User Guide

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1. The Kit-Piece area
• Kit-Piece labels:
The name labels for each Kit-Piece have a handy pre-
view functionality. Clicking on the name previews the
sound with the left to right position mapping to
increased velocity.
• Solo and Mute buttons:
These lit buttons allow you to solo or mute any Kit-
Piece(s). When one or more parts are soloed, the
Mute buttons light up for all non-soloed parts, giving
an easily-visible indication of the mute/solo status. If a
muted part is soloed, when the Solo button is deacti-
vated, the muted status will return.
• Small indicator lights:
The indicator lights beneath the Solo buttons show the load status of each Kit-
Piece 'slot'. A red light indicates that there is no Kit-Piece loaded, an orange light
shows that the samples for that Kit-Piece are being queued up for loading. A yel-
low light indicates that it is in the process of loading, and the light turns green
when a Kit-Piece has successfully been loaded.
Additionally, there is also a blue status for the high, medium and floor tom indicator
lights. This is to show that a substitution has occurred. Some of BFD's kits have
only two toms, because the original kit did not have either a mid or high tom. In
these cases, one of the other toms in the kit is substituted for the missing one. You
can still independently mix the substituted tom: in other words, you can alter the
tuning, panning and levels without affecting the original. To preserve a realistic
three-tom set, it is advisable to retune the substituted tom.
The indicator lights under the Mute buttons light up when any hits in each Kit-Piece
are triggered via MIDI (or via the Groove Librarian).