User Guide

• There is a noticeable delay between pressing a key on my MIDI keyboard

and hearing the sound.

This is a symptom of latency, something which all CPU-based processing suffers

from. Latency can be reduced by using a better soundcard with well-written driv-

ers. Latency also depends upon the speed of your computer processor: even if

your soundcard supports very low latencies (for example RME cards are capable

of going down to 1.5ms, lower than the latency of many hardware synths) it takes

a heavy amount of processing power in order to actually achieve this.

• I’m getting clicks and pops!

First of all, please verify if you are only getting this behaviour with BFD. Clicks and

pops are usually a result of interruptions to the computer, caused by conﬂicting

IRQs and substandard motherboards (such as those with a VIA chipset). These

symptoms are also very common when using very low latencies on a computer

which cannot handle them. Often, you may not get clicks and pops when working

on small projects; however, the symptoms can manifest themselves when using

many tracks and plugins, or some resource-hungry plugins. BFD makes big

demands on the disk subsystem (that is, the hard drive and the controller and

routing on the motherboard used to deliver the data to the operating system). Try

increasing the latency (i.e. the size of the buffers) on your soundcard, and increas-

ing buffer-size settings within your host. Also, try looking at the various cache and

buffer settings in the Options panel.

If this does not ﬁx the problem, please contact our support channels for further

assistance.

• I’m getting dropped notes, loss of sync, or drop-outs.

If you are getting such symptoms, it is likely that your hard disk cannot deliver

data fast enough for BFD! Because of BFD’s disk-streamed multiple microphone

technology, playing back just one drum sound is the equivalent of 11 mono audio

tracks!