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How would I set up BDF Eco (Drum Program) with BIAB to play the midi drum parts?

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BiaB allows only one MIDI port (one synth) at a time so this would be better done in RealBand.
It *can* be done by using MIDIYoke or similar program to add other MIDI ports, but not familiar with those myself.


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If the BDF will export to midi files, you could save your patterns as a midi file and import into Biab. You would want to then mute the drums in Biab.

You can also use the .seq (sequencer) button in Biab for imported midi files AFTER they have been imported properly. Since we are talking drums, they are probably on midi channel 10 and not much to do with using the .seq, unless they are scattered across several midi channels.

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I believe you mean Fxpansion's "BFD" not "BDF"!!

I have BFD 2, and what I would do is import whatever BIAB song I'm working on into a more convenient DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like, Sonar, Pro Tools, Cubase (maybe RealBand) etc with BIAB's convenient "Drag and Drop" feature!.

I'd then set up a muti track mix for BFD within my DAW (I use Sonar 8.5)

BFD is a super powerful drum program. And in terms of it's "mixing" capabilities you would want to use a Pro or Semi-Pro DAW in order to take full advantage of all of these features!

Recording BFD drums with BIAB is taking BIAB to a totally different level!!

It should be well worth the effort though!

Good Luck!

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Was curious on what it was and also pricing.
Good Ole G-shop and hit on this.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/B...amp;zmap=BFDeco

Very interesting package, its a plugin and it also runs standalone.

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Real Band won't work for the groove creation part.

It's a VST implementation problem that has not been fixed since RB first came out. Don't ask, none of us have any idea why, it must be a real big problem in the coding because PG is normally very good at fixing bugs like this. BFD will work fine as a drum sound module to play back prerecorded midi drum tracks you just can't use it to create the tracks.

As for using it in Biab as Rharv said, Biab only has one midi output port so if you were to use that port with BFD then all Biab midi tracks will play through the BFD. Piano or bass wouldn't sound so good as drums but if you were to use all Real Tracks and the only midi track is the drums, that would work.

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Since the drum part creation doesn't work in RB I just use the drum sample player from the same developers. DDR-005 or 008 work fine. Playing drum samples with the submixer is a treat. These sample players allow creating custom drumsets fairly easily.


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