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composers who require ‘ready-rolled’ but flexible drum accompaniments in order to facilitate song-writing without interruption to the creative flow, it also provides convenient access to the very highest quality sampled drum sounds for producers without access to a real drumkit or good recording facilities. BFD’s sounds and Grooves are perfectly suited to rock, jazz, funk, hip-hop, blues, drum & bass… in fact, anything that may require a real drumkit. It can be used for anything from auto-accompaniment, traditional song-writing and production, to modern techniques such as creating new drum breaks to use in hip-hop and drum & bass production. A note about the manual We have designed BFD to be as intuitive as possible, to the point where it is possible to fire it up and be up and running within seconds for instant gratification. However, it is recommended that you go through the tutorial chapter (“Using BFD”) which introduces the plugin’s variety of features in a logical and straightforward way, so that you can make sure you understand all the concepts crucial to the way it works. It is also highly useful to be aware of the Appendix, which contains notes on a number of technical issues regarding performance and troubleshooting. We also hope that you don’t find the size of this manual intimidating, as there are several sections (for example, the host-specific Quickstart guides) which you may not need to concern yourself with, depending upon your level of experience. Technical Support and Updates Before contacting our support department, please make sure you have fully read the manual, and in particular, the technical appendix. If, after following the manual’s advice, you still cannot resolve your problem, our support department will be only too happy to help. Our primary technical support channel is our support forum at kvr-vst.com: http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=13 7
This forum is monitored by FXpansion technical support staff, as well as the developers themselves; it is also home to many highly knowledgeable users and answers to your questions can be found quickly at all hours of the day. If, for whatever reason, you are unable to access the forum, or cannot get a satisfactory answer there, feel free to contact us at: support@fxpansion.com Before you contact us, please make sure to read our BFD User FAQ, which includes solutions to many common installation and performance problems: http://www.fxpansion.com/product-bfd-userFAQ.php Please be aware that we are continuously working on updates to BFD and its content, so please be sure to keep checking our website (http://www.fxpansion.com) in order to download updates, new Groove bundles and more! Many thanks, The FXpansion team. 8
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Page 4 and 5: INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing
Page 6 and 7: AKG 451 and Shure SM57. They were r
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
Page 30 and 31: When the graph looks like the one s
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 40 and 41: BFD Stereo or BFD Groups, and are g
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
Page 56 and 57: hard disk. Specifying a lower numbe
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use a variable hihat controller to
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LOADING AND SAVING PRESETS BFD has
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MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS Bounce Swit
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DRUM RECORDING NOTES BFD’s high-q
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BFD’s LIBRARY OF GROOVES Most of
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• There is a noticeable delay bet
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