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without the snare present, while there is a range of different hihat hits. Some kits
do not have recordings of certain hits - for example, side-stick is missing on some
snares, while some kicks do not have an individual hit for ‘kick with snare’. On
these occasions, an intelligent substitution method is used, where a suitable hit
is used for the missing one. Please see the Reference section for a summary of
substitutions.
There is a handy preview function for each Kit-Piece in the library: hold
down the [SHIFT] key and click on any Kit-Piece in order to hear a
simple preview (a typical ‘hit’ is used, at the highest velocity).
Ready to play!
When you are done with loading and modifying the drumkit, you are
ready to start playing! You can play the plugin live via MIDI input (for
example via a MIDI keyboard, or an electronic drum input device such as
Roland’s V-Drums), or program a drum sequence using your sequencer’s editing
tools, for example the piano-roll (also known as the key editor in Cubase, and the
matrix editor in Logic). Some sequencers have editors which are more geared
towards drum parts (Cubase’s drum edit and Logic’s hyper edit). As mentioned
above, each Kit-Piece contains a number of ‘hits’. You can view which hits are
assigned to which keys by initiating the Hit Options panel, brought up by clicking
the icon.
It is recommended that you spend a little time at this point in getting acquainted
with how BFD sounds and how it reacts to velocity. If you really don’t feel like programming
or recording a drum sequence at this stage, then you can also drag/
import one of the supplied MIDI files (located in the BFD/Grooves folder) into the
arrange page of your sequencer, or briefly skip forward to the Groove Librarian tutorial,
which shows how BFD can function as a drummer, as well as a drum sound
module.
Before we continue the tour of BFD by looking at the mixer section, it may
be a good idea to know how to save the drumkit combination you built earlier. To
do this, click the save kit combo icon (located underneath the kit display window),
point it to a location on your hard drive and provide a filename.
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