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Velocity lane
The velocity lane underneath the Ruler shows event velocities as vertical stalks, with higher stalks denoting high velocity events,
while lower velocity events are represented by shorter stalks.
You can draw directly onto the velocity lane in order to ‘paint’ in velocity changes quickly.
If you hold down the ALT key you can draw lines in the velocity lane,
which is very useful programming velocity ‘ramps’.
If one or more events are selected, the velocity stalks of selected
events are highlighted, with others greyed out.
With a selection active, drawing on the Velocity lane only affects
selected events.
Velocity show/hide
This button toggles the Velocity lane in the display. If you don’t need
the functionality of the velocity lane, instead just relying on the shad-
ing of events to discern their velocity, you can hide the Velocity lane to achieve more space for the Editor Grid. As BFD2 provides
the Velocity tool for adjusting velocities of individual events, the Velocity lane is not essential for many operations.
View controls
View selector
You can choose which kit-pieces appear in the Editor by using the View Selector.
Artics
This is the default view mode. In this mode, only articulations used in the Groove are shown
in the Editor. This is the most compact view, and saves having to scroll through a large
number of event lanes when editing.
If you are using this mode and require a kit-piece articulation which hasn’t yet been used in the Groove, switch to ‘Groove’ or ‘Kit’
view to make your initial edits, and then switch back to ‘Artics’ view.
Groove
When this view is selected, only the kit-pieces used in the current Groove are shown.
If you are using this mode and require a kit-piece that hasn’t yet been used in the Groove, switch to ‘Kit’ or ‘All’ view to make your
initial edits, and then switch back to ‘Groove’ view.
Kit
Selecting ‘Kit’ shows all kit-pieces which have actually been loaded into their slots.
All
When ‘All’ is selected, all 32 available kit-piece slots are represented in the Editor, regardless of whether they are loaded.
It is not especially recommended to edit Grooves in this way with required kit-pieces not loaded, as it does not show the possible
articulations that might be available when a kit-piece is loaded into an unused slot. However, it is provided so that you can double-
click the greyed-out kit-piece name to launch the kit-piece chooser for that slot, saving you from having to switch to the Kit page to
load a kit-piece.
Expand All/Collapse All
The Expand All and Collapse All buttons offer a quick way of expanding and collapsing all kit-
pieces to show or hide their individual articulation lanes.
Velocity
lane
Velocity
show/hide
