How do I do that?
Literally going insane here.
Can’t find the setting in BFD 3.
I right mousee click the hats but can not find the All Hats Variable setting.
This software is incredible sounding but the interface is horrible.
Very user unfriendly.
Saving for SD3.
BFD 3 is just too complicated for me.
Maybe I just mute the hats in BFD 3 and use another software;'s hats.
I am afraid that I have jumped ship to SD3 and am loving it. The ambient sounds are so much better as is the mixing environment. I am not sure that I would want to move back, despite agonising over the move in the first place. Some of those SDX’s are magnificent sounding and have given my work a polish it has not previously had.
SD3 is not without it’s own issues, however, it is a mature piece of software that just works.
I got SD3 for Christmas and loving it. Not really tried many alternatives (mainly Drums in NI Komplete), but it seems awesome. Downside is that I think buying the drum expansions and midi packs may become expensively addictive…
I picked up BFD3 and some expansions in a recent sale, very impressed with how easy it is to create authentic sounding hits. I had planned to use it more for non-electronic but I’m finding myself running it through distortion to add nice sounding energetic drive.
Very disappointed on how confusing BFD 3 is with midi mapping.
Seems to try to put different assignments on pieces everytime I use it.
Now my crashes are playing the toms in BFD 3 .
I have set the BFD 3 key mapper to GEneral midi.
I set Cubase mapper to general midi and set up every pad note in to their respective note out assignments in Cubase.
I have them all written on paper and have checked and checked to make sure they are right.
With these settings ,SD2 plays everything perfectly.
Great sounds,horrible software.
P.S. Trying to scour internet for list of musical notes corresponding to each drum item for General midi.
I have doubled checked on my Yamaha dtx Multi 12 and my general midi in Cubase and everything seems correct.
Unless BFD 3 is buggy now and the Gen midi map for it is wrong?
I just wanna make music.
Sick to death of effing around for hours with shitty software.
I just let BFD have its pieces on whatever keys they may, and then in Cubase’s Drum Editor, bottom left, for the drum map, I use the option “Get/create drum map from instrument”. This usually does it easily.
Do you want to have specific keys on your MIDI keyboard correspond to specific kit pieces in BFD? In that case, create a keymap from within BFD. Another thing to keep in mind is when swapping kit pieces. It’s possible to unintentionally substitute a crash “slot” with a tom for example, and then everything gets messed up.
Edit: Do you have an E-Kit? Do you play your drums from a MIDI keyboard? If yes, then you need to load up the General MIDI Keymap from withing BFD and pay attention to what drums you are loading in which slot.
But if you are just programming your drums from the key / drum editor, I don’t see any reason to use a General MIDI keymap. You might as well use BFD 3.0 keymap for the extra pieces and articulations. It’s still the press of a single button to have Cubase follow the exact assignments.
BFD3 is broken software.
I proved it by playing the exact same midi recording then swapping out BFD 3 for SD 2.
SD 2 plays the pedal,closed and open hats perfectly.
BFD 3does not.
The exact same midi file.
Saving up for SD 3.
BFD 3 is broken.
I am using a yamaha dtx multi 12 with dtx snare pad and hh65 kick pad and the hi hat foot pedal.
BFD is rubbish.
SD2 ,an older software just works every time.
I wrote all my midi keys from the Yamaha onm a note pad then used Cubase to make sure the in notes matched the yamaha and then used the gen midi out notes.
Then I selected the general midi key map from within BFD 3.
It does not play the hats properly or other pieces.
The closet I got in BFD was choosing the Logi X midi key map lol.
This software is broken.
I really hope for their sake BFD 4 is more intuitive with midi mapping because BFD 3 is a nightmare.
Even loading the actual dtx multi 12 midi key from BFD 3 plays nothing,no sound at all.
I used the “create drum map from instrument” command.
My pedal hats play like open hats.
Everything is effed up.
Broken software BFD 3.
The new drum map does not even list a pedal hat lmao.
Is that a Cubase bug?
I decided to load SD 2 and create drum map from instrument ,but now that option is greyed out.
Sigh,going bald here.
In need of a few beers.
I give up.
Going to the gym.
Going senile trying to work this out.
BFD has AMAZING sounds but absolutely useless for playing edrums.
Found out “Create drum map from instrument” is only available with VST3 instruments.
“They’re coming to take me away…”
P.S. Just loaded Modo Drum which is VST 3.
“Create Drum Map from Instrment” is STILL greyed out.
Calling ambulance.
I’m done.
Apparently the instrument has to support this function which Modo Drum or SD2 don’t provide.
And the BFD 3 map is broken because there is no Pedal hats listed AT ALL.
Certified insane.
So I decide to load Groove Agent which hangs Cubase and takes forever to load which is really strange being a Steinberg product.
I load a kit then “create a midi map from instrument”
I press the midi map notes corresponding to the listed kit pieces.
NOTHING ,NOT A SINGLE SOUND!
Certified brain dead.
What the hell is going on???
I decided the change the sample rate of the project.
Set it back to 48k which fixed the hanging Groove Agent problem.
Created a midi map from instrument.
Still NO SOUND!
Groove Agent set to instrument mode not pattern.
The actual keys corresponding to the patterns like “Intro,Chorus” actually work but the instrument midi map assignments make no sound at all.
So Cubase has bugs as well?
So the function “create midi maps from instrument” is BROKEN in the latest version of Cubase 13 Pro?
Sending Steinberg a support ticket.
I reckon it is Windows 11 Pro causing the issues.
Modo Drums is in fact General Midi so a drum map is easily available. As is Superior Drummer, although the more extensive SDX’s have extra assignments…