[ddots-l] Re: BFD nightmare continues

Damon wrote: Phil. Haven't added to the hsc set yet. Still learning that. Also, 
tried loading in a second set of toms, but the way they are mapped, they are so 
far off
from the other toms that it is useless.

Phil replied: you did better than me.  Wasn't able to get a second set of toms 
loaded at all.

Damon wrote: I have to go into the hit options now and tinker with that a bit.

Phil replied: is that where you map out the toms?

Damon wrote: I am going to come up with a custom keyboard
map for myself and when that is done, will try to pass it to you. It will be a 
modified GM map that I'll work out. As for the options panel, again, I had to 
have my sighted cousin do it.

Phil replied: You could make up a drum map for BfD.  That maybe easier.

Damon wrote: I will probably get hsc into the mix more once I get this other 
crap sorted out. The minimum specs on their web site was
512mb of ram recommended 1gb and at least 1 ghz processor, which I have plenty 
of. I installed everything to a separate drive. I have a feeling though that my 
project in sonar, plus jaws, plus the bfd all plugin to get each drum on its 
own track is just too much.

Phil replied: I think your right about that.

Damon wrote: Some friends of mine tell me that single core processors are not 
going to cut it here, and now my search is on for something better. So, work 
will probably not progress much until I get a scenario
where bfd and sonar will not crash out the whole system. I could probably try 
the bfd groups plugin as opposed to the all plugin, but that means I have to 
mix in the bfd interface more, and I'd rather not do that since with bfd all, 
each drum has its own track and the pzm and room mics have theirs and I can mix 
the project in sonar and process each drum the way I want.

Phil replied: yup, I would go with the "BFD All", plug-in as you also get snare 
top and bottom mics which, you don't with the others.  Agree with you on the 
mixing aspect of this too.  You really don't want to be doing that within the 
BFD interface.

Damon wrote: GRRRR. OH well, back to guitar center today to see if I can work 
out something.

Phil replied: let us know how you get on.

Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
URL:
www.philmuir.com/
Band website:
www.steelstringmusic.co.uk/
Band my Space Site:
www.myspace.com/steelstringmusic
  From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
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  Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:54 AM
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  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: BFD nightmare continues
   

  Damon wrote: Phil. After working all day on this, here's what I have found. 
The bfd was crashing when  loading in the pearl or the ayote kits. These, 
naturally, are the biggest kits. I turned off all the animation and turned on 
16 bit processing and this helped, at least until I loaded them into sonar, 
when it totally took out the whole computer once I began to play or record. 
From what I have determined, bfd and sonar just overload my athlon 3000 with 
2gb of ram.

   

  Phil replied: where did you find those settings?  Have you added those to the 
HSC set?

   

  Damon wrote: In short, I need a new system to use BFD. I am not a happy guy. 
I tried switching from asio drivers to wdm on the tascam and tweaking latency 
and such, and
  making sure the whole subsystem was 16 bit and no higher and it just won't do 
it. I can play the drums just fine on their own now at least, and even edit the 
kits, etc, but I can't record with them, which kind of defeats the purpose, a 
shame, too since this bfd can be made very accessible with hsc, not to mention 
it can be mapped to hardware control using CC values and if you use BFD all as 
the plugin, I can mix the levels of each piece of a drum kit, the
  room and pzm mics, etc, using the tascam to control the tracks individually. 
So, it is possible to use this, but not when the damn pc blows up when I try to 
record.

   

  Phil replied: did you manage to load up a second tom set so that you have 6 
toms instead of 3?  I never did get that working here.

   

  Damon wrote: I am so bummed out I could cry.

   

  Phil replied: I understand.  Still may be worth shooting an E-mail out to 
FXpansion.  Would have thought that you should be able to run BFD on a system 
like yours.  Hmm, wonder what the minimum recommended system is for running 
BFD?  Also, have you added to the BFD HSC set that I set you?  If soe then, 
wouldn't mind taking a look at it.


  Regards, Phil Muir
  P J Muir Productions
  Music And Audio Production
  URL:
  www.philmuir.com/
  Band website:
  www.steelstringmusic.co.uk/
  Band my Space Site:
  www.myspace.com/steelstringmusic

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