This is because (as it says) BFD defaults to the stereo master. You'll notice that in the sonar track (or console) view the meters will be registering but only on the first 2 channels.

Really you should just experiment, load up BFD, load a BFD 2 preset, (these give you, both kit and mixer setting in one preset and will often have a midi loop loaded too so you can just hit play once the kit has loaded) BFD doesn't rout them for you, it just gives you the routing options for you to set up how you want.Ĭlick on and of these outputs that say master and you will see your ouput options, the fisrt will say 'master' and it's stereo, the next are numbered 2 to 8 these are also stereo and the following. When you select this option go to the BFD mixer page, there at the bottom of each individual channel you will see your ouputs, they wlill all say, 'Master' as that is their default. What is gives you in reality is, 8 stereo outs and 16 mono outs. 'all synth outputs to stereo' which is indeed slightly confusing for it is a lie or at best a half truth. This is what I do and it works for me, there may of course be other, and even better ways so perhaps others here will give you some.įirstly, when when loading BFD via the synth rack I will check the option, I was one who gave one of the (hopefully) interesting replies to your first post ( Session Drummer 3 -vs- BFD? ) and I can assure you my answer was correct.

If you need to use BFD2’s MIDI Out function, remember to check the ‘Enable MIDI Out’ checkbox in the synth properties dialog. In order to separate channels into discrete outputs, you must first route the relevant channels to the desired BFD2 outputs in the BFD2 mixer. If you do not know how to do this, please consult your Sonar documentation or contact Cakewalk support.īy default, all channels in BFD2 are routed to the Master channel in the BFD2 mixer, which is hard-wired to the first stereo output (output 1-2). Unfortunately, this dialog box does not include an option to create all the required stereo and mono outputs, so it is recommended to choose ‘All Synth Audio Outputs: Stereo’, and afterwards manually change the stereo channels created for BFD2’s mono 1-16 outputs to mono channels. ' In the synth properties dialog box that appears, you can choose to set up BFD2’s additional outputs in the Sonar mixer. If I could get someone to give me a 'step by step' from the 'Sonar' point of view, that would be awesome. Well, Here is an excerpt from the BFD2 manual that, for me, does anything but make it relative to that of Session Drummer! There were comments comparing this process to that of Session Drummer.

I got some interesting comments, but no real suggestions on exactly how to do this. I recently posted a thread asking for info on routing BFD2 drums to individual Sonar tracks.

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