I think @exBFD_Drew mentioned a while back that a fully scalable UI was definitely coming to a BFD4 near you. 
Steve
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If a main kit graphic is staying in BFD4, and I cant see a reason why there wouldnt be a kit graphic, it would be handy if the different articulations of each kit piece, and where to click on the kit piece to trigger the articulations, were shown.
As in, clicking the edge of a snare triggers a different articulation than hitting the centre of the snare (and the same with cymbals), but where those different articulations are isnt entirely obvious, unless one is clicking the very edge of a hihat or the very centre.
Having a visual representation of where these articulations actually switch over would be very convenient.
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@Kafka I’ll be damned if I haven’t stared at those very arrows and not once since owning a license for BFD clicked on them. I have however repeatedly tried mousing over the edges of the UI in the hopes that I could click and drag.
It makes me realize both how powerful and how weirdly dated the whole thing feels
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@Artlessbugbear It’s a weird interface. I can’t think of another app that works like that. I think it showed up mid v3, but I forget when.
I’d really like to be able to customize all font sizes on all my apps. BFD3 isn’t great, but it’s better than Kontakt. I think I read somewhere that NI gave a hard ‘no’ on that one. That probably means the subject is more complex and tied to early design decisions than we may realize.
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@Rik77 Thanks for the iPad version request. I love it.
Recently I was thinking BFD needs to do something like Two Notes do on their products. For guitar I use the Torpedo Live in the studio which I edit from my mac and live I use the CaptorX with the iPad app to edit presets. It works so well.
BFD on iPad needs to have the ability to link up with BFD on the computer where you can edit and transfer your favourite Kits and Presets so you can work with your top live kits on the iPad. If it was a lite-ish version, I would like it to have full individual drum samples. Not 50%-70% of the full samples on the BFD computer version. A full 5 Drum kits is good so live work can be carried out efficiently and if you need a change from any of the 5 you can swap them out with one using the computer version.
I need to have a look at the recent I/O set up for iPads and see what’s going on now.
I have heard of the Alesis Strike Pro being able to load some of the BFD samples and work for live use. But I think it only does a limited amount of samples per kit piece so the expression is limited, not entirely sure on this though.
BFD are my favourite so I would love to see it set new standards in the VST and E-drum world.
Thanks.
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Although I would love to see BFD in a module for edrums, I think the iPad is a great idea for a flexible solution for current edrum setups. 
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A right click option to hide a channel. I use separate mono channel outs for snare and kick (Kick In - mono 1, Kick Out - Mono 2, Kick Sub - Mono 3 etc) but the main Kick channel is still visible. As this is now redundant as no audio goes to it then it would be nice to hide it. If you get what I mean
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I’m guessing ‘remove unused channels’ doesn’t do it then?
Steve
I’d like a separate control for bass drum re trigger filter in engine …quite often there is bounce on bass drum triggers and a longer filter would be good… other drums require short re triggers for flams etc and seem to be fine
No, because if you do that on the kick or snare after you have routed the mic positions to separate outs it unloads the drum so u lose them
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Please, BFD, none of this in BFD4
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Paying no heed to feasibility:
Multi-piece paint tool in the groove editor. Let’s call it “stencil” tool.
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Copy a groove of duration x that uses n pieces of the kit.
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Designate the order in which the voices will be spread across the target pieces on the next step.
-Click and drag. Now, the groove will be spread onto the newly designated target pieces, up to duration x, then it will loop over if dragged more. Dragging up or down will still modify velocities.
Im likely to try this at some point soon, I am determined to get some BFD functionality on my RPi4 and have a tiny mobile BFD kit. Still trying to get my head round the possibility, but at a 2.3ghz overclock, and with 8gb of RAM, and an SSD, I dont think I’m out my mind just yet 
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Now that’s an awesome project!
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It would honestly be the best dedicated drum machine one could have.
Its more likely to happen natively via BFD themselves if we ask for it tho 
That would be out of this world. I don’t know how expensive things become on the hardware side, so as to build in pads, or a midi interface, or what not, but surely a prototype like the one you envision connected to a ddrums module (ex alesis io) could really be a major force!
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The RPi4 starts at around £30, and goes up to about £70 for the 8gb model. Its stock clock is 1.5ghz but mine overclocks absolutely fine to 2.3ghz, and thats a clock most seem to be able to handle.
Really surprising little machine. And its tiny. Just needs a monitor (I had a spare big monitor, but I might get a tiny screen for it), Reaper Daw works great on it (linux version is stable and out of beta), and its got USB 3 for an audio interface (it can be picky with what it will accept but most class compliant USB interfaces work with it, tho the audio devices software is unlikely to work without some effort). My Tascam Model 12 works fine at low latency, my previous 16 channel mixer worked fine, Zoom H5, and now my Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 is just as fine with it at low latencies. And this is all on Raspberry Pi OS, a Linux thing.
If one gets Windows Arm version on there, theres maybe more chance of it being an easy port/fix. I havent tried any of this yet, because laziness 
EDIT: I’ll try my Beat Step Pro at some point in Reaper linux too, and eventually Windows Arm. I dont see myself ever buying another full desktop PC tbh.
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didn’t mean you with that remark, which we may as well ignore, sorry
I’m actually a little frustrated at the same workarounds every single launch for years, with no support addressing it except when I got very assertive with ROLI (who were inclined to deflect to it being not their problem before I did. It’s not a VSL problem; it was fixed by ROLI in a couple of days once the support person grasped the issue, to the extent it does work at this juncture. It may mean some interaction with VSL’s team to address the specifics I mention but the issue exists primary with BFD3, it’s about the hard-wired slot designations. it’s admittedly complex.).
on point, the notion that VE Pro not doing mono channels per se is a problem, they aren’t converted to stereo or anything and are mono, shown by a goniometer. I use their Pro version Power Panner in mono mode for some things (it has features, not to get bogged down in) but not usually needed.
Def. not a problem, I put all drums in mono out, cymbals to stereo.
I’d love to see a Trigger function that could take a WAV track and replace it with a BFD kick/sare of my choice. OR integrate it so we could open with Trigger2 from Slate.
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Integration with Akai MPC 3.0 Software would be very nice…
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Some way to place favorite, or most used, presets at the top of the list.