User Guide

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If you click on one of the Note Filter buttons while holding down the [SHIFT] key,
the state of all the Bank’s Note Filters is inverted relative to the one on which you
click. If you [CTRL]-click a note filter, the filter settings for that filter are inverted
between Bank A and Bank B.
The button on the extreme-right of each row is the Half-Time button, which
makes that Bank’s Grooves play in half-time.
Creating your own Grooves and Fills
BFD’s Grooves and Fills use the standard MIDI file format. This makes it
incredibly easy to create and import your own Grooves. Please follow these
guidelines if you would like to create your own Grooves.
• You can use any MIDI sequencer which allows the export of MIDI files.
• Load BFD into the sequencer and program or record the sequences you want to
convert into Grooves.
• You can also import any commercial or freeware MIDI files you have, using
the import function in your sequencer (some sequencers also allow dragging
MIDI files from the operating system file browsers right into the arrange page).
Make sure that the notes in the MIDI files correspond properly with BFD’s key
assignments: you may need to do some editing of the MIDI data in order to
achieve this.
• Grooves can be of any length, although it is recommended to keep them to
bar-length multiples. Please also remember that, in general, each Groove must
be written for any particular time signature. If presented with a Groove which is
intended for a different time signature than the current one, it will do one of two
things. If the Groove's time signature has more beats in the bar than the current
time signature, then the notes within the extra beats are cut off. If the Groove's
time signature contains less beats in the bar than the current time signature,
then the Groove will be repeated until the end of the bar.
• When you have finished creating your Grooves, export them to standard MIDI
format. BFD supports both Type 0 and Type 1 MIDI files.
• It is recommended to organize your Grooves into subfolders within the BFD/
Grooves or BFD/Fills folders for convenience.