Singular Sound
Singular Sound builds gear for players who perform without a band behind them. The company began with the BeatBuddy, funded on Kickstarter in 2014, which was the first drum machine designed to be operated entirely by foot while both hands stayed on the instrument. A tap drops in a fill, a hold moves the arrangement to the next section, a double tap ends the song. That inversion, where the drums follow the player rather than the player following a click, is the idea the whole company is built on. The range has grown outward from there rather than sideways. The BeatBuddy 2 and BeatBuddy Mini 2 cover the drum pedal at two levels of depth. The Aeros Loop Studio and its Gold Edition put a 4.3 inch colour touchscreen on a looper, so loops are visible as waveforms instead of tracked by ear. The MIDI Maestro adds a screen above every footswitch, the SuperSwitch adds whisper-quiet assignable control, and the Cabli manages the cabling that ties it together. Everything syncs over MIDI, which is why solo performers and worship musicians rarely stop at one.