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Special concerns for hihats

Hihats have a few extra fade parameters, as in many ways the hihat has the most complex choking behaviour within a drumkit.

There are 3 separate choke fade types for hihats: pedal notes and closed tip notes have separate choke fade times to the rest of

the hihat’s articulations. It is recommended that the pedal and closed tip choke fade times are kept at low values, while the other

hihat choke fade times (covering all open articulations as well as the closed shank articulation) should be kept at higher values.

The pedal is the only thing that chokes an open hihat when playing a drumkit. When playing BFD2’s sounds from an electronic

drumkit, the pedal note sent out when the pedal is moved down fully is the note used to choke an open hihat.

It has also become conventional for sample-based drumkits to choke open hats with a closed hat note. Therefore, the closed tip

choke fade time is also provided and is set to a low value by default.

Open hihat positions and the closed shank articulation are splashier sounds that react similarly to cymbals when played repeat-

edly in succession.

Default choke fade (base)

Default choke fade (range)

Hihat choke fade (base)

Hihat choke fade (range)

Hihat closed tip choke fade

Hihat pedal choke fade

Tom choke fade (base)

Tom choke fade (range)

Cymbal choke fade (base)

Cymbal choke fade (range)

Cymbal choke fade (manual)

The minimum fade time for all kit-piece slots without indi-

vidual fade times (kicks, snares and percussion).

The maximum fade time for all kit-piece slots without indi-

vidual fade times (kicks, snares, percussion).

The minimum fade time for the hihat slot.

The maximum fade time for the hihat slot.

The choke fade time applied to previous hihat sounds

when a closed tip hihat is triggered.

The choke fade time applied to previous hihat sounds

when a pedal hihat is triggered.

The minimum fade time for the tom slots.

The maximum fade time for the tom slots.

The minimum fade time for cymbal slots.

The maximum fade time for cymbal slots.

The choke fade time for manual choking a cymbal using

the slot choke articulation, or using poly pressure mes-

sages sent out by electronic drumkits.

Detail

The Detail settings allow you to set the level of velocity layer detail for each kit-piece class: kicks, snares, hihats, toms, cymbals

and percussion.

These settings operate relative to the Max velocity layers setting – in other words, the lower detail levels proportionally reduce the

number of layers speciﬁed in this setting. Velocity layers are selected at proportional intervals over the velocity range, so you still

get the beneﬁts of BFD2’s natural variations in kit-piece timbre and dynamics, only with less ‘resolution’ over the velocity range.

Four detail levels are available:

Minimal

Only one velocity layer is loaded for each articulation in the kit-piece class. The Vel to Amp setting for each loaded articulation is

automatically set to +100%, in order to scale the volume over the velocity range.

Small

BFD2 loads approximately a quarter of the ‘max velocity layers’ setting for each articulation in the kit-piece class.

Medium

Approximately half of the max velocity layers setting are loaded for each articulation in the kit-piece class.

Large

The maximum possible amount of layers, as speciﬁed by the max velocity layers setting, are loaded for each articulation in the

kit-piece class.

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