4:2 Grooves page interface
1. Palette (chapter 5)
You can have up to 128 Grooves loaded in memory at any one time. Each of these must be assigned to a slot in the Palette, each
of which also corresponds to a MIDI key.
Each slot in the Palette can be set as a Fill and has its own definable behaviour regarding how it starts and what happens when it
ends. Grooves can be triggered via MIDI or using BFD2’s Auto-Play features.
2. Editor and toolbar (chapter 6)
The Editor lets you modify Grooves or write new ones from scratch, either by drawing and manipulating notes with the mouse, or
by recording live via MIDI. This editing environment is fully featured and rivals major sequencing hosts’ MIDI editors.
The toolbar includes the Undo button, which allows you to undo any operation in the Grooves page.
3. Groove FX (section 6:7)
BFD2 provides a comprehensive set of non-destructive quantization and humanization effects, which are applied to the output of
the Groove engine.
They can also be destructively applied to the currently selected Groove or all Grooves in the Palette.
4. Auto-Play controls and Drum Track (chapter 7)
When using BFD2 as a plugin in a host, the Auto-Play functions provide a way of automatically starting playback of the Groove
engine in sync with the host transport.
You can choose to start playback of a random Groove, specific Groove, the currently selected Groove in the Palette, or the BFD2
Drum Track.
The Drum Track is an integrated timeline on which to lay out a sequence of Grooves, in order to create a complete drumming
performance.
5. Info inspectors (section 5:8)
The Groove and Palette Info inspectors allow you to view details about the currently selected Groove and the entire current Pal-
ette.
By default, they are hidden – they can be viewed by clicking the Show Inspectors button below the Palette.
You can also rate Grooves and Palettes in these Info Inspectors, so that they can be sorted by ‘Star rating’ in the chooser panels,
in order to make your favourite Grooves easier to find.
6. Transport (section 4:5)
The transport controls are used in numerous Grooves page operations, from playing Grooves in Auto-Play mode, to recording
Groove events live via MIDI input.
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