User Guide

recorded with and

without the snare present, while there is a range of different hihat hits. Some kits

do not have recordings of certain hits - for example, side-stick is missing on some

snares, while some kicks do not have an individual hit for ‘kick with snare’. On

these occasions, an intelligent substitution method is used, where a suitable hit

is used for the missing one. Please see the Reference section for a summary of

substitutions.

There is a handy preview function for each Kit-Piece in the library: hold

down the [SHIFT] key and click on any Kit-Piece in order to hear a

simple preview (a typical ‘hit’ is used, at the highest velocity).

Ready to play!

When you are done with loading and modifying the drumkit, you are

ready to start playing! You can play the plugin live via MIDI input (for

example via a MIDI keyboard, or an electronic drum input device such as

Roland’s V-Drums), or program a drum sequence using your sequencer’s editing

tools, for example the piano-roll (also known as the key editor in Cubase, and the

matrix editor in Logic). Some sequencers have editors which are more geared

towards drum parts (Cubase’s drum edit and Logic’s hyper edit). As mentioned

above, each Kit-Piece contains a number of ‘hits’. You can view which hits are

assigned to which keys by initiating the Hit Options panel, brought up by clicking

the icon.

It is recommended that you spend a little time at this point in getting acquainted

with how BFD sounds and how it reacts to velocity. If you really don’t feel like pro-

gramming or recording a drum sequence at this stage, then you can also drag/

import one of the supplied MIDI ﬁles (located in the BFD/Grooves folder) into the

arrange page of your sequencer, or brieﬂy skip forward to the Groove Librarian tuto-

rial, which shows how BFD can function as a drummer, as well as a drum sound

module.

Before we continue the tour of BFD by looking at the mixer section, it may

be a good idea to know how to save the drumkit combination you built earlier. To

do this, click the save kit combo icon (located underneath the kit display window),

point it to a location on your hard drive and provide a ﬁlename.