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If you click on one of the Note Filter buttons while holding down the [SHIFT] key,<br />
the state of all the Bank’s Note Filters is inverted relative to the one on which you<br />
click. If you [CTRL]-click a note filter, the filter settings for that filter are inverted<br />
between Bank A and Bank B.<br />
The button on the extreme-right of each row is the Half-Time button, which<br />
makes that Bank’s Grooves play in half-time.<br />
Creating your own Grooves and Fills<br />
BFD’s Grooves and Fills use the standard MIDI file format. This makes it<br />
incredibly easy to create and import your own Grooves. Please follow these<br />
guidelines if you would like to create your own Grooves.<br />
• You can use any MIDI sequencer which allows the export of MIDI files.<br />
• Load BFD into the sequencer and program or record the sequences you want to<br />
convert into Grooves.<br />
• You can also import any commercial or freeware MIDI files you have, using<br />
the import function in your sequencer (some sequencers also allow dragging<br />
MIDI files from the operating system file browsers right into the arrange page).<br />
Make sure that the notes in the MIDI files correspond properly with BFD’s key<br />
assignments: you may need to do some editing of the MIDI data in order to<br />
achieve this.<br />
• Grooves can be of any length, although it is recommended to keep them to<br />
bar-length multiples. Please also remember that, in general, each Groove must<br />
be written for any particular time signature. If presented with a Groove which is<br />
intended for a different time signature than the current one, it will do one of two<br />
things. If the Groove's time signature has more beats in the bar than the current<br />
time signature, then the notes within the extra beats are cut off. If the Groove's<br />
time signature contains less beats in the bar than the current time signature,<br />
then the Groove will be repeated until the end of the bar.<br />
• When you have finished creating your Grooves, export them to standard MIDI<br />
format. BFD supports both Type 0 and Type 1 MIDI files.<br />
• It is recommended to organize your Grooves into subfolders within the BFD/<br />
Grooves or BFD/Fills folders for convenience.<br />
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