Instruction Manual

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Contents
6 chapter 01: INTRODUCING BFD2
6 1:1 An introduction to BFD2
6 Welcome to BFD2
6 Credits
7 1:2 BFD2 Architecture
7 How BFD2 works
7 Anatomy of a kit-piece
8 Articulations
8 Mic channels
10 Microphone buses
11 1:3 Recording notes
11 Personnel
11 Kit preparation and tuning
11 Recording path
12 Microphones
13 1:4 Introduction to the BFD2 interface
13 Control conventions
14 Interface overview
14 1:5 Control bar
14 Page buttons
14 Preset indicator
15 Load menu
15 Save menu
15 Gain
15 Help menu
16 1:6 Status Bar
16 MIDI Log
16 Audio stream indicator
16 MIDI stream indicator
16 RAM indicator
16 CPU and hard disk performance meters
16 Offline switch
17 Controller learn
17 Context info display
17 Transport
18 Rude Solo light
18 Beat light
18 Tempo
18 Time signature
18 Playback position
19 1:7 Loading BFD2 Presets
21 1:8 Saving BFD2 Presets
21 Elements saved with Presets
22 1:9 BFD2 Help functions
22 Context info display
22 Tool-tips
22 Help menu
23 Getting further help with BFD2
24 chapter 02: KIT PAGE
building and adjusting your kit
24 2:1 Kit page overview
25 2:2 Kit Size
25 10-piece kit
25 18-piece kit
26 32-piece kit
26 Switching kit sizes
27 2:3 Loading and saving in the Kit page
27 Loading in the Kit page
27 Saving in the Kit page
28 2:4 Loading and saving kits
28 Loading kits – overview
28 Controls in the kit chooser panel
30 Saving kits
31 2:5 Kit display and kit-piece slot windows
31 Kit display
32 Kit-Piece Slot windows
33 2:6 Loading Kit-Pieces
33 Overview
33 Controls in the kit-piece chooser panel
36 Possible problems when loading
36 Building unorthodox kits
37 2:7 Importing your own sounds into BFD2
37 Sample Import panel
37 Import settings
38 Photo settings
38 Velocity layers
38 Import & Cancel
38 Progress bar
39 2:8 Kit page toolbar
39 Select
39 Link
39 Note Learn
39 Clear Kit
40 2:9 Kit-piece inspector
40 Photo & star rating
40 Kit-piece quick-load controls
40 Kit-piece presets
41 Basic kit-piece controls
42 Ambience sends
42 Advanced kit-piece controls
43 Kit-piece bleed controls
43 Articulation controls
45 2:10 Mini-mixer
45 Mixer
45 Master Dynamics
45 Master Tuning
45 Humanize
46 2:11 MIDI Note Learn wizard
46 Initializing the MIDI learn wizard
47 Next slot mode
47 Wait mode
48 chapter 03: MIXER PAGE
engineering your drum sound
48 3:1 Mixer page overview
48 How to approach mixing
49 3:2 Loading and Saving in the Mixer page
49 Loading mixer presets
51 Saving Mixer presets
51 Varying channels between mixer presets
51 Loading/saving channel presets
51 Loading/saving effect presets
52 3:3 Introduction to BFD2 mixer channels
52 Channel views
52 Types of channel strips in BFD2
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