Document Outline

• chapter 01 INTRODUCING BFD2
  • 1:1 An introduction to BFD2
    • Welcome to BFD2
    • Credits
  • 1:2 BFD2 Architecture
    • How BFD2 works
    • Anatomy of a kit-piece
    • Articulations
    • Mic channels
    • Microphone buses
  • 1:3 Recording notes
    • Personnel
    • Kit preparation and tuning
    • Recording path
    • Microphones
  • 1:4 Introduction to the BFD2 interface
    • Control conventions
    • Interface overview
  • 1:5 Control bar
    • Page buttons
    • Preset indicator
    • Load menu
    • Save menu
    • Gain
    • Help menu
  • 1:6 Status Bar
    • MIDI Log
    • Audio stream indicator
    • MIDI stream indicator
    • RAM indicator
    • CPU and hard disk performance meters
    • Offline switch
    • Controller learn
    • Context info display
    • Transport
    • Rude Solo light
    • Beat light
    • Tempo
    • Time signature
    • Playback position
  • 1:7 Loading BFD2 Presets
  • 1:8 Saving BFD2 Presets
    • Elements saved with Presets
  • 1:9 BFD2 Help functions
    • Context info display
    • Tool-tips
    • Help menu
    • Getting further help with BFD2
• chapter 02: KIT PAGE - building and adjusting your kit
  • 2:1 Kit page overview
  • 2:2 Kit Size
    • 10-piece kit
    • 18-piece kit
    • 32-piece kit
    • Switching kit sizes
  • 2:3 Loading and saving in the Kit page
    • Loading in the Kit page
    • Saving in the Kit page
  • 2:4 Loading and saving kits
    • Loading kits – overview
    • Controls in the kit chooser panel
    • Saving kits
  • 2:5 Kit display and kit-piece slot windows
    • Kit display
    • Kit-Piece Slot windows
  • 2:6 Loading Kit-Pieces
    • Overview
    • Controls in the kit-piece chooser panel
    • Possible problems when loading
    • Building unorthodox kits
  • 2:7 Importing your own sounds into BFD2
    • Sample Import panel
    • Import settings
    • Photo settings
    • Velocity layers
    • Import & Cancel
    • Progress bar
  • 2:8 Kit page toolbar
    • Select
    • Link
    • Note Learn
    • Clear Kit
  • 2:9 Kit-piece inspector
  • Articulation controls
  • Kit-piece bleed controls
  • Advanced kit-piece controls
  • Ambience sends
  • Basic kit-piece controls
  • Kit-piece presets
  • Kit-piece quick-load controls
  • Photo & star rating
  • 2:10 Mini-mixer
    • Mixer
    • Master Dynamics
    • Master Tuning
    • Humanize
  • 2:11 MIDI Note Learn wizard
    • Initializing the MIDI learn wizard
    • Next slot mode
    • Wait mode
• chapter 03: MIXER PAGE - engineering your drum sound
  • 3:1 Mixer page overview
    • How to approach mixing
  • 3:2 Loading and Saving in the Mixer page
    • Loading mixer presets
    • Saving Mixer presets
    • Varying channels between mixer presets
    • Loading/saving channel presets
    • Loading/saving effect presets
  • 3:3 Introduction to BFD2 mixer channels
    • Channel views
    • Types of channel strips in BFD2
  • 3:4 Mixer toolbar and utility panel
    • Reset Mixer
    • Add Aux
    • Remove Aux
    • FX Power
    • Mixer view switches
    • Utility Panel
  • 3:5 Mixer channel controls and indicators
    • Controls/indicators in Regular and FX/Sends views
    • Controls/indicators available in Regular view only
    • Controls/indicators available in FX/Send view only
  • 3:6 Using the mixer
    • Selecting channels
    • Rearranging channels on the mixer
    • Channel processing order
    • Keyboard shortcuts for mixer operation
    • Channel context menu
    • Signal Routing indicators
  • 3:7 Using FX
    • The FX rack
    • Basic FX controls
    • Managing FX with the Effect context menu
    • Swapping and copying FX between slots
  • 3:8 Using Sends and Sidechains
    • Sends panel
    • Send indicators
    • Using sends for parallel processing
    • Using Sidechaining
  • 3:9 Mic tools panel
    • Direct controls
    • Ambience bus controls
    • Master bleed controls
  • 3:10 Mixer preset panel
  • 3:11 Audio Export panel
• chapter 04: GROOVES PAGE overview - an introduction to BFD2’s groove engine
  • 4:1 Introduction
    • Key concepts
    • BFD 1.x users
  • 4:2 Grooves page interface
  • 4:3 Loading and saving in the Groove page
  • 4:4 Undo function
  • 4:5 Transport, tempo and time signature
    • Transport
    • Beat light
    • Tempo
    • Time signature
    • Playback position
  • 4:6 Using the Groove Engine
• chapter 05: GROOVES PAGE part 1 - palettes, grooves and fills
  • 5:1 An Introduction to the Palette
    • MIDI channels and key ranges
    • Palette and info inspectors visibility
  • 5:2 Loading Palettes
    • Palette chooser
    • Loading BFD 1.0 and 1.5 Bundles
