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1:6 Status Bar
MIDI Log
Clicking this button opens an external MIDI log window, making it easy to view and troubleshoot incoming MIDI events. The
contents of the log are identical to the smaller log built into the Keymap page.
See section 8:4 for more details of MIDI logging in BFD2.
Audio stream indicator
The Audio stream indicator lights up when BFD2 has successfully launched and been integrated into the host audio engine
(when running as a plugin) or when the standalone version of BFD2 has successfully established communication with the
specified audio device.
MIDI stream indicator
This indicator lights up whenever BFD2 receives any MIDI input.
RAM indicator
This indicator displays how much RAM is being used by BFD2. This includes the cached start portion of each sound,
plus a small overhead for BFD2’s engine.
CPU and hard disk performance meters
The 3 horizontal meters in the status bar provide a perform-
ance guage for several aspects of BFD2’s system resource
usage.
Synthesis engine CPU usage
The synthesis engine is involved in receiving MIDI input or generating Groove engine events and playing back the relevant articu-
lations.
Mixer engine CPU usage
The mixer engine processes all routing, mixing and FX functions in BFD2.
Hard disk load
This meter indicates the intensity of hard disk resource usage. Do not be alarmed if this meter reaches high values, as your
machine may well be able to handle a large amount of disk usage. It is intended as an indicator of the amount of hard disk activity
that is occurring.
If your machine cannot handle the amount of disk usage required, the side-effects are usually clearly audible – tails may be cut or
intermittent, and audio dropouts or other artifacts may occur.
Offline switch
This switch is intended for use with hosts that provide an offline (non-realtime) bounce or mixdown facility. When the Of-
fline switch is on, BFD2 waits for all data to be properly delivered from the hard disk before allowing the host to continue,
ensuring that sounds are not cut off before their full decay is complete.
Please note that Offline mode is non-realtime, and should only be used during offline mixdown or rendering in your sequencer, if
it even offers this feature. Do not leave the Offline switch enabled during ordinary playback.
If your sequencer only provides realtime bouncing facilities (a good example is Pro Tools), you should leave Offline mode turned
off at all times.
MIDI
Log
Transport
controls
Beat light Time
signature
Tempo
Playback
position
Offline
switch
MIDI & audio
stream
indicators
Controller
learn
CPU & HD
performance
meters
RAM
indicator
Context info
display
Rude
solo light
Synthesis CPU
Mixer CPU
Hard disk load
- Dec 2007 1
- Contents 2
- customizing BFD2 5
- 1:1 An introduction to BFD2 6
- 1:2 BFD2 Architecture 7
- Articulations 8
- Mic channels 8
- Direct mic channels (mono) 9
- Microphone buses 10
- Personnel 11
- Kit preparation and tuning 11
- Microphones 12
- Control conventions 13
- 1:5 Control bar 14
- Load menu 15
- Save menu 15
- Help menu 15
- 1:6 Status Bar 16
- Controller learn 17
- Context info display 17
- Transport 17
- Rude Solo light 18
- Beat light 18
- Time signature 18
- Playback position 18
- 1:7 Loading BFD2 Presets 19
- Sticky button 20
- Load BFD1 20
- Load / Cancel buttons 20
- Keyboard operation 20
- 1:8 Saving BFD2 Presets 21
- 1:9 BFD2 Help functions 22
- 2:1 Kit page overview 24
- 2:2 Kit Size 25
- 32-piece kit 26
- Switching kit sizes 26
- Loading in the Kit page 27
- Saving in the Kit page 27
- 2:4 Loading and saving kits 28
- Saving kits 30
- Kit display 31
- Kit-Piece Slot windows 32
- 2:6 Loading Kit-Pieces 33
- Preview & Info 35
- Building unorthodox kits 36
- Sample Import panel 37
- Import settings 37
- Photo settings 38
- Velocity layers 38
- Import & Cancel 38
- Progress bar 38
- 2:8 Kit page toolbar 39
- 2:9 Kit-piece inspector 40
- Basic kit-piece controls 41
- Ambience sends 42
- Advanced kit-piece controls 42
- Kit-piece bleed controls 43
- Articulation controls 43
- Vel to Tune 44
- Vel to Damp 44
- 2:10 Mini-mixer 45
- 2:11 MIDI Note Learn wizard 46
- Next slot mode 47
- Wait mode 47
- 3:1 Mixer page overview 48
- Loading mixer presets 49
