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5:9 Saving and exporting Grooves

Saving Grooves

If you create a new Groove or modify an existing Groove, it is likely that you will

want to save your Groove into the BFD2 database. With the desired Groove

selected, use the Save Groove... function in the BFD2 Save menu (located in the

Control bar).

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

Save location

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

the user level BFD2 folder as follows:

<user location>/Grooves

If you wish, you can save them in any other folder within the Grooves folder.

It is recommended that you save Grooves within the user Grooves location in

order for them to be visible in the Groove chooser panel.

Wherever you save a Groove, it is added to the BFD2 database. It is very im-

portant 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.

The information speciﬁed in the Groove info inspector is saved with Grooves.

Additionally, their Library ﬁeld is set to ‘User’.

Naming the saved Groove ﬁle

The current name of the Groove, as deﬁned in the Groove Info inspector, is the default ﬁlename shown. Either stick with this or

type a different ﬁlename, then hit ENTER or click the Save button in order to save the Groove.

If you type a new ﬁlename to replace the default ﬁlename shown, BFD2 asks you if you want to change the name stored in the

Groove’s Name ﬁeld. The Name ﬁeld is used to label the Groove in BFD2’s database, so setting it properly is important for relo-

cating Grooves in future.

BFD2’s Groove format

When you save a Groove in this way, it is saved in BFD2’s proprietary Groove format – this is not a MIDI ﬁle. The reason for this

is that Grooves contain events related directly to BFD2’s articulations, meaning that Grooves are not reliant on a certain MIDI

keymap.

If you need to save a Groove as a MIDI ﬁle, use the Groove MIDI export functions in BFD2.

If you have a set of Grooves in the Palette, you can save the whole Palette which saves each individual Groove with it. The

Grooves can always be loaded as individual Grooves, although the ‘Show Palettes’ button must be enabled in the Groove choos-

er. See section 5:10 for a guide to saving Palettes.

Exporting Grooves as MIDI

If you wish to save Grooves for use in other MIDI applications, you can save a Groove as a MIDI ﬁle. In order to do this, select the

Groove and use the Export Groove MIDI... function in the BFD2 Control bar Save menu.

This results in a system ﬁle save dialog being displayed, prompting you to export the Groove. The current name of the Groove, as

deﬁned in the Groove Info inspector, is the default ﬁlename shown for the MIDI ﬁle. If you need to, navigate to the correct location

and type a different ﬁlename, and then hit ENTER or click Save.

If more than one Groove is selected, a series of numbered Grooves is saved based on the speciﬁed ﬁlename.

The current MIDI mapping is used for the export. If an articulation is mapped to more than one key, the lowest key to which it is

mapped is used for its MIDI events in the exported ﬁle.

Using the MIDI export mode setting in the Grooves preferences, you can choose to export a MIDI ﬁle containing one track for all

kit-pieces, one track per kit-piece or one track per articulation.

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