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10:4 Session preferences
Session preferences are settings that are not needed often enough to merit a place on the main interface, but which are useful to
save on a session-by-session basis.
If you want any settings in this category to be applied when BFD2 is launched, you need to create a suitable startup preset with
BFD2 set up the way you want it. To do so, proceed as follows:
1. set BFD2’s parameters as you want them
2. set up BFD2’s session preferences as desired
3. save a BFD2 preset
4. go to the Data category in the Preferences page
5. set the BFD2 preset you just saved as the startup preset
Session MIDI prefereces
Reset to factory default values
Clicking this button reverts to the factory default settings for
Session MIDI preferences.
Notes MIDI channel
Grooves MIDI channel
Controller MIDI channel
These settings specify the MIDI channels on which BFD2 re-
ceives MIDI data for the following purposes:
• triggering articulations with MIDI notes
• playing Grooves with MIDI notes
• automating BFD2 controls with MIDI CCs and MIDI notes
By default, all of these are set to Omni, which means that articulation keymaps, Groove notes and MIDI automation receive on all
MIDI channels.
It is very likely that you will start to run out of MIDI notes in particular if you have large, complex kits, lots of Grooves or lots of
MIDI note automation. If this is the case, you can make BFD2 receive MIDI data on different channels for each of these purposes.
If you want to change any of these 3 settings, it is not advisable to leave any others with an Omni setting. You should set each to
a specific MIDI channel, even if you want two of them to share a channel.
Send MIDI Out
MIDI Out channel
These settings relate to BFD2’s MIDI Out function, which outputs events from the Groove engine (see section 7:7 for further
details of using this feature).
