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Interface overview
1:5 Control bar
Page buttons
Clicking these large buttons switches to one of the five Pages, each covering a different aspect of BFD2’s operation. Only one
Page can be active at any one time.
Kit page – chapter 2
The Kit page is used for building and tweaking the kit, as well as providing very simple mixing functions.
Mixer page – chapters 3 and 12
BFD2’s advanced and full-featured mixer gives you access to virtually unlimited routing, mixing and effects
processing. The built-in EQ, compression and other effects can be accessed here, as well as advanced mic ma-
nipulation and audio export functions. If you’re more of a writer than an engineer, a variety of professional mixer
presets are at your fingertips.
Grooves page – chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7
The Grooves page is an advanced drum sequencing environment allowing you to preview, load and play BFD2’s
library of ready-made Grooves. It also includes an advanced Groove editor, humanization effects and a number
of ways of varying Grooves over time, such as the Drum Track, which allows you to sequence a whole track of
individual Grooves.
Mapping page – chapters 8 and 9
BFD2 features powerful mapping for playing its drum sounds and automating its parameters.
Preferences page – chapter 10
The Preferences Page allows you to customize BFD2 to your needs by changing a number of settings.
Preset indicator
The Preset indicator displays the name of the last loaded BFD2 Preset. You can also click it to manually
type a new name for the current session, which is also used as the suggested filename when you next
save a BFD2 Preset.
Page buttons Preset
indicator
Load
menu
Gain
Save
menu
Help
menu
Control bar:
Features the Load,
Save and Help
menus, the Page
buttons and other
functions.
See section 1:5.
Page buttons:
These change
the contents of
the main inter-
face.
See section 1:5.
Main interface:
This changes
according to
the currently
selected page.
Status bar:
Contains various
displays and rea-
douts, and several
important func-
tional controls.
See section 1:6.
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- 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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