User Guide

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integrated, intuitive preset system, facilitating the ability to save your favourite
mixer configurations and flick through them with ease.
Hyper-realistic kits
As well as the flexibility offered by the multiple microphone positions, BFD's high
quality drum sample library has an unparalleled degree of realism. For each type
of drum type in each kit, there are a number of different styles of 'hits': for example,
the snares offer flams, drags, rims and side-sticks, while the hihats include closed
and half-open tip & shank, open tip and pedal. Each of these 'hits' is sampled at up
to 46 velocity layers, resulting in drum parts of unparalleled detail and expressive-
ness.
Easy compilation of new kits
Ever tried to edit and combine elements of large disk-streamed sample libraries?
You'll know that it isn't exactly the most productive use of creative time in the stu-
dio. To save you this tedious, time-consuming process, BFD allows you to easily
mix and match the kicks, snares, toms, hats and cymbals of the various supplied
kits to create custom kits. All this within seconds, and with just a few mouse-clicks!
You can preview any potential kit changes in real-time and in context, leaving you
free to concentrate on the sound rather than losing your creative flow through
excessive file and sample management operations.
Custom kit creations can be easily saved into a small preset file, so it's easy to cre-
ate a library of drumkits tailored to your requirements, and the small size of these
files makes it simple to share your kits with other users online.
Flexible play modes: introducing the Groove Librarian
In addition to functioning as a single-hit module which can be triggered via the host
sequencer's MIDI engine, BFD also incorporates an extensive library of 'Grooves',
in a number of different styles, feels and time signatures. There is also a compre-
hensive fill library. What makes BFD so powerful is that these 'Grooves' are imple-