BFD Help?

[booyah14]

I am finally getting into the whole midi thing and must say that I have had some fun just messing around trying to learn the program. I have read the manual some but it is just not as fun,haha. I was wondering if someone could possibly talk me through a few problems on IM by chance?

A basic rundown is this...

1. Just used the premade beats from the program as a reference in pro tools. I assumed I could then move the midi notes around to fit my song, wrong. So I guess it's simply audio.

2. So then I tried to just pencil it in. However, all of the drum hits are registered when I pencil one in. So what gives?

3. I went to the map, and it shows the notes, however does this relate to a keyboard or to the midi section in pro tools? So how do you know which row matches which drum hit.


Like I said, if anyone wouldn't mind walking me through a few basic problems I would really appreciate the help.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

Sounds like a mapping issue but I don't know Pro Tools very well.

Your best bet is to hop on over to the Fxpansion forum and ask the people that programmed it.

 

[booyah14]

Haha yea that is probably the best bet, just haven't gotten an account set up there, so was hoping to check here first. But I do need to figure this out so will do.

Any suggestions are always welcome though, even if it's just something to try. Thanks for the reply anyways.

 

[ssscientist]

The best way to figure out which drum is mapped to which key is to get a midi keyboard going on the same channel as BFD and test it that way.

If the kick drum is on, for example, C3 or midi note #60 then it logically follows that they would go up from there with the snare being on midi note #61 or #62 (or both), rim shot being on midi note #63 and so on. One drum sound is dedicated to a single key or keys in most midi drum programs.

Midi notes are not tempo-dependent. That means a midi drum pattern will play as well at 50 bpm as it will at 175 bpm. If you've got another program that will export midi files, try making a drum loop and importing it into protools as a test. That may help you more than anything at this point.

As far as your problem with trying to pencil them in and having them all hit at once, it may be a quantize issue or a midi channel issue - try to find the incoming midi channel for the BFD vsti and set that to match protools.