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BFD Stereo or BFD Groups, and are greyed out when using the BFD All version of the plugin, as the individual mono Direct outputs do not need to be panned. The kick and snare Kit-Pieces each have some special controls for the Direct bus. • Kick In/Out: This control adjusts the blend between the mic placed inside the kick drum, and that outside. If you click the button, the phase of the internal mic is inverted. • Snare Bot/Top: Using this control, the blend between the mics below and above the snare drum can be adjusted. If you click the phase button, the phase of the bottom mic is inverted. 3. Bus mixer area This area allows easy control over the overall mix. The Direct and each individual ambient bus each have their own volume fader here, as well as Solo and Mute buttons. In addition, the ambient mics have two extra controls: • Distance: This parameter allows you to virtually manipulate the distance of each ambient mic set from the drumkit. • Width: This control adjusts the stereo width of each ambient mic bus. It ranges from mono (hard-left) through stereo (centre position) to enhanced stereo (hard-right). Extreme settings of enhanced stereo should be used carefully as they can add an out of phase component to your mix. The Distance and Width parameters for each ambient mic bus are illustrated by a moving set of mics which can be seen in the main Kit Display. 39
The last two controls in this area are as follows: • Master: This is an overall master level control for all of the buses together. In the master output plugin (BFD Stereo) this will control the overall level of the stereo channel. In the multi-channel versions of the plugin (BFD Groups and BFD All), it controls the relative volume of all separate outputs. • Master Dynamics: This is a global control over velocity sensitivity. Its value (ranging from -127 to 127) is added to the velocity of all incoming notes (from either normal MIDI input or from the Groove Librarian), after the individual Kit-Piece dynamic values have been added. note: this is unlabelled on the interface - it is located just above the Master fader. The mixer section contains a preset system, which allows very quick access to different mixer settings. • Save Mixer Preset Brings up a standard file browser in order to save your mixer setups. By default, the BFD/Mixers folder is used. • Load Mixer Preset Brings up a standard file browser, allowing you to load a mixer setup file from any location. • Quick-access Preset Browser If you save your mixer setups into the BFD/Mixers folder, you can use these quick access buttons in order to quickly flick between the various setups stored in the folder. • Reset Mixer Section Resets the mixer section to default settings. 40
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Page 4 and 5: INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing
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Page 10 and 11: INSTALLATION AND GETTING STARTED Sy
Page 12 and 13: USING BFD IN YOUR SEQUENCER OR HOST
Page 14 and 15: At this time, Digital Performer doe
Page 16 and 17: • Insert BFD as a DXi plugin. To
Page 18 and 19: In order to make sure all Kit-Piece
Page 20 and 21: • note: If you save your kit file
Page 22 and 23: The finer points of mixing… BFD a
Page 24 and 25: Part Three: INTRODUCING THE GROOVE
Page 26 and 27: Different ways of playing Grooves
Page 28 and 29: with a wide array of working method
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Page 32 and 33: outed individually into the host’
Page 34 and 35: Kit Selector panel Clicking on this
Page 36 and 37: • Cymbals Each Cymbal Kit-Piece h
Page 38 and 39: MIXER SECTION A note on the control
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
Page 48 and 49: when hitting the drums. This panel
Page 50 and 51: • Next Bar: This mode works in a
Page 52 and 53: AUTO GROOVE REPEAT BUTTONS The two
Page 54 and 55: OPTIONS PANEL This icon activates t
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Page 58 and 59: use a variable hihat controller to
Page 60 and 61: LOADING AND SAVING PRESETS BFD has
Page 62 and 63: MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Bounce Swit
Page 64 and 65: DRUM RECORDING NOTES BFD’s high-q
Page 66 and 67: BFD’s LIBRARY OF GROOVES Most of
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