Now, there are a couple of much better options for integrating BeatBuddy into your recording workflow while maintaining the original drumset sound quality. Whether you want to use BeatBuddy to record in Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic Pro, Studio One, or one of the other DAWs, the best approach is to combine virtual DAW drum plugins to produce sound and have physical BeatBuddy pedal act solely as a sequencer.

Full disclosure: I was affiliated with Singular Sound for over a decade and played significant roles in BeatBuddy’s inception and success. I have created all original content owned by my brand, GoranGrooves, which has been distributed on the BeatBuddy pedal for nearly a decade. Additionally, I produced all content for the BeatBuddy Premium Library (except for Jazz Drums MIDI loops by Ludwig Afonso). However, since our partnership officially fell apart in May 2024, Singular Sound carry no favors with me. Read more about that here.

This is my non-biased review and impressions of using the BeatBuddy Plugin, Singular Sound’s early attempt at venturing into the world of DAW.

BeatBuddy Plugin Installation and Launch Attempts

As a Cubase Pro user, I need a VST plugin in 64-bit format. To my disappointment and bewilderment, however, they only include a 32-bit version of the VST plugin, even though Steinberg has discontinued the 32-bit VST plugin format for over a decade! Apple also discontinued support for 32-bit plugins several years ago, so providing the BeatBuddy Plugin in VST format only in 32-bit format seems like quite a rookie mistake.

It has been 5 months since I first tried using the BeatBuddy Plugin, and I was only able to do so in Logic Pro (AU plugin format). One would expect that 5 months later, you would be able to use it as a VST inside DAWs like Cubase. Unfortunately, that is not the case on either Mac or Windows; they provide only a 32-bit plugin format.

• When launching Cubase, the plugin immediately gets blacklisted as a 32-bit unsupported format. 
• FL Studio shows the plugin as 64bit and available but fails to load it. Probably because it is not a 64-bit plugin.
• Launching Pro Tools crashes it once it initiates the BeatBuddy Plugin during the launch. Deleting the plugin enables Pro Tools to launch with no problem.

So, it appears that Singular Sound believes they are compiling a 64-bit plugin when, in fact, it is an incompatible 32-bit format.

As things stand now, it seems impossible to use the plugin on an up-to-date Windows system. The plugin is in “beta 0.9” and has been there for several months.

So, if you are “lucky” to be using an outdated 32-bit system with an outdated DAW that can load 32-bit plugins, you may be able to use it.

For anyone with a Mac and Logic Pro DAW: you can take it for a spin.

What Is BeatBuddy Plugin and What Does It Do?

If you are familiar with BeatBuddy, a pedal drum machine that plays MIDI loops through virtual drumsets, triggers fills, and moves between sections with a press of the pedal, you would expect the BeatBuddy Plugin to perform the same or similar operations.

However, that is not the case. The BeatBuddy Plugin would be more appropriately named DRM Player or BeatBuddy Drumset Player. It is essentially a virtual sound module. It does not have a sequencer or any of the functions you usually think of when thinking of the BeatBuddy, the physical unit. It also does not contain MIDI or sampled drumsets. BeatBuddy Plugin is not a replacement for the BeatBuddy pedal drum machine.

The BeatBuddy Plugin can load existing DRM files (BeatBuddy drumsets) on your computer, acting as a sound-generating module through which you can play MIDI loops from your MIDI/ instrument track.

Considering that this is the very first edition of the plugin, it is possible that BeatBuddy’s sequencer features may be integrated at a later date. You have to start somewhere, and in my opinion, it is better to start simple and small, growing from there, than undertake overwhelmingly optimistic projects that never end up being made. Singular Sound and those following it over the years know that all too well.

I Used The BeatBuddy Plugin- Here’s Why

Last summer, while in Europe, away from my recording studio, I needed to create demos for the updated content I was relaunching in the new BeatBuddy Premium Library. I had access to a BeatBuddy pedal and a recording interface, but one of the TRS cables was crap, and it emitted unacceptable noise. This was on top of BeatBuddy’s inherited sound quality output limitations. After being bummed for a short while, I remembered that Singular Sound launched a beta version of the BeatBuddy Plugin. “Perhaps I could use that to record demos of the updated BeatBuddy drumsets!” I thought to myself, excited.

