Import
Clicking this button opens the sample import panel. BFD2 allows you to create single-articulation mono or
stereo kit-pieces with multiple velocity layers from a set of one of more samples. See section 2:7 for a full
guide to using this feature.
Load / Cancel buttons
To load the currently selected kit-piece, click the Load button.
You can also double-click any kit-piece in the listing in order to load it.
If you change your mind and decide you don’t want to load a new kit-piece into the slot, click the Cancel button.
Keyboard operation
You can navigate around the available kit-pieces with the cursor (arrow) keys.
The selected kit-piece can be deleted from the database by pressing the DELETE key.
Load the selected kit-piece by pressing the RETURN or ENTER key.
To exit the kit-piece chooser panel without loading anything, press the ESC key.
Preview & Info
The preview and info area displays information about the selected kit-piece, as well as allow-
ing you to rate it and audition its articulations.
Photo/Preview tab
• photo & star rating
The large kit-piece photo is especially useful if you are using the ‘List’ or ‘Details’ views.
Above the photo is the star rating control, with which you can rate the kit-piece by clicking on
one of the stars. This is used as a ‘favourites’ system when the Sorting method is set to ‘Star
rating’: kit-pieces are shown in order of their rating.
Please note that you can also set a kit-piece’s rating when it is loaded, in the kit-piece
Inspector.
Whichever of theses methods you use to rate a kit-piece, the change is applied immediately
to the BFD2 database.
• preview
Each articulation present within the selected kit-piece can be previewed by clicking its Audi-
tion strip. Click towards the left of the strip for lower velocity layers, and towards the right for
higher layers.
Info tab
The info tab in the Inspector shows factory information about the selected kit-piece.
Two information readouts are shown: the top display shows standard information regarding
the manufacturer, name, materials and production date of the kit-piece. The class (type) of
the kit-piece, as well as its size on disk and its location in the data path is also shown.
Below this information, a separate text-box contains additional factory and recording notes.
