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in a similar principle: it blends between a mic placed on the top of the snare drum,<br />
and another on the bottom. Like the Kick In/Out, it applies only to the Direct bus.<br />
Each Kit-Piece has a Tune parameter. This changes the pitch for each component<br />
globally, through the Direct and ambient buses. The Solo (yellow) and Mute (red) lit<br />
buttons also affect each Kit-Piece globally. The Pan controls vary the stereo placement<br />
of each Direct signal within the stereo Direct Master bus - therefore, it has<br />
no effect (in fact, it is greyed out) when using the multi-channel BFD All version<br />
of the plugin, where each Direct Kit-Piece has a dedicated mono output into the<br />
sequencer (more on multi-channel capabilities later). You cannot manipulate the<br />
stereo position of Kit-Pieces in the ambient buses, other than by using the Width<br />
parameter.<br />
There is another type of control in the mixer section: the Dyn (Dynamics) controls.<br />
These increase or decrease the velocity of each incoming MIDI note for each particular<br />
Kit-Piece. Velocity is quite distinct from volume. Each drum-hit in BFD is<br />
recorded at a variety of velocities - i.e. the drums were hit with different degrees<br />
of force. Manipulating the Dyn parameter effectively increases or decreases how<br />
hard the drum is hit, by altering the incoming velocities of the notes used to trigger<br />
them. If you turn down the Dyn parameter on the snare Kit-Piece, for example, you<br />
will hear the snare hits get ‘softer’, an effect quite different from turning down the<br />
volume on a high-velocity hit. Try it! There is also a Master Dyn control, situated just<br />
above the Master level fader (it is unlabelled on the user interface). This alters the<br />
velocity of all incoming notes in a relative manner. The small indicator light underneath<br />
the Kit-Piece Mute buttons is a visual indicator of the velocity of incoming<br />
MIDI notes for each Kit-Piece.<br />
The mixer section includes a handy preset system, the controls for which are<br />
located above the main level faders. You can load and save mixer settings (.bfm<br />
files), as well as reset the whole mixer to default settings. If you save your mixer<br />
setups in the BFD/Mixers folder, you can flick through them easily with the<br />
buttons.<br />
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