User Guide

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When you access the Groove Librarian, you will be presented by a couple of
distinct areas.
• Browsers:
There are two tree-view browsers in BFD’s Groove Librarian, which are used to
select Groove and Fill bundles, located within the BFD/Grooves and BFD/Fills
folders, and the individual Grooves within them. The top ‘tree-level’ is the Bundle
itself. If you expand the tree structure (click on the icon next to the Bundle
name), you will see the individual Grooves which comprise it.
• Banks:
There are three banks, each with twelve ‘slots’, in BFD’s Groove Librarian. These
areas are where you drag Bundles or individual Grooves from the Browsers. It
can also be used in order to compile and save Bundles: There are two banks for
Groove Bundles and one for Fill Bundles.
Each slot in each Bank corresponds to a MIDI key, an indicator for which is dis-
played on the right-hand side of the slot, alongside the name of any Groove which
is loaded into the slot. When a MIDI key within the range of the Groove Librarian’s
key mappings is pressed, the MIDI note value and the Groove name are high-
lighted in red. If you are in Auto Bundle Shuffle mode, the MIDI key highlight will
remain the same, while the actual Groove which is playing will be highlighted
instead.
Grooves can be copied or re-ordered within the Banks by holding down the
[SHIFT] key while dragging a Groove from one slot to another. If the destination
slot is empty, the Groove is copied, whereas if the destination slot contains
another Groove, they are swapped between the slots.
After a Bundle has been compiled in one of the Banks, it can be saved for future
use by clicking the button under each Bank. It is best to save it in the BFD/
Grooves folder, or in BFD/Fills if it is a Fill Bundle, so that it appears in the
Browsers. You can clear the contents of any Bank by clicking the icon beneath
each one..