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Photo & Rating

The large photo of the Preset, showing a representation of the included kit-pieces, is espe-

cially useful when using ‘List’ or ‘Details’ View settings.

Above the photo is the star rating control, with which you can rate the preset by clicking on

one of the stars. This is used as a ‘favourites’ system when the Sorting type is set to ‘Star

rating’: Presets are shown in order of their rating. This means that those with a higher rating

are shown ﬁrst.

When you set a preset’s Star rating, it is applied immediately to the BFD2 database.

1:8 Saving BFD2 Presets

To save the current state of BFD2 as a Preset, use the Save BFD2 Preset func-

tion on the Control bar Save menu.

A system ﬁle save dialog is displayed, prompting you to save the Preset to disk.

The suggested ﬁlename used for the Preset is that deﬁned in the Preset name

box, although you can type a new ﬁlename if you wish.

When you are happy with the ﬁlename and location, hit ENTER or click the Save

button.

Save location

When you save your own Presets, you are prompted by default to save them in

the user level BFD2 folder as follows:

<user location>/Presets

It is recommended that you stick to this location, so that your Presets are acces-

sible whenever you use the Preset chooser.

Wherever you save the Preset, it is added to the BFD2 database. It is very important to remember, however, that if it is removed

from the database (or if you trash and rebuild your database), items not saved in the user location are not re-scanned.

Preset photo

When you save a Preset, a TGA graphic ﬁle is saved along with it, showing images of the kit-pieces it contains. This photo is then

visible in the Preset chooser panel during future browsing.

Elements saved with Presets

When you save a Preset, all the following elements are saved with it:

• Kit (kit-pieces and kit-piece setups)

• Mixer

• Groove Palette, Drum Track and other Groove page settings

• MIDI keymap

• Automation map – MIDI CC, note and host automation assignments

• Session preferences

It is not possible to opt not to save any of these elements. You can, however, selectively choose to load only certain elements

(with the exception of embedded Session preferences) when recalling Presets at a later time.

If you speciﬁcally do not want to save certain elements, for example Grooves or mixer FX, within a Preset, you should ﬁrst clear

the Palette or remove the FX from the mixer before saving the Preset.

Alternatively, you may want to save a Preset with mixer settings but no kit-pieces, so that you can load whatever kit-pieces you

want into a certain mixer setup. Since mixer channels are dependent on kit-pieces being loaded, it is necessary to ﬁrst create the

mixer settings with kit-pieces loaded. However, before saving the Preset, clear the kit (remove all kit-pieces from their slots). The

mixer channels remain, but they are inactive until you load kit-pieces into the relevant slots.

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