User Guide

Part Three: INTRODUCING THE GROOVE LIBRARIAN…

To initiate the Groove Librarian, start by clicking the pull-down bar at the top of

BFD's interface.

You will see three 'Banks' of Grooves, flanked by a tree-view 'browser' on either

side. The Groove browser on the left is for what we call 'Grooves': essentially MIDI

drumloops. Meanwhile, the right-hand side browser is the Fill browser. Fills are

exactly the same format as Grooves: they are just regarded as 'Fills' for conve-

nience. The Banks are where you drag in Groove 'Bundles' from the browsers:

there are two Banks for Grooves (Bank A and Bank B) and another for Fills.

A Bundle is a group of up to twelve MIDI Grooves, a large range of which are sup-

plied with BFD. There are two distinct types of Bundles: 'Groove Bundles' and 'Fill

Bundles'. There are two general-purpose Groove Bundles and a Fill Bundle

loaded by default into the Banks.

Instant gratification…

Now click on any of the Grooves listed in Bank A. You will notice that the

Groove plays through for its duration, and then stops. Now click the

Auto Groove Repeat A button on the right of the BFD interface. The

Groove will now loop until another is clicked.

Please note that this method is usually for auditioning the Grooves. The Grooves

are mainly intended to be played from the MIDI keyboard (or alternative MIDI input

device). All the three loaded Bundles are mapped to the keyboard: in fact, the keys

used are reflected in the black and white slots in each Bank, which represent the

actual keys on the keyboard. Therefore, the first beat in a Bundle is shown at the

bottom, reflecting how it would appear in your sequencer's piano roll, for example.

The actual keys which correspond to each Bank of Grooves depend on your host -

numbering conventions vary between sequencers. Cubase and Logic start their