BeatBuddy Plugin- First Impressions

I had to use the AU format inside Logic Pro, which I was fortunate to have, even though I am not too familiar with it. That’s the only plugin format of the BeatBuddy Plugin able to load with no problem, and its GUI popped up.

Ha! Nice! The GUI was large, clean, and beautifully designed. We are off to a good start.

How To Use BeatBuddy Plugin

To use it in your DAW, you must first create a MIDI or instrument track (depending on your DAW) and route it to the BeatBuddy Plugin loaded within your DAW’s session. Whatever drum grooves you program on the MIDI/ Instrument track or MIDI loops you place on it will play through the BeatBuddy Plugin. The sound that the plugin outputs will depend on what DRM drumset is loaded within the plugin.

You must have at least one DRM drumset on your computer for the plugin to be able to produce a sound.

Here is how to load drum/ VI plugins inside all DAWs.

Who Is The BeatBuddy Plugin For, and Why Use It?

If you already own a BeatBuddy pedal drum machine or are planning on getting one, AND if you are likely to do any sort of recording with your BeatBuddy, AND you care about the sound quality, then this plugin is an absolute must-have. This is assuming you can actually load it inside your DAW.

However, if you are a DAW user who doesn’t own the BeatBuddy pedal and is looking solely for virtual drum plugins, it would be silly to even consider this plugin. There are far better alternatives for such needs.

Here is why this plugin is an excellent tool for BeatBuddy users looking to record.

BeatBuddy is a practical little device for live performances. But here is the thing about performing live: conditions are never ideal. Far from them! There are acoustical issues, environmental circumstances, and questionable attention of anyone attending, and usually, live performances are fleeting moments, gone with the wind. So, there is a lot of room for imperfections and forgiveness regarding sound quality.

That is not the case when it comes to studio recording, when everything is documented for the ages.

Let’s look at the journey an audio sample makes through BeatBuddy.

A Drum Sample’s Journey Through BeatBuddy

BeatBuddy Plugin Features

Instrument Volume Faders With Signal Meters

In addition to straight-up triggering the sounds from DRM sample libraries, users can adjust the levels of individual drum components contained in any given DRM drumset. However, remember that this is solely for playback purposes, and those adjustments will not affect the integrity of the DRM file (for better or worse). If you wish to adjust the levels of instruments in your BeatBuddy drumset for use on the actual BeatBuddy pedal, you must use the BeatBuddy Manager or BB Manager Online software.

A very neat detail is that the plugin channels automatically populate based on used notes in the loaded DRM file. So, if your DRM drumset has only kick, snare, and closed hats, you’ll only see three faders for those instruments. Some instruments like hi-hat may contain several notes (closed, open, foot), and the plugin will display a fader for each of these articulations.

More complex drumsets that utilize many notes will result in numerous faders. However, there is a slider allowing you to scroll across the faders, and unless the loaded drumset is entirely out of whack with its instrument balances, you won’t need to adjust it much. You can load the plugin, close the GUI, and focus on your loops.

The signal meters will move whenever an instrument generates sound, providing at-glance confirmation that things are working okay.

Mute and Solo Buttons

You can also mute or solo individual components, which can be very useful when focusing on particular parts of complex rhythms.

Audition Buttons

Audition buttons below channel signal meters allow you to audition each instrument separately. Every time the button is pressed, it plays the instrument at the same velocity but triggers a different sample from the available samples in the instrument.

Resizable GUI

While the plugin does not have a zoom factor enabling you to make it smaller or larger, it does have the ability to stretch the plugin to see more channels.

BeatBuddy Plugin vs. BeatBuddy: Sound Quality Comparison

Let us listen to the sound difference between recording an output of BeatBuddy to using the identical DRM drumset directly inside a DAW. We’ll compare both to the original samples.

For the test, I am using high-quality professional mic pres and converters to record the input of the BeatBuddy, which will likely yield better results than what most BeatBuddy users will get in their entry-level recording interfaces.

