Preferences panel

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The Preferences panel is displayed with the Show Preferences function in BFD3's Tools menu.

It features a number of functions to customize various aspects of BFD3's performance, resource usage, control behaviour and interface.

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The panel features a number of pages:

Data Preferences: settings related to BFD3's content locations and various startup loading options

Grooves Preferences: settings related to the Groove engine

Session Preferences: settings which are loaded and saved with Presets and host/DAW sessions when running the BFD3 plugin

MIDI Preferences: settings related to MIDI input

Engine Preferences: settings related to BFD3's core engine, modelling and streaming functions

GUI Preferences: settings related to BFD3's graphical user interface

Health Preferences: settings which are designed for troubleshooting purposes when you require support - please ignore this page unless instructed to use it by our technical support team

 

 

 

Profiles

The Preferences panel features a Profile system which loads/saves settings for all settings in the Engine Preferences page with the exception of the Simulation settings.

These profiles allow you to define different profiles for different situations - for example, low quality/detail level settings for composition work, and high-detail settings for mixdowns and exports.

Click the Load/Save button to display the Load Preference Profile... and Save Preference Profile... functions - use the latter function to save the current settings as a profile. Use the former function to load a profile from any location on disk, or use the main drop-down menu to choose from the available profiles currently in the database.

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The profile is also set using the BFD3 Setup Wizard, launched when using BFD3 for the first time or available at any time in BFD3's Help menu.