User Guide

USING BFD

If you’re not familiar with using plugin instruments in your host, please make sure

to read the Host Quickstart guides in the previous chapter. During the tutorial,

there are references to opening various panels, which should be fairly intuitive.

If you are in any doubt at any stage during the tutorial, please consult the

Reference section later in the manual.

Part One: FIRST STEPS…

When you try to launch BFD as a plugin instrument in your sequencer, you will

notice that there are three different versions of the plugin: BFD Stereo, BFD

Groups and BFD All. Each of these is essentially identical in functionality, with

the crucial difference between them being the output bus conﬁguration. To start

with, load BFD Stereo, which mixes all buses to one stereo output pair.

When the BFD plugin is ﬁrst initiated, it won’t make any sound! Loading a kit

takes a while so it’s only done when you want it done.

To load a drumkit click the Kit Selector button. This brings up a

projected panel showing the various supplied drumkits, along

with useful information about each one, which is displayed

when you move the mouse over any kit.

After you click on a kit in order to load it, you will notice that the

indicator is displayed to the left of the status window. You may also notice that,

gradually, the little red lights, underneath the red (Solo) buttons in the Kit-Piece

area of the mixer section, begin to each turn orange, yellow, then a stable green.

These lights indicate the loading status of each Kit-Piece (i.e. the kick, snare,

hihat, ﬂoor, medium and high toms, and cymbals 1-3). If there is nothing loaded

into a Kit-Piece ‘slot’, the indicator light is red. When a light turns orange, BFD is

queueing up the samples to be loaded, while a yellow light shows that the Kit-

Piece is in the process of being loaded. After a Kit-Piece has ﬁnished loading, its

light will turn green. When the entire kit (i.e. all the Kit-Pieces contained within it)

is fully loaded, the indicator disappears, and all of the kit indicator

lights will have turned green.