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Auditioning Grooves Grooves or Fills within any Bank can be auditioned just by clicking on them. The name of the Groove and the MIDI note label will turn red. If you want to audition the Groove while it repeats, turn on the Auto Groove Repeat option for the relevant Bank. Clicking a playing Groove again will stop auditioning it. Playing Bundles from the Keyboard The Grooves and Fills in all three Banks are mapped to the keyboard. The actual names of the keys used are displayed in the Bank slots, next to the name of each Groove. These values change dynamically depending upon the status of the -2 Octave Numbering option in the Options panel. It is highly recommended to turn on the Polyphonic Mode option (in the Play Options panel) when using the Groove Librarian. This mode allows two or more Grooves to play at the same time. Not only is this important for overlaying ‘drumloop’-type Grooves in one Bank with ride and crash patterns from another, but it is also useful for working with the Kit-Piece Note Filters (see below). Please consult the sections below about the Play Options panel and the Auto Groove Repeat buttons, in order to see how the Groove Librarian’s behaviour can be tailored to suit your particular methods of working. Kit-Piece Note Filters / Half-Time button At the top of the Groove Librarian you will notice a row of pink-coloured buttons above the Groove/Fill Banks. These (with one exception, the Half-Time button at the extreme-right of each row - see below) are used to filter out individual Kit- Pieces’ notes from the Grooves playing from the Banks. This function can be used when you only want to play certain parts of each Groove while you jam other parts live. For example you could filter the kick and snare so that only the hihats, toms and cymbals are playing, while you jam in a new kick and snare pattern. This mode is also useful for combining two Groove sets - for instance, you can use the kicks, snares and toms from one Bank and the hihats and cymbals from another. If you are working in this way, please ensure you enable Polyphonic Mode in the Play Options panel. 43
If you click on one of the Note Filter buttons while holding down the [SHIFT] key, the state of all the Bank’s Note Filters is inverted relative to the one on which you click. If you [CTRL]-click a note filter, the filter settings for that filter are inverted between Bank A and Bank B. The button on the extreme-right of each row is the Half-Time button, which makes that Bank’s Grooves play in half-time. Creating your own Grooves and Fills BFD’s Grooves and Fills use the standard MIDI file format. This makes it incredibly easy to create and import your own Grooves. Please follow these guidelines if you would like to create your own Grooves. • You can use any MIDI sequencer which allows the export of MIDI files. • Load BFD into the sequencer and program or record the sequences you want to convert into Grooves. • You can also import any commercial or freeware MIDI files you have, using the import function in your sequencer (some sequencers also allow dragging MIDI files from the operating system file browsers right into the arrange page). Make sure that the notes in the MIDI files correspond properly with BFD’s key assignments: you may need to do some editing of the MIDI data in order to achieve this. • Grooves can be of any length, although it is recommended to keep them to bar-length multiples. Please also remember that, in general, each Groove must be written for any particular time signature. If presented with a Groove which is intended for a different time signature than the current one, it will do one of two things. If the Groove's time signature has more beats in the bar than the current time signature, then the notes within the extra beats are cut off. If the Groove's time signature contains less beats in the bar than the current time signature, then the Groove will be repeated until the end of the bar. • When you have finished creating your Grooves, export them to standard MIDI format. BFD supports both Type 0 and Type 1 MIDI files. • It is recommended to organize your Grooves into subfolders within the BFD/ Grooves or BFD/Fills folders for convenience. 44
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Page 4 and 5: INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing
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Page 8 and 9: composers who require ‘ready-roll
Page 10 and 11: INSTALLATION AND GETTING STARTED Sy
Page 12 and 13: USING BFD IN YOUR SEQUENCER OR HOST
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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
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Page 38 and 39: MIXER SECTION A note on the control
Page 40 and 41: BFD Stereo or BFD Groups, and are g
Page 42 and 43: GROOVE LIBRARIAN To open the Groove
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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