FXpansion BFD2 Manual - Manual (Page 79)

Audition Preview buttons
When a Palette in the listing is
expanded to show its constituent
Grooves by clicking the expand/
collapse button to its left, an extra
column appears in the listing, con-
taining an audition preview button
for each Groove in the Palette.
These buttons allow you to audi-
tion a Palette’s Grooves before
loading it.
Click a Groove’s audition preview
button to start auditioning it. Click
the button again to stop the audi-
tion, or click another Groove’s
audition preview button.
Auditioned grooves play at the current tempo through currently loaded kit-pieces. Note that if the previewed Groove contains
events for kit-pieces that are not loaded, they do not produce any sound. If no kit-pieces are loaded at all, previewing the Groove
results in no sound.
Only one Groove can be previewed at any one time. If you click another Groove’s audition preview button before the current
Groove has finished playing, the current Groove stops playing immediately and the new one begins.
Whether or not polyphonic mode is enabled in the BFD2 preferences, audition previews cause BFD2 to stop playing any other
Grooves that may already be loaded and playing in the Groove engine.
The Hold mouse button to preview setting in the BFD2 Grooves preferences results in auditions only playing back while the
mouse button is held down on the audition preview buttons.
Auto-preview
The Auto-preview function allows you to automatically preview the selected Groove, looped and synchro-
nized to your host tempo and transport.
Again, if any Grooves are already loaded and playing in BFD2, they are muted when previewing a Groove in the Palette chooser.
Palette and Groove info columns
The following information is shown in columns for each Palette:
• Name
• BPM (original tempo)
• Time Sig (original time signature)
• Bars (length in bars)
• Genre
• Rating
• Library
You can sort Palettes in the listing by name, tempo or rating by clicking the relevant column header.
Click a header again to toggle between ascending and descending arrangement.
These information categories are also shown for a Palette’s constituent Grooves if it is expanded by clicking the expand/collapse
button to its left. Note that you can only sort Palettes by clicking the Name, Tempo and Rating column headers.
Audition preview buttons