User Guide

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automatically. This can be over-ridden with the -2 Octave Numbering toggle in the
Options panel.
Now that you are aware of all this, try triggering some Grooves and Fills with your
MIDI keyboard! If the Auto Groove Repeat option is still checked for any of the two
Banks, any Groove in that Bank will loop as long as you hold the key down, or
until you press another key.
It is also possible to use BFD as an auto-accompaniment module by activating
certain options. For more details on this, please refer to the section below, entitled
“Different ways of playing Grooves…”
Using Bundles…
Drag one of the Bundles from the Groove Browser onto Bank A. When you do this,
you will see that the new Bundle fills all slots in the Bank, overwriting any previous
ones.
You will notice that, in the Browsers, each Bundle can be ‘expanded’ by clicking
on the icon next to its name. The new names which appear are the individual
Grooves or Fills inside the Bundle. You can drag individual Grooves or Fills onto
each of the twelve ‘slots’ in each Bank in order to compile your own Bundles. You
can also double-click on any slot in a Bank in order to bring up a standard file
browser to manually locate and load a MIDI Groove, or a multiple selection (when
you import multiple Grooves via the file browser, they will be placed sequentially
on the slots, starting from the one on which you double-clicked).
There is a simple system for re-ordering Bundles in BFD. Hold down the [SHIFT]
key and click and drag a Groove or Fill from one slot to another. If you drag the
Groove/Fill onto a slot which is already filled, it swaps the contents of the two
slots. If the destination slot is empty, the Groove is copied there.
When you have finished compiling your Bundle, you can save it. Simply click on
the button underneath the Bank you wish to save as a Bundle, and specify a
location and filename. If you save it into the BFD/Grooves or BFD/Fills folder,
it will instantly appear in the respective browser. You can also clear any Bank by
clicking the icon underneath it.