FXpansion BFD Premium Acoustic Drum Module - Manual (Page 48)

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THE GROOVE LIBRARIAN
The BFD Groove Librarian is an integrated auto-accompaniment module, designed to
provide a means of playing patterns through BFD’s sounds without any MIDI input from
an external MIDI controller, or from a host sequencer.
To open the Groove Librarian, click the top bar of BFD’s plugin window. To close it again,
click on the bottom or top bars of the Groove Librarian drop-down panel.
Overview of Groove Librarian-related functions
• Groove and Fill Banks and Browsers: see section 8:1
• Kit-Piece Note Filters & Half-Time buttons: see section 8:6
• Auto-Repeat Groove buttons: see section 8:7
• Quantization, Humanize Velocity and Humanize Timing panels: see section 8:10
• Play Options panel: see section 9:2
• Panic Button and Tempo controls: see section 11:1
Please read this chapter thoroughly to fully understand the Groove Librarian, and any
additional sections detailed above for related functions.
HTML Help
Auto Repeat Groove buttons
Panic button: MIDI reset
Play Options panel
Quantization panel
Humanize Velocity panel
Humanize Timing panel
Tempo controls
Kit-Piece Note Filters & Half-Time buttons
Fill Browser
Groove Browser Groove and Fill Banks