I'm trying the trial version, which is really quite crippled, but I *do* like what I'm playing with.
MY workflow is:
Load preset (for some reason, the demo doesn't have 'kits' to load, you have to load a full preset)
Delete preset drum track
Create grooves for certain parts of the song, drag and drop into the drum track.
Easy! It sounds great, and I've no doubt the full version unlocks plenty of kits for me to test (I'm just using the dry rock preset thing on the demo, which has a usable rock sound, though I turn the gain up on the kick).
However, I'm having trouble getting the drum TRACK into Reaper. When I record, it basically records the GROOVE I've selected. I've just spent all that time making the grooves and arranging into a song, why should I have to arrange it again?
So, is there a way of arming reaper and recording the entire track? Or am I better off just completely ignoring the TRACK function, making grooves and recording them all separate?
Is this something the full version would unlock? I've decided that I'm going to go for BFD3 as it seems pretty easy to just use a mouse to click beats together and arrange into a song, but it would be neat if you can just record the whole thing at once, rather than lots of smaller takes. I think, in the manual, it talks about exporting it as audio, but I'd rather keep it as MIDI and plugin so I can tweak sounds in the mix later.
Comments
Grv Off = Groove engine is disabled.
Track = Drum track syncs to the host when you press play inside Reaper.
Palette = Selected groove in the palette listing syncs to the host when you press play inside Reaper.
Are you trying to record the output of BFD3 to the track inside Reaper? If so, you don't need to do that. You can just drag and drop from the groove palette straight into Reapers midi track.
I'm really liking it. It's easy to broadly change the sounds of the drums in the software, but there is so much I won't even look at because I wouldn't have a clue what it was. Lots of growing room.
I suspect there are more suitable kits for hard rock and heavy stuff in the full blown version, so I'm saving up
I'll see if drag and drop works. If so, no worries anywhere the main things I'd want from the full version is saving grooves and more kits. The basic, preset sound of the dry rock kit is already quite good - not metal at all, but functional for me, and actually probably quite good for general rock music.
Blows drummic'a out of the water!
http://bit.ly/CMBFD3
Saving for the full thing now.