FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 2)

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Contents
4 Ch.1 Introduction to BFD Eco
4 1:1 BFD Eco basics
4 Launching BFD Eco
4 1. As a standalone application
4 2. As an instrument plugin within a host
4 BFD Eco’s interface
6 1:2 Loading sounds
6 • Loading a BFD Eco Preset
6 • Loading a kit
6 • Loading a kit-piece
6 1:3 Playing sounds
6 • via MIDI
6 • from the Grooves page
6 • previewing sounds
7 1:4 Default MIDI key assignments
8 Ch.2 BFD Eco audio architecture
8 2:1 Kits, kit-pieces and articulations
9 2:2 Velocity layers and mic channels
9 2:3 Using expansion packs with BFD Eco
10 Ch.3 Loading and saving in BFD Eco
10 3:1 Preset types and kit-pieces
10 Preset pickers
10 Loading Kit-pieces
10 3:2 Other preset types used in BFD Eco
10 Kit-piece presets
10 Key map
10 3:3 Using the Preset pickers
11 3:4 Lock buttons
11 3:5 Using preset browsers
11 Preset listing, Load and Cancel
11 View Size / Sorting
11 Type (kit-piece browser for Percussion slots only)
12 Delete
12 Load from disk (Preset, kit and mixer browsers only)
12 Search
12 Quick-search
12 Sticky
12 Image / Rating
12 Info display
12 Target slot information (kit-piece browser only)
12 Drum Shop (kit-piece browser only)
13 Ch.4 Kit Page and Mixer
13 4:1 Kit page
13 4:2 Mixer
13 Kit-piece channels
13 Ambience channels: OH and Room
13 Aux channels
13 Master channel
13 Mixer visibility
14 Selecting channels
14 Selecting multiple channels
14 4:3 Mixer channel controls
14 Channel image
14 FX1 / FX2 Power
14 Pan (kit-piece channels only)
14 Mute / Solo
14 Level fader / meter
15 Output selector
15 4:4 Channel context menu
15 Load Kit-piece
15 Clear Kit-piece
15 Copy Channel, Paste Channel
15 Reset Channel
15 Clear Channel FX
15 Clear Aux Sends
16 Ch.5 Channel page
16 5:1 Kit-piece preset picker
16 5:2 Inspector
16 Large channel image
16 Tune
16 Dyn (Dynamics)
16 In/Out (kick only)
16 Bot/Top (snare only)
16 Damp
17 Tighten (hihat only)
17 Width (ambience channels only)
17 Distance (ambience channels only)
17 Ambience controls (kit-piece channels only)
17 Flip LR
17 OH/Room Amount
17 Aux sends (kit-piece and ambience channels only)
17 Aux1/Aux2 Send
17 5:3 EQ and FX slots
17 EQ
17 FX slots
17 Power
17 Input meter
18 Mix
18 Effect picker
18 Effect preset picker
18 Tools menu
19 Ch.6 Grooves
19 6:1 Introduction to Grooves
19 6:2 Groove browser
19 Groove list
20 Auto-Preview and individual Preview buttons
20 Category filters
20 Search
20 6:3 Grooves Mode
20 Grooves Mode
20 Off
20 Single
20 Track
21 6:4 Drum Track
21 Ruler
21 Track
21 Scrollbar / Zoom
21 Drum Track markers
21 Position marker (blue)
21 Insert marker (red)
21 Start marker (white)
21 6:5 Adding parts to the Drum Track
22 6:6 Manipulating Parts on the Drum Track
22 Selecting Parts
22 Moving selected Parts
22 Copying selected Parts
22 Changing the size of Parts
22 Track context menu
22 Cut selected Parts