FXpansion BFD2 Manual - Manual (Page 43)

Kit-piece bleed controls
In BFD2, bleed is the sound of other kit-pieces picked up by the kick 1 and
snare 1 direct mics. In real-world situations, bleed occurs across all direct
mics. For various reasons, bleed only exists within BFD2 in the kick and snare
mic channels.
For further details on bleed, please see sections 1:2, 3:3, and 12:1.
Bleed destination
The Bleed destination buttons allow you to route the kick and snare bleed for the kit-piece in one of three ways:
On
Bleed is routed as normal to the kick 1 and snare 1 mixer channels.
Direct
The kit-piece’s bleed is routed to its primary direct mic channel. Therefore, there would be no bleed from the kit-piece in the kick1
and snare1 mic channels, except their own respective bleed signals.
Off
The kit-piece’s bleed is turned off completely.
Bleed trim
You can adjust the level of the kit-piece’s bleed signals with this control.
Changing overall bleed levels
You can change overall bleed levels by using the master bleed controls in the Mic Tools panel, part of the Mixer page’s Utility
panel.
Articulation controls
BFD2 allows you to set up a number of parameters for each articulation in the
selected kit-piece.
Firstly, select the articulation that you want to tweak using the selector, or
select ‘All’ in order to affect all articulations in the selected kit-piece.
Articulation selector
The Articulation selector drop-down menu is used to select which articulation
in the current kit-piece to adjust. If you want to edit settings for all articulations
in the kit-piece, select ‘All’ in the menu.
Audition strip
The Audition strip plays the selected articulation when clicked. The velocity
of the audition depends on where the strip is clicked – low velocity layers are
played towards the left of the strip, with velocity increasing towards the right.
With ‘All’ specified in the selector, a preview of the main articulation is played.
Artic Trim
With the Artic Trim control, you can adjust individual articulations between
levels of -oo to +12dB. This is extremely useful when you want to adjust the
relative levels of different open and closed hihat articulations, for example.
The default is 0 dB.
Vel to Amp
This setting makes the amplitude of an articulation quieter or louder depending on the incoming note velocity. This occurs in addi-
tion to the different velocity layer samples being played over the velocity range.
Settings range from -100% to 100%. This parameter can have positive and negative values for increases and decreases in ampli-
tude with higher velocities. When it is set to 0%, there is no amplitude-scaling on BFD2’s sounds – they are played back exactly
as they exist on disk.
High positive settings of this parameter result in BFD2 responding more like conventional sample-sets. It is very useful if you are
using a small number of velocity layers in order to save on system resources, as it can smooth out the dynamic ‘resolution’ over
the velocity range.
Negative settings are provided for creative experimentation.
Vel to Amp is always set to +100% when using a ‘minimal’ detail setting for any kit-piece – with this detail setting, only 1 velocity
layer is in use for each articulation.
Articulation
selector