Mic Pres: Focusrite ISA828

A/D Converters: Lynx Aurora-N

Procedure: I used a single sample from 4 instruments: kick, snare, bata drum, and pendereta. The original samples were mixed and normalized to 0db digital and saved in 32-bit floating point. The original samples were then dithered with noise shaping and saved to 16-bit wav, which is what was used to create DRM test drumset. Every time a note is played, a single sample is triggered repeatedly.

The BeatBuddy output volume settings was set to 100% and the input gain adjusted on the mix preamp to avoid clipping.

I created 1 bar of MIDI events in Cubase, which were triggering BeatBuddy instruments, and BeatBuddy’s output was simultaneously recorded into Cubase. The first recording was conducted by sending MIDI notes to BeatBuddy at their highest velocity, 127, resulting in BeatBuddy producing output at 0db on the digital scale.

The second recording was done by sending MIDI notes at a velocity of 64, which resulted in an output signal of approximately -5.5db on a digital scale. Everything was recorded in 24bit, normalized to 0db, and saved in 32-bit floating point so that accurate comparisons can be made and recording integrity remains 100% accurate to the original.

How to listen: Play a single instrument’s sample repeatedly, then another version of the instrument, back to back. Pay attention to the top end of the audio spectrum and the ambiance. Listen in a controlled environment on a good-quality sound system or headphones.

Findings: Audible differences will vary depending on the source material and the velocity at which an instrument is played. BeatBuddy most certainly alters the sound of everything it outputs to various degrees. The lower the MIDI velocity, the more attenuation BeatBuddy needs to apply to a sample, and the more pronounced the changes become.

Ideally, when a note is played at a velocity of 64, the resulting audio output, once normalized (adjusted for the volume difference), should be 100% identical to that of a sample that was triggered at a velocity of 127 (minus the noise floor that gets raised by 6db). That is certainly not the case with the BeatBuddy pedal. Sound degradation becomes more pronounced and obvious the more the samples are attenuated (notes played at lower velocities).

There is a loss in the top end of the frequency range and a loss of ambient information. This is more prevalent when an entire drumset is used, and this loss becomes cumulative, resulting in a less realistic-sounding virtual drumset.

On the other hand, the BeatBuddy Plugin seems to keep the original sound quality intact. There is a difference in audio quality between the pedal and the plugin, and that is most noticeable in samples with short decay with ambiance, such as the snare and kick.

Conclusion: The BeatBuddy pedal audibly deteriorates the sound of the DRM sample libraries it plays, while the plugin preserves the quality of the original WAV samples.

How To Use The BeatBuddy Plugin In Conjunction With The Physical BeatBuddy Pedal

If you already have a BeatBuddy and wish to use it for recording along with the BeatBuddy Plugin, here is how to do it.

The physical BeatBuddy unit will act solely as a sequencer, and you will use the BeatBuddy plugin as a virtual drumset module.

The exact procedure for setting a track to record BeatBuddy’s MIDI data into a DAW will depend on the particular DAW you are using, so you should consult their documentation if you are not already familiar. We’ll cover the overall principle here.

1. Connect your BeatBuddy’s MIDI output, using the dedicated MIDI splitter cable, to the MIDI input of your computer’s audio/MIDI interface, as seen in the image above.
2. Create a new MIDI track in your DAW. Set it to channel 10, and select your physical audio/MIDI interface as the track’s MIDI input. Set the track’s time format to “musical” instead of “linear”, if the option is available.
3. Set the DAW’s tempo to match that of the BeatBuddy song you will be recording, or vice-versa.
4. Load the BeatBuddy plugin inside your DAW and connect it to the output of the MIDI track you previously created so that everything on your MIDI track will play through it.
5. Inside the BeatBuddy Plugin, load one of the DRM drumsets you have on your computer.
6. Enable recording on your MIDI track, press record, start your selected song on the BeatBuddy, and then trigger fills and transitions using the pedal. As the BeatBuddy pedal is sending MIDI data into your DAW, it will trigger the sounds inside the plugin and you should be able to hear them.
7. Once you perform the entire song, stop the BeatBuddy, then stop recording in your DAW. 

Now that the MIDI data is recorded, you can shift the entire MIDI event to align it with the grid in your DAW. That way, you can make edits to the MIDI performance. 

