I did a lot of comment in the old forum for upgrade. Why i can’t bring them back here ? Where is the old forum ?
I think most of us did and I thought the old forum was going to be restored as an archive but god knows when.
All my posts were accidentally deleted in some great spam clear out.
Steve
Your posts were de-authorised! 
If only, I could then reauthorise them in the LM. 
Steve
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Some ideas :
Works more the current ergonomics
- More shortcuts assignation (example no shortcuts exist for duplicate...)
- More Clever trick. For example, when i duplicate a grove, i would need to double click on it to edit it name instead of an heavy right clic...
- Auto save the groove : each time, it's just a pain in the a.. to go to file and save my groove. We are in 2021 !!! Ctrl +S, auto save, it's basics !!!!
- Please don't ask me each time i leave my BFD3 to be sure i have not forget something or it will be not saved !
- Add a line to set the start point of the start/stop cycle when tuning a groove ; double clicking in the bar is a pain !!!!
- Theses things are easy to implement and improve greatly the workflow when working hard on groove
- permit the FX to be applied just on events, not on whole groups
- Preview option when click or changing velocity value don't reflect it, it's boring to set the velocity and hear x times the same sound, totally useless !
- Take in account the tempo set in the goorve, in the global tempo setting !
- Indicate the name of the kit selected, fed up to click on save to know it, it's really a basic...
- Color the line, it's hard to say with articulation i'm clicking sometimes, alternate color could help.
- Let us personnalize all our defaut path : for example i save everything on an external disk, nothing directly on my PC, so i have to play with shortcut in defaut path each time... Boring !
Resize the windows like evry apps on windows, just with the mouse (OK, i could live without, just strange)
Improve the library scanning, somethimes it fall somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Give some clue to your customer where the scan is locked, finished, not finished...
More value to sell ? Work to some tools/assistant to help to designing grooves. Rudiment is a good example of a tool simple which help a lot
More value to sell ? The library manager is not optimal to classify grooves by theme, genre ect. Help us to find the good groove according to the current groove for example.
Help us also to release our own library easily ! You may even do a market place permitting people to exchange sets for example
If you design a new library : Keep it robust and portable : i don't invest some hours on it to just lost everything while i'm changing a dir or my PC.
To be continued...Somes ideas :
- Let people define easily their own Genre in the library (and not only the genre, verything should be customizable, as we have all a differents needs)
- Permit to use different tempo in the same groove (avanced technics)
- When i move today my users palets to another disk, the favorite is lost in the viewer an i need to retag all of the, not normal, it’s a work and it’s time lost !
- Maybe a kind of start and stop point with pre roll of x S and post roll of x s, in order to fix some part of a groove, to void to repeat it completly.
*Snapshot feature : Take a snapshot of your current riff, modify it, then compare with the original one and the better - Variant feature : Take a base, and make a new riff with some fast and little variations.
- Display strenght time, weak time, with colors, let the user choose to display it or not if he want.
- On each lane, let the user choose to auto collapse it or not. For example i have all the time open kic, and snare, and i prefer to have the other lane collapsed until i open it.
- An idea would be to permit to set manually the duration of a particulart event, in order to gate some of them (ex : i don’t wan’t my crash to sound too long on a loop…)
- Often i work on low velocity in order to get subtilities. Would be great to have some kind of manuel velocity min and max to set, as it’s rarely nice to have a lot of dynamic on notes. For example whatever i done, my veloicty won’t me less than x and more thant y.
- Permit to ddraw some curve for velocity (currently, only line are possibles), like Cubase does for example.
To be continued…
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Effects Window: ability to save entire effect chains and apply them to other instruments.
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Not sure how popular or smart this would be on BFDs part, but how about letting users create their own multitracked instruments?
I don’t know if I’m breaking any laws but I use my old 7.1 mastering/congealment tools (and XML editing) to create my own libraries from sessions I’m recording or mixing and it’s made BFD an absolutely essential part of my job.
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Regardless of how good any software is, I absolutely refuse to even consider it if it is only available via a subscription service. If an option exists for software that I am interested in to either subscribe or pay a one-time purchase price (even if subsequent major updates/upgrades require a fee), I will purchase a license.
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I would like to have the drag and drop MIDI mapping that was in BFD2.
Kind regards,
Living Room Rocker
Im not sure how it worked in BFD2, but it is possible to use drag and drop when creating drum maps in BFD3… at least according to pg. 134 of the BFD3 Operation Manual.
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One thing that would be very cool in BFD4 would be a feature that would analyze a specified MIDI or audio track and use timing data from note events or audio transients to generate basic groove patterns that could then be further tweaked. It would be challenging to implement, but it’s not impossible.
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Somes ideas :
- Permit people to manage more easily the palette collection (example : having two palette side by side permit to copy groove from one to the other. today, to make a new organization, copy/paste groove to a palette to another one is really a pain !
- An auto rename feature, with adding incremential number at begining of each groove name in a palette would be appreciated Also. You can take inspiration from the excellent GUI, Ant Renamer for example.
- When playing palette preview, respect groove tempo and not palette tempo (which is useless)
To be continued…
I’m not sure a subscription for a sampler with expansions would work anyways. It would have to be a very expensive sub price to justify all the work involved in creating those libraries.
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Somes ideas :
- Make BFD3 compatible with pedal looper like Boss RC10, RC1, RC5, RC500 beatbuddy and so on. Their are very poor and hard to program. Would be great to program a rythm and then export it in their formats. Would also enlarge BFD3 audience as well.
- Make an assistant to play a drum track while practicing guitar as example with a main riff and a bunch of variations automatically. After an hour of the same groove or fill, its often boring to hear the same drum groove. The assistant wil just have to get the list of selected base groove (at least one), and do fusion with fills or other grooves (or a custom list) like a true drummer doing variations at the end of the base pattern.
To be continued…
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I kinda do this already by loading a bunch of different grooves and turning on the automatic fill options, its obviously no where near as automated as what youre asking for but it serves a similar purpose of having a base rhythm and cycling thru other similar rhythms, and fills prior to changing groove.
Worth exploring if its not something you already do 
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A cheap upgrade price! Lol
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I can’t imagine it being lower than $149 to upgrade, but one can hope.
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$149 would be a cheap upgrade… I’d be happy with that.
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Yeah, iirc, that’s what it was from BFD2 to 3. Pretty standard stuff.