User Guide

Host Starts Time At 1

This option is provided for sequencers such as Digital Performer, which start their

time numbering at 1 instead of 0, which would lead to Grooves playing at the

wrong time.

Bleed To Primary Direct (BFD All only)

BFD’s multiple-microphone technology enables control over the level of bleed

present in the ﬁnal mix. All bleed appears in the kick (in and out) and snare (top

and bottom) channels. This is in order to capture the resonation of the snare and

kick as each Kit-Piece is struck, as well as the sound of the Kit-Piece recorded

through the kick and snare mics. When using the BFD All version (all outputs),

this bleed is, by default, preserved in the original channel on which it was

recorded.

If you check this option, the bleed will be routed to the Kit-Piece’s own direct mic

channel (in other words, the bleed from the snare and kick channels is summed

and added to the drum’s primary direct mic channel).

There are a couple of special cases:

• For kicks, the bleed from the snare’s top mic is routed to the kick in channel,

and the bleed from the snare bottom mic is routed to the kick out channel.

• For snares, the bleed from the kick in mic is routed to the snare top channel,

and the bleed from the kick out mic is routed to the snare bottom channel.

A decision was made not to include bleed from the other mics, because the

levels were just too low to be useful, and would have demanded too much extra

bandwidth during the disk streaming process.

Preview RAM Audio Only

This option makes BFD play only the initial part of the sounds which are held in

RAM before the disk streaming process begins (corresponds to RAM Cache Size).

In this mode no data is accessed from the disk. It can be useful as a preview

mode while composing, and turned off during mixdown.

Maximum Stream Buffers

BFD keeps recently played audio data in RAM, so that there is less strain on the