Kit-Piece Slot windows
Each available kit-piece slot window in the display shares some common features.
Kit Display highlight
When the mouse cursor is moved over any slot window, its corresponding part of the kit display is highlighted.
Selecting a kit-piece
When using the Select tool, clicking on a kit-piece slot selects it, and its settings are displayed in the kit-piece inspector.
If you enable the Select triggers preview setting in the BFD2 GUI preferences, clicking a kit-piece slot window to select it also
results in an audition being heard.
Load kit-piece
The Load button opens the kit-piece chooser panel.
You can also double-click anywhere on the slot in order to open the chooser panel.
See section 2:6 for more details on loading kit-pieces.
Clear kit-piece
This button removes any kit-piece currently loaded into the slot.
Image
The main part of the slot window shows a photo of the loaded kit-piece. If the slot is empty, a generic grey picture of the sug-
gested kit-piece type is shown.
Trim
The trim control is a global volume control for the kit-piece. Adjusting it affects the level of all the kit-piece’s mic channels equally.
You can think of it as a ‘pre’ volume control - it sets the level of the kit-piece at the start of the signal path, before any routing and
mixing features are applied.
This control is duplicated in the kit-piece inspector.
Direct pan
The pan control sets the pan position of the kit-piece within the direct master bus. It does not affect the stereo position of the kit-
piece in its ambience channels.
This control is duplicated in the kit-piece inspector, and on the primary direct channel for the kit-piece in the Mixer page.
Mute & Solo
With these buttons, you can mute and solo all mic channels for each kit-piece.
These controls are duplicated in the kit-piece inspector.
Kit-piece audition
When a kit-piece is loaded into the slot, ALT-clicking anywhere in the slot plays an audio preview of the main articulation in the kit-
piece (hit, or closed tip for hihats) at a velocity of 95. The Select tool must be enabled in the toolbar for this to occur.
If you need to preview individual articulations at variable velocities, use the Articulation preview controls in the Kit-Piece Inspector.
If you prefer, this audition function can operate in a similar way to the articulation Audition strip, although restricted to the main
articulation only. Enable the Left-right velocity-scaled preview support setting in the BFD2 GUI preferences if you want the audi-
tion to work in this way.
Slot number
Image
Selected slot
Trim
Mute &
Solo
Direct
Pan
Clear
kit-piece
Load kit-piece
