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2017/05/29 12:19:35
Marshall
Hi 
Can anyone please point me to a guide as to how to set up BFD3 in Sonar Platinum so that the kick, snare, hi-hat etc get routed to separate tracks in SPLAT? 
 
I work like this with AD2, but as I also have BFD3, I'd like to revisit that. 
 
Thanks! 
2017/05/29 12:56:42
John
Click on the mixer in BFD3 at the bottom where it says master. You will get a sub menu to select mono or stereo. Clicking on one of those will give you tracks to route to. 
2017/05/30 12:59:31
Marshall
Thanks John - I see that option but how do I assign Mono 1, Mono 2 etc to tracks in Sonar? 
2017/05/30 13:21:26
CakeHulk
Marshall
Thanks John - I see that option but how do I assign Mono 1, Mono 2 etc to tracks in Sonar? 


Insert new audio tracks, select Mono,Mono2 or whatever you set in BFD3 as inputs.
2017/05/30 16:32:35
Bristol_Jonesey
When inserting BFD into your project, you have the option to insert multiple tracks on the fly.
 
I always do this but you do have to go back afterwards and delete the ones you don't want.
2017/06/01 06:12:28
Marshall
Bristol_Jonesey
When inserting BFD into your project, you have the option to insert multiple tracks on the fly.
 
I always do this but you do have to go back afterwards and delete the ones you don't want.


I'm still struggling with this and I apologise for being stupid...can you explain the steps required to do this please?
2017/06/01 06:26:48
Kamikaze
I don't own BFD, but I broke down the process with AD2. I imagine many of the same steps are the same. May help to take a look.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3584952
2017/06/01 08:28:10
Bristol_Jonesey
Kamikaze has provided an excellent resource for configuring multi output drums.
 
I'm not sure if this was addressed in his post, if it was, apologies, but it's necessary in BFD, after you've created all of your tracks in mono, to change the track interleaves on the Overheads, Room and any other ambient channels back to Stereo.
2017/06/02 00:15:35
karma1959
I had the same issue - read the bottom half of this thread- someone was kind enough to give me a very detailed explanation, which did the trick.  Hope this helps.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Export-BFD3-to-separate-tracks-sounds-fuzzy-m3550010.aspx
 
2017/06/02 18:35:57
Glyn Barnes
Its a good thing this thread was started. While I have not had issues with multi out VSTis I always found BFD3's mixture of mono and stereo outs a little confusing, but its not really, seeing these post made me revisit it and work through creating a proper template for a kit with mono and stereo outs rather than just using stereo.
 
I am also going to have a go some mono/stereo Superior Drummer templates and see if that improves my mixes.
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