Using drag & drop to export Grooves
You can also drag and drop to export a single or multiple Groove selection either to a MIDI file or to a MIDI or audio instrument
track in your host sequencer.
The same MIDI export preferences described above also apply to drag & drop exports.
To initiate a drag & drop export, select one or more Grooves in the Palette and drag them outside the BFD2 window.
Exporting to MIDI file
If you drop the Groove selection onto a suitable save location – in other words, the desktop or a folder shown in a Windows Ex-
plorer or a MacOSX Finder window – the Grooves are saved as individual MIDI files at the destination.
Exporting to host MIDI track
If you drop the Groove selection onto a MIDI or audio instrument track in your host sequencer while running BFD2 as a plugin,
each Groove is created as a MIDI part sequentially from the point at which they were dropped.
This functionality depends upon the host’s level of support for drag & drop of MIDI files. Some hosts may support drag & drop of
single files but not multiple files, and others do not support drag & drop at all.
Please consult your host’s documentation or technical support services to determine how it reacts to drag & drop of MIDI files.
Export Groove as Audio
The Export Audio function performs an audio export of the current Groove selection. The resulting file is cut to the exact length of
the Groove at the current tempo, with an optional tail definable in the BFD2 Grooves preferences.
If multiple Grooves are selected, a separate set of audio files is saved in a separate folder for each selected Groove.
Export settings
The settings in the Audio Export tab of the Mixer page Utility panel are used for the Record path, file prefix, and file format, while
the record enable buttons on each Mixer channel are used to determine what channels are exported – a separate audio file is
generated for each mixer channel enabled for recording.
If you attempt to initiate an export before a valid export path has been set, an error message appears to inform you of this fact,
and the export operation is cancelled. Set a record path in the Audio export panel in order to successfully perform the audio
export.
If no channels are currently armed in the mixer, BFD2 prompts if you want to arm all channels and continue. If you only want to
arm certain channels for export, you must cancel the operation and arm the relevant channels in the Mixer page before attempt-
ing the export again.
