User Guide

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• If you want to access the various multiple outputs if you load a multi-channel
version of the plugin, create some Aux objects if you have not done so already,
and assign BFD to them by click-holding on their input slots and choosing
Instrument n, where n is the number of the Instrument object on which you
inserted BFD, and selecting the required output. The output configuration in
BFD All is different in Logic, because it has a limitation of 16 VST/AudioUnit
outputs. To get around this limitation (BFD All has 17 outputs), BFD outputs
Cymbals 2 and 3 on the same direct output channel. The BFD All plugin
automatically detects if Logic is the host, and adjusts the output configuration
accordingly.
• If an Aux channel has not been opened and assigned for a particular output,
that output is routed automatically to the master instrument output. Therefore,
if you have not opened an Aux channel and assigned it to the PZM bus output,
for example, it will still be played through the instrument channel for BFD,
assuming the PZM fader is not turned all the way down.
Using BFD in Digidesign Pro Tools
As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have a new RTAS plu-
gin available to you: BFD Stereo. At this time, Pro Tools does not support multiple
outputs from instrument plugins. The term ‘multi-channel plugins’ in Pro Tools
refers to stereo-output plugins. If you need to use multiple output versions of BFD,
please see the section below entitled “Using BFD with ReWire”.
To use BFD, please do the following after launching Pro Tools:
• Add a new Audio Track or Aux channel using the File/New Track menu item.
• Create a new MIDI track.
• On the mixer view, click an insert button on the Audio channel you just inserted,
and select BFD (Stereo) from the multi-channel RTAS plug-in/Other menu
item.
• The MIDI track you created will also appear on the mixer: select BFD as the
output port for this track.
Using BFD in MOTU Digital Performer 4
As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have three new Audio-
Unit plugins available to you: BFD Stereo, BFD Groups, and BFD All (in fact, in
DP4, there will be six plugins - since there is a stereo and mono version for each).