FXpansion BFD2 Manual - Manual (Page 15)

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Load menu
Clicking the Load button shows a menu allowing you to load various elements into BFD2. The Load menu is partly context-
dependent, varying according to whichever Page is currently in view. The menu has 3 sections:
1. BFD2 Preset
A Preset is a snapshot of the entire state of BFD. The Preset loader panel allows you to selectively load different elements of
Presets. For a full guide to loading Presets, please see the ‘Loading presets’ section later in this chapter.
2. Page-dependent elements
Depending on which Page is currently in view, the next part of the menu shows the relevant Load items – the exception is the
Preferences Page, which does not require any loading functions.
3. Commonly used elements
The next section of the menu allows you to load commonly needed elements from Pages other than that currently in view.
The Load menu allows you to load the following elements into BFD2:
• BFD2 presets
• Kits
• Mixer presets
• Palettes
• Grooves
• MIDI keymap
• Automation map – MIDI CC, note and host automation assignments
Save menu
Click the Save button in order to display the Save menu. The save menu is structured in exactly the same way as the Load
menu.
The menu allows you to save the following:
• BFD2 preset
• Kit
• Kit-piece preset
• Mixer preset
• Groove
• Groove Palette
• MIDI keymap
• Automation map – MIDI CC, note and host automation assignments
• Keymap + Automation map
• MIDI event log contents
Groove engine export functions
When in the Groove page, the save menu also gives you access to the groove engine’s export functions.
• Export Groove MIDI
• Export Groove Audio
• Export Track MIDI
• Export Track Audio
Gain
Because it is possible to route audio out of 32 channels when running as a plugin within a host, BFD2 includes an overall
plugin gain control which affects the level of all channels simultaneously.
Do not confuse this control with the Master channel level – the Master channel in the BFD2 mixer is simply a special Aux channel
to which all channels are routed by default, set to outputs 1 & 2 – is all you need if you want to process all BFD2 sounds with the
internal FX and simply output a stereo pair. If this is all that you need, you can use the Master channel level to control the overall
volume of BFD2.
If, on the other hand, you set up more than a stereo output, you can use the Gain control to adjust the volume of all BFD2’s chan-
nels together.
Help menu
See section 1:9 for details of the Help menu.