User manual FXPANSION BFD E

[. . . ] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Credits WHAT IS BFD?The BFD concept Multiple microphone positions Hyper-realistic kits Easy compilation of new kits Flexible play modes: introducing the Groove Librarian Endless variety of sound and feel Potential uses for BFD A note about the manual Technical Support and Updates INSTALLATION AND GETTING STARTED System Requirements Installation Using BFD in Your Sequencer or Host Using BFD in Steinberg Cubase SX and Cubase VST Using BFD in Emagic Logic Audio Using BFD in Digidesign Pro Tools Using BFD in MOTU Digital Performer 4 Using BFD in Image-Line FL Studio Using BFD in Sonic Foundry Acid 4. 0 Using BFD in Cakewalk Project 5 Using BFD in Cakewalk Sonar Using BFD with ReWire USING BFD Part One: FIRST STEPS. . . Part Three: INTRODUCING THE GROOVE LIBRARIAN. . . Part Four : USING YOUR HOST'S MIXING CAPABILITIES 3 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 9 9 9 11 11 11 12 12 13 14 14 14 15 16 16 20 23 30 1 REFERENCE Introduction To BFD's Interface Loading Kits and Kit-Pieces Kit Display Mixer Section Groove Librarian Humanization Functions Quantization Panel Humanization Panels Play Options Panel Auto Groove Repeat Buttons Options Panel Hit Options Panel Tempo Display Loading and Saving Presets Other File Types Used in BFD Miscellaneous Functions Drum Recording Notes BFD's Library of Grooves APPENDIX Host-specific issues Troubleshooting 32 32 32 36 37 41 45 45 46 48 51 53 56 58 59 60 61 63 65 66 66 66 2 INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing FXpansion's BFD! [. . . ] · BFD Groups: Stereo Groups version. This version outputs each stereo microphone group as an independent stereo output. Therefore, output pair 1-2 is the Direct Master bus, 3-4 is the Overhead bus, 5-6 is the Room bus and 7-8 is the PZM bus. The Master output fader affects the volume of all buses in a relative manner. This is the same as BFD Groups but, instead of a stereo mix of the Direct signals, each individual Kit-Piece has its own output. Therefore, kick in, kick out, snare bottom, snare top, hihat, low, medium and high toms, and cymbals 1-3 each have an independent output, starting at output 7. The Master output fader affects the volume of all buses in a relative manner. If you are using Logic Audio, please see the Logic Quickstart guide, as the BFD All plugin works slightly differently when it detects Logic as the host. So far, you have been working with the Master output version, which mixes all signals together. This version is obviously very limited if you want to fully utilize your sequencer's multi-output mixing capabilities, if it has them, which are vital for processing each part of the drumkit with unique EQ, dynamics and effects settings in real time. Save your kit changes if you have made any modifications you would like to use again, and load the BFD All plugin in place of the BFD Stereo you have been using, and reload a kit. This version of the BFD plugin offers the most versatility over the final mix. Please refer to the Host-specific Quickstarts if you don't know how to use your host's multi-output facilities, or if you are not sure if it supports them. You will see that you now have three stereo pairs (the ambient buses) and eleven mono outputs available to you. When using a multiple output configuration, BFD is operated in exactly the same way, except that each Direct Kit-Piece is 30 routed individually into the host's mixer, according to the rules shown above. Therefore, if you are not getting any sound, or if you are only hearing certain parts of the kit, it may be necessary to `enable' the additional outputs in your host: for example, in Logic Audio you need to create Aux channels and point them to one of BFD's multiple outputs. 31 REFERENCE INTRODUCTION TO BFD's INTERFACE All of BFD's knobs, faders and dynamics controls are adjusted by clicking the control and dragging vertically. They can also be adjusted by moving the mouse pointer over the control and scrolling your mouse-wheel, if your mouse has one. LOADING KITS AND KIT-PIECES Click the drumkit panel icons (the column of icons on the left side of the plugin window) in order to bring up their respective panels. These are used for loading either a full kit, or for compiling one from the components, or `Kit-Pieces' of the various included kits, or a number of extra drums and cymbals which are not part of any one particular kit. Exit each panel without making any changes by clicking its icon again, or by clicking the icon in the top-right corner, or bring up a new panel instead by clicking another panel icon. 32 Kit Selector panel Clicking on this icon brings up the Kit Selector panel. Here, you can load one of the supplied full drumkits. Moving the mouse over each kit brings up information about the kit on the right of the panel. You can also navigate around the kits with the arrow/PageUp/PageDn keys on your computer keyboard. [. . . ] Clicks and pops are usually a result of interruptions to the computer, caused by conflicting IRQs and substandard motherboards (such as those with a VIA chipset). These symptoms are also very common when using very low latencies on a computer which cannot handle them. Often, you may not get clicks and pops when working on small projects; however, the symptoms can manifest themselves when using many tracks and plugins, or some resource-hungry plugins. BFD makes big demands on the disk subsystem (that is, the hard drive and the controller and routing on the motherboard used to deliver the data to the operating system). [. . . ]