User Guide

one. You can still independently mix the substituted tom: in other words, you can

alter the tuning, panning and levels without affecting the original. To preserve a

realistic three-tom set, it is advisable to retune the substituted tom.

The indicator lights under the Mute buttons light up when any hits in each Kit-

Piece are triggered via MIDI (or via the Groove Librarian).

• Trim:

This control allows you to trim the ambient level of each drumkit component,

between +6 and -inf dB. Effectively, it functions as a ‘reverb send’ for the natural

ambience in BFD’s mic buses.

• Tune:

Using this control, the pitch of each drumkit component can be tuned up or down

an octave (+/- 1200 cents). This control acts globally for all mic buses.

• Dyn (Dynamics):

This control scales the velocity sensitivity of each drumkit component. The con-

trol’s value (-127 to 127) is added onto the velocity of each incoming MIDI note for

that particular component.

2. The Direct area

This area of the mixer section controls only the sound of the

Direct Master stereo bus or the Direct mono outputs (in BFD

All), and does not affect the Overhead, Room or PZM mic buses.

Here, each Kit-Piece has two controls (apart from the kick and

the snare: more on those in a moment):

• Trim:

Controls the level of each Kit-Piece between -inf and +6 dB, in

the Direct bus.

• Pan:

Here, you can control the position in the stereo ﬁeld of each

Kit-Piece, in the Direct Master stereo bus. They are only functional when using