Mackie Thump Connect 2 vs Backbeat

The Thump Connect 2™ app for the Mackie ThumpV4, Thump GO™ and ThumpXT loudspeakers allows wireless control over everything from channel levels, speaker modes, music ducking, speaker linking, and more. Haven't purchased a Thump loudspeaker but want to try the app? The Thump Connect 2 app allows you to explore every feature and even emulate a connected ThumpV4, Thump GO or ThumpXT in Demo Mode. CONTROL EVERYTHING • All input and master output levels • Application-specific speaker modes • Music Ducking mode • Feedback Eliminator • Indoor / Outdoor modes • Auto Connect and Auto Link options • Monitor levels with high-resolution metering for channels and output SPEAKER LINKING • Wirelessly link 2 ThumpV4, Thump GO or 2 ThumpXT speakers together for music streaming applications plus complete control over the entire system • Up to 100 meters of range between linked speakers • Stereo or dual zone linking modes Thump Connect 2 requires ThumpV4, Thump GO or ThumpXT loudspeakers for operation.

Most practice apps speak in chords and scales. Drummers count. Backbeat starts where drum practice actually starts: a rudiment, a tempo you can hold today, and a tempo you're chasing. It keeps the numbers, writes what you play as real notation, and runs the click while you do it. WRITTEN AS REAL NOTATION Tap hits into the grid and the staff writes itself. Hands stems-up, feet stems-down, ghost notes in parentheses, accents marked, flams and drags and diddles drawn the way you'd write them out by hand. Kick, snare, hi-hat, ride, crash, toms, cowbell and more across fourteen voices, on straight or triplet grids from two to thirty-two steps a bar. RUDIMENTS WITH A TARGET Every rudiment carries its sticking and a target tempo. Log a session and your current BPM moves. The library starts with eight basics and you can add your own. A CLICK THAT PUSHES YOU Quarter, eighth, sixteenth and triplet subdivisions. Accent, click or mute any beat. Tap the tempo when you don't have a number. The Speed Trainer raises the tempo on a schedule you choose and logs how far you got. ROUTINES THAT RUN THEMSELVES Give each block a length and a target tempo. The click follows along, every block logs itself when it ends, and the record fills in while your hands stay on the sticks. Three starter routines are there on day one. GROOVES, GENERATED Describe a feel in your own words and Backbeat renders it as notation you can play, edit and keep. PROOF YOU'RE GETTING FASTER Sessions, minutes, streaks, and a speed curve per rudiment. Not a participation badge; the actual tempo you held, over time. SONG CHARTS Build a chart measure by measure with repeats and counts, then export it as a paginated PDF, or share a single groove as an image for video. BUILT TO BE READ FROM A STAND Dark, high contrast, and large enough to follow at arm's length in a dim room. It follows your phone's appearance. Backbeat is free, made by one drummer, and still being built. If something in the notation looks wrong to you, say so; that's the part I most want to get right.