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Importing MIDI ﬁles into the Palette

BFD2 allows you to import a MIDI ﬁle into a slot in the Palette, and optionally split the ﬁle into smaller Grooves to be placed on

ascending slots beginning with the destination slot.

Initiating MIDI import

There are two ways of initiating the MIDI import process.

Using drag & drop

Drag & drop a MIDI ﬁle onto the destination Palette slot from a system ﬁle location such as the desktop or a folder window.

Using the Groove chooser

You can load a MIDI ﬁle using the Groove chooser by proceeding as follows:

1. double-click the destination palette slot to bring up the Groove chooser

2. click the ‘Load from ﬁle’ button

3. set the ﬁle type to *.mid.

4. browse to and open the MIDI ﬁle

MIDI Import panel

After initiating the MIDI import process using one of the two above methods, the MIDI

Import panel appears.

MIDI ﬁle summary

The summary area displays an analysis of the imported MIDI ﬁle. The ﬁlename,

tempo, time signature and length in bars are shown.

Importing the MIDI ﬁle as a single Groove

If you want to import the whole MIDI ﬁle onto one slot as a single Groove, you don’t

need to make any adjustments in the MIDI import panel – simply click the Import but-

ton to import the MIDI ﬁle as a Groove onto the destination slot.

If you change your mind, click the Cancel button to return to the Groove page without

importing anything.

Splitting and importing the MIDI ﬁle as multiple Grooves

BFD2 allows you to split the MIDI ﬁle into smaller Grooves of equal length, to be imported into ascending Palette slots beginning

with the destination slot.

In order to do this, you need to adjust the Groove split parameters.

Bars per Groove

This parameter speciﬁes the length of each smaller Groove in bars.

Grooves

This parameter shows the number of smaller Grooves that will be created with the current ‘Bars per Groove’ setting.

Import Groove

This pair of values allows you to set up a range of the smaller Grooves created to actually import to Palette slots.

New name

This ﬁeld allows you to enter a name for the Grooves to import. These named Grooves are numbered sequentially in the Palette.

Import & Cancel

Once you’ve set the parameters up as required, click the Import button. The MIDI ﬁle is split as speciﬁed and the desired seg-

ments are imported into the Palette as Grooves, in ascending slots starting with the destination slot.

If you change your mind, click the Cancel button to return to the Grooves page without importing anything.

You can also press the ESC key in order to cancel the operation.

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