As the track is in the “musical” mode, the recorded drum performance will follow if you change the tempo in your DAW.

You could get more fancy and run MIDI out from your DAW into BB to send a CC command to start playback when you press record in your DAW if you want to keep everything in sync from the start, but it is unnecessary. A simple nudge after the fact will do the job.

BeatBuddy Plugin compared to other Drum Plugins?

Well, at this point, comparing the BeatBuddy Plugin to pretty much any virtual drum plugin out there would be unfair. It feels to me that it would be akin to comparing apples to oranges. This is a really bare-bones drum plugin player and serves a very limited purpose for a niche BeatBuddy user base. As such, it is kind of in a category for itself.

However, should Singular Sound decide to market them apples as oranges, I’ll gladly make an apple puree of them.

BeatBuddy Plugin’s Limitations

The most significant inherited limitation of the BeatBuddy Plugin format is that it relies on a severely limited DRM sample library format. Not only is the DRM file currently limited to 100MB, but its functions are very limited in scope. Let us remember that the DRM library format was created for the physical BeatBuddy pedal, so the entire architecture for the BeatBuddy will need to change for this format to be more encompassing.

Due to its size, DRM libraries are 16-bit and strictly limited in dynamic layers and round-robin groups (16 samples per instrument), which is a far cry from what most virtual sample libraries available today offer.

The plugin also lacks some elementary functions, such as drum mapping and multiple outputs.

The plugin can simply trigger one-shot samples and mute them with regular fade-outs. 

Advanced features, such as variable hats (found in Handy Drums) and any advanced algorithms needed for professional use, would be a fantasy at this point.

Available Platforms and Formats

The BeatBuddy Plugin is currently available in beta v0.9 for Windows and MacOS.

Plugin formats are 32-bit VST3, AAX, and AU.

However, as mentioned above, the only format that could load was the AU inside Logic Pro on my M2 Mac Mini.

Goran Rista’s Final Verdict

The BeatBuddy Plugin is a welcomed addition to the BeatBuddy ecosystem. If you own a BeatBuddy and record yourself using a DAW, this plugin should be part of your setup.

It has a clean, modern, beautiful, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-use GUI, and it allows you to truly hear the samples contained in the DRM sample libraries you have on your computer.

The plugin is still in beta and can be downloaded for free from the Singular Sound forum, so there is no reason not to try it out.

According to Singular Sound, the plugin will remain available for free even when released, but in the future, if you wish to change the drumsets, you’ll need to pay for that functionality.

I wish this plugin had been available when I created demos for the BeatBuddy Premium Library over the years. It would have made a very positive audible difference. Going forward, I will certainly utilize it whenever I create demos for BeatBuddy content and purchase the option once it is available for sale.

What is concerning, however, is that the plugin is still in beta as of writing this review, some 7 months after its launch in June 2024. It has been sitting as v0.9 for the last 6 months and is not usable on any current VST-supporting DAW, either Windows or Mac. Let us hope that this is not yet another one of Singular Sound’s software ventures that never gets adequately completed.

Another problematic aspect is that the plugin requires an internet connection to work. I received a “user not authenticated” message for several minutes when I tried to use it. A plugin’s functionality should not depend on the internet connection or the feasibility of the server it is trying to reach. The most Internet it should rely on is for authorizing the software the first time.

BeatBuddy Plugin Alternatives: HANDY DRUMS

If you are not a BeatBuddy user or are a BeatBuddy user looking for higher audio quality and powerful yet easy-to-use features in drum plugins, you should check out our award-winning Handy Drums plugins.

All DRM drumsets found in Default Content for BeatBuddy were produced and owned by GoranGrooves. Most are also available as Handy Drums, which have more extensive sample libraries, 24-bit depth, more dynamic levels, and round-robin groups.

Advanced features, like GoranGrooves’ variable hats, bring unparalleled drum realism to your DAW.

The integrated MIDI Loop Browser allows you to audition any MIDI file directly inside them and then drag them into your DAW session. This includes MIDI loops used in BeatBuddy songs.

Visit any Handy Drums product page to learn about all the features and get a free trial to experience them for yourself.