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USING BFD IN YOUR SEQUENCER OR HOST If you are familiar with using plugin instruments with your chosen sequencer or host, you can skip the following tutorials, and go straight to the next chapter, “Using BFD”. Below are guides to using BFD in the most popular sequencing hosts. BFD will also work perfectly well in other hosts which support the VST, DXi and AudioUnit plugin formats, and those which support ReWire. Using BFD in Steinberg Cubase SX and Cubase VST As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have three new plugins available to you: BFD Stereo, BFD Groups, and BFD All. To use BFD, please do the following after launching Cubase: • Bring up the VST Instruments panel. • Click on an instrument slot and choose one of the BFD plugins. • Depending on which plugin you choose, you will have a number of channels added to the mixer. • Assign a track on the Project Window to BFD. Using BFD in Emagic Logic Audio As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have three new plugins (on Windows, they are VST plugins, and on OSX, they are AudioUnits) available to you: BFD Stereo, BFD Groups, and BFD All. During the first launch of Logic after installing BFD, it should detect the plugins, after which they will be available in the plugins list. To use BFD, please do the following after launching Logic: • Bring up the Audio Environment (the mixer). • Find an unused Audio Instrument channel (or create one if there are none available - see your Logic documentation if you are unsure of how to do this) and click-hold on the instrument plugin slot (just above the output slot). • The Master output version of BFD (BFD Stereo) can be found in Stereo/VST (on OSX, the location is Stereo/AudioUnits/FXpansion), while the multichannel versions (BFD Groups and BFD All) can be found in Multi Channel/ VST (on OSX, MultiChannel/AudioUnits/FXpansion). • Create a track in Logic’s Arrange window, corresponding to the Audio Instrument object on which you inserted BFD. You can now operate BFD from this track. 11
• If you want to access the various multiple outputs if you load a multi-channel version of the plugin, create some Aux objects if you have not done so already, and assign BFD to them by click-holding on their input slots and choosing Instrument n, where n is the number of the Instrument object on which you inserted BFD, and selecting the required output. The output configuration in BFD All is different in Logic, because it has a limitation of 16 VST/AudioUnit outputs. To get around this limitation (BFD All has 17 outputs), BFD outputs Cymbals 2 and 3 on the same direct output channel. The BFD All plugin automatically detects if Logic is the host, and adjusts the output configuration accordingly. • If an Aux channel has not been opened and assigned for a particular output, that output is routed automatically to the master instrument output. Therefore, if you have not opened an Aux channel and assigned it to the PZM bus output, for example, it will still be played through the instrument channel for BFD, assuming the PZM fader is not turned all the way down. Using BFD in Digidesign Pro Tools As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have a new RTAS plugin available to you: BFD Stereo. At this time, Pro Tools does not support multiple outputs from instrument plugins. The term ‘multi-channel plugins’ in Pro Tools refers to stereo-output plugins. If you need to use multiple output versions of BFD, please see the section below entitled “Using BFD with ReWire”. To use BFD, please do the following after launching Pro Tools: • Add a new Audio Track or Aux channel using the File/New Track menu item. • Create a new MIDI track. • On the mixer view, click an insert button on the Audio channel you just inserted, and select BFD (Stereo) from the multi-channel RTAS plug-in/Other menu item. • The MIDI track you created will also appear on the mixer: select BFD as the output port for this track. Using BFD in MOTU Digital Performer 4 As long as the installation went smoothly, you should now have three new Audio- Unit plugins available to you: BFD Stereo, BFD Groups, and BFD All (in fact, in DP4, there will be six plugins - since there is a stereo and mono version for each). 12
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Page 18 and 19: In order to make sure all Kit-Piece
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Page 24 and 25: Part Three: INTRODUCING THE GROOVE
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Page 38 and 39: MIXER SECTION A note on the control
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Page 42 and 43: GROOVE LIBRARIAN To open the Groove
Page 44 and 45: Auditioning Grooves Grooves or Fill
Page 46 and 47: HUMANIZATION FUNCTIONS • QUANTIZA
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Page 50 and 51: • Next Bar: This mode works in a
Page 52 and 53: AUTO GROOVE REPEAT BUTTONS The two
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Page 60 and 61: LOADING AND SAVING PRESETS BFD has
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MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Bounce Swit
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DRUM RECORDING NOTES BFD’s high-q
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BFD’s LIBRARY OF GROOVES Most of
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