- Saving Mixer presets 51
- Channel views 52
- Ambience channels 53
- Aux channels 54
- Master channel 54
- Utility Panel 56
- FX/Sends views 57
- Channel Image 59
- FX/Sends power indicators 59
- FX slots 59
- Input and Sidechain trim 60
- 3:6 Using the mixer 61
- Channel context menu 62
- Signal Routing indicators 63
- 3:7 Using FX 64
- FX Preset browser 65
- Swapping FX between slots 65
- Sends panel 66
- Send indicators 66
- Using Sidechaining 67
- 3:9 Mic tools panel 68
- 3:10 Mixer preset panel 69
- 3:11 Audio Export panel 70
- Export Sync mode 71
- Duration 71
- 4:1 Introduction 72
- 4:2 Grooves page interface 73
- 4:4 Undo function 75
- 4:6 Using the Groove Engine 76
- MIDI channels and key ranges 77
- 5:2 Loading Palettes 78
- Audition Preview buttons 79
- Auto-preview 79
- 5:3 Loading Grooves 81
- Show Palettes button 82
- Delete Groove from Database 82
- Load from File 82
- Start and End Groove Actions 83
- Latching mode 83
- Polyphonic mode 83
- Stopping previews 84
- Preview mouse behaviour 84
- Selecting Grooves 85
- Slot context menu 86
- 5:6 Groove Actions 87
- End Actions for Grooves 89
- Slot End Actions for Fills 89
- Groove formats 90
- MIDI Import mapping 90
- MIDI Import panel 91
- Groove Info Inspector 92
- Palette Info inspector 93
- Saving Grooves 94
- Exporting Grooves as MIDI 94
- Export Groove as Audio 95
- 5:10 Saving Palettes 96
- 6:2 Editor Grid 99
- Events 100
- Ruler and Groove length 100
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- Velocity lane 101
- Zoom and scroll controls 102
- Draw tool 103
- Hearing events during editing 103
- Select tool 103
- Erase tool 104
- Mute tool 104
- Velocity tool 104
- Undo button 104
- 6:4 Other Editor functions 105
- Keyboard shortcuts 106
- Replacing elements 107
- Merging elements 107
- MIDI Mappings 108
- Initiating recording 108
- Recording modes 108
- Metronome button 108
- Record lead-in 108
- 6:7 Groove FX panel 109
- Quantize effect 110
- Double/Half time effect 110
- Simplify effect 110
- Dynamics effect 110
- Swing effect 111
- Humanize effects 111
- Humanize Velocity 111
- Humanize Timing 111
- 7:1 Auto-Play mode 112
- Drum Track 113
- 7:2 Drum Track Introduction 114
- 7:3 Drum Track display 115
- Selecting Parts 116
- Part context menu 117
- Export settings 118
- 7:7 Using BFD2’s MIDI Out 119
- 8:1 Overview 120
- Loading key maps 121
- Loading Automation maps 123
- Save Key Map 124
- Save Automation Map 124
- Save Key + Automation maps 124
- Save MIDI Event Log 124
- 8:4 Key mapping view 125
- Key labelling 126
- Single-articulation previews 127
- Key context menu 127
- MIDI event log 127
- External MIDI Log 127
- Special articulations 129
- 8:6 Mapping inspector 130
- Automation view interface 132
- Clear All Auto 133
- Learn mode 133
- Delete selected mapping 133
- Creating a MIDI CC mapping 134
- MIDI note view 135
- Creating a MIDI note mapping 135
- Parameter 136
- How electronic drumkits work 137
- 9:2 Simple hihat control 138
- 9:3 Variable hihat control 139
- Variable hihat controls 140
- Lock Tip and Shank 140
- All Hihats variable setting 141
- Preferences 142
- Kit-piece Inspector 143
- 9:5 Positional snare control 144
- 9:6 Controlling cymbals 144
- 1. Session preferences: 145
- 2. Global preferences: 145
- 10:2 Data preferences 146
- 10:3 Groove preferences 147
- Editor Preferences 148
- Metronome 149
- 10:4 Session preferences 150
- Session Playback preferences 151
- 10:5 MIDI preferences 152
- Key Mapping preferences 153
- 10:6 Engine preferences 154
- Synth options 155
- Fade preferences 156
- Special concerns for hihats 157
- 10:7 GUI preferences 158
- Mixer GUI Options 159
- Kit Page 159
- Keyboard Shortcuts 159
- Chapter 11 PROGRAMMING TIPS 160
- Tightening closed hihats 161
- Tuning the kit 161
- 11:4 Layering 162
- 11:5 Programming patterns 163
- Overview 164
- D.CAM FX 164
- 12:1 Mixing basics 165
- Approaching EQ 166
- Approaching compression 166
- 12:2 EQ and filtering 167
- Filter Mod 168
- 12:3 Dynamics processing 169
- Comp Chan 170
- Comp Bus 170
- Noise Gate 171
- LP Freq & HP Freq 172
- Bit Crusher 173
- Delay 174
- Flanger 175
- Chorus 175
- RingMod 176
- TinCanVerb 176
- 12:7 Routing scenarios 179
- 12:8 External processing 180
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