User Guide

You should always make sure that the drive or partition on which the BFD audio

data resides is defragmented. As long as you defragment the drive before install-

ing the plugin, you should be okay. Also, on Windows platforms, make sure that

the drive is running in DMA mode (check your primary and secondary hard disk

controller settings in Control Panel/Device Manager). Also, try looking at the vari-

ous cache and buffer settings in the Options panel.

You can try the following workarounds to get around hard disk subsystem bottle-

necks:

Install BFD on a separate drive to the operating system and any audio tracks you

may be using. If this is impractical, try using a dedicated partition.

Use an external ﬁrewire or USB 2.0 drive. This is especially useful for laptop/

notebook users, as the internal hard drives on these types of machines are

usually very slow compared to their desktop equivalents (4200 rpm versus 7200

rpm). An external drive should be capable enough to deliver the required amount

of data in time. To give you an idea of the transfer rate required, a particularly

heavy scenario when using BFD would need around 15 MB/sec. This means that

a ﬁrewire or USB 2.0 drive which typically delivers 30 MB/sec would be perfectly

adequate.

• Triggering of grooves isn’t working as expected.

Check the settings in Play Options panel and see that the latch mode and sync

modes are what you need to trigger the grooves how you would like. Refer to the

Play Options reference section to ﬁnd out more about the different triggering and

sync options available. Please also make sure that the Respond to Groove Notes

option is enabled in the Play Options panel.