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WHAT IS BFD?<br />
BFD is a high-quality acoustic drum module. It concentrates on impeccablyrecorded<br />
multi-velocity acoustic drumkits, with some crucial differences to using a<br />
general-purpose sampler with sample-CDs, or using pre-recorded acoustic drum<br />
loops.<br />
The BFD concept:<br />
• Flexible mixing of multiple microphone placements<br />
• Hyper-detailed kits: up to 46 velocity layers and a wide selection of hit<br />
types, all recorded simultaneously through eleven microphones<br />
• Easy compilation of new kits without wrestling with time-consuming<br />
editing and combination of sampler programs, or having to load multiple<br />
whole kits<br />
• A versatile automated drummer in the Groove Librarian<br />
• Endlessly variable sound and feel<br />
All this and more is provided in an intuitive, highly integrated interface, plugged<br />
into the heart of your favourite sequencing environment, via the VSTi, DXi, RTAS,<br />
AudioUnit and ReWire interfaces. A standalone version is also supplied, which<br />
uses the ASIO and CoreAudio protocols. BFD supports Windows and MacOS-X<br />
operating systems. While BFD should work in Windows 98SE and ME environments,<br />
we only recommend and officially support its use in Windows 2000 and<br />
XP.<br />
When designing BFD, we tried to make it easy to use for people who prefer<br />
to write music rather than mess with the inner workings of a plugin, while still<br />
allowing a great deal of control and flexibility for the habitual tweaker.<br />
Multiple microphone positions<br />
Each drum component in BFD is sampled with a number of microphone placements<br />
simultaneously:<br />
Direct: a clean, close-mic’d signal. A variety of microphone types were used for<br />
this, including Sennheiser MD421, Neumann KM81 and M49, ElectroVoice Re20,<br />
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