  • 5:3 Loading Grooves
    • Using the Groove chooser panel to load Grooves
  • 5:4 Playing Grooves in the Palette
    • Triggering Grooves with MIDI notes
    • Triggering Grooves with Preview buttons
    • Auto-Play and transport controls
  • 5:5 Working with Grooves in the Palette
    • Selecting Grooves
    • Operations on Grooves in the Palette
    • Blending elements of other Grooves in the editor
    • Slot context menu
  • 5:6 Groove Actions
    • Summary of available Groove Actions
    • Start Actions for Grooves and Fills
    • End Actions for Grooves
    • Slot End Actions for Fills
  • 5:7 Importing BFD 1.x Grooves and MIDI files
    • Importing BFD 1.x Grooves and Bundles
    • Importing MIDI files into the Palette
    • MIDI Import panel
  • 5:8 Groove and Palette Info Inspectors
    • Documenting Grooves and Palettes
    • Palette and Info inspector visibility
    • Groove Info Inspector
    • Palette Info inspector
  • 5:9 Saving and exporting Grooves
    • Saving Grooves
    • Exporting Grooves as MIDI
    • Export Groove as Audio
  • 5:10 Saving Palettes
• chapter 06: GROOVES PAGE part 2 - editing, recording and groove FX
  • 6:1 Introduction to the Editor
    • Editor interface overview
    • Other topics covered in this chapter
    • Playing the currently selected Groove
  • 6:2 Editor Grid
    • Kit-piece and Articulation lanes
    • Events
    • Ruler and Groove length
    • Velocity lane
    • View controls
    • Zoom and scroll controls
  • 6:3 Grooves toolbar
    • Left and right mouse button tools
    • Hearing events during editing
    • Select tool
    • Draw tool
    • Erase tool
    • Mute tool
    • Velocity tool
    • Undo button
  • 6:4 Other Editor functions
    • Editor display settings
    • Metronome
    • Grid controls
    • Grid-based destructive processes
    • Edit menu
    • Keyboard shortcuts
  • 6:5 Combining elements of other Grooves
  • 6:6 Recording Grooves via MIDI
    • MIDI Mappings
    • Initiating recording
    • Recording modes
    • Metronome button
    • Record lead-in
  • 6:7 Groove FX panel
    • Show/Hide advanced Groove FX
    • Groove FX power
    • Apply: Groove
    • Apply: All
    • Quantize effect
    • Double/Half time effect
    • Simplify effect
    • Dynamics effect
    • Swing effect
    • Humanize effects
    • Humanize Velocity
    • Humanize Timing
• chapter 07: GROOVES PAGE part 3 - auto-play, drum track and other ways of using grooves
  • 7:1 Auto-Play mode
    • Auto-Play vs. MIDI triggering
    • Auto-Play modes
  • 7:2 Drum Track Introduction
    • Enabling the Drum Track
    • Drum Track synchronization
  • 7:3 Drum Track display
  • 7:4 Working with the Drum Track
    • Adding parts to the Drum Track
    • Manipulating Parts on the Drum Track
    • Part context menu
  • 7:5 Loading, saving and exporting the Drum Track
    • Saving and loading Drum Track contents
    • Exporting the Drum track as MIDI
    • Exporting the Drum track as audio
  • 7:6 Combining playback methods
    • Groove playback and MIDI triggering of articulations
  • 7:7 Using BFD2’s MIDI Out
    • Setting up the MIDI output function
    • Using the MIDI output as a MIDI input in your host
    • Latency of the MIDI Out
• chapter 08: MAPPING PAGE - key and automation mapping
  • 8:1 Overview
    • Loading and saving maps
    • Key mapping view
    • Automation mapping view
    • Switching between views
  • 8:2 Loading in the Mapping page
    • Loading key maps
    • Key map loaded when BFD2 is launched
    • Loading Automation maps
    • Automation map loaded when BFD2 is launched
  • 8:3 Saving in the Mapping page
    • Save Key Map
    • Save Automation Map
    • Save Key + Automation maps
    • Save MIDI Event Log
  • 8:4 Key mapping view
    • Kit-piece listing
    • Keyboard layout and keyrange selector
    • Mapping inspector
    • Clear all keys
    • Key labelling
    • Single-articulation previews
    • Key context menu
    • MIDI event log
    • External MIDI Log
  • 8:5 Working with the key mapper
    • Mapping an articulation to a MIDI key
    • Mapping multiple articulations to neighbouring keys
    • Layering multiple articulations on a single key
    • Special articulations
  • 8:6 Mapping inspector
    • Articulation list
    • Low & High velocity
    • Velocity Curve
    • Delete articulation
    • Variable articulation controls
  • 8:7 Introduction to BFD2 automation
    • Overview
    • MIDI CCs and host automation
    • MIDI note automation
    • Parameter MIDI learn function in the status bar
    • Automation mapping page
    • Multiple mappings
    • Setting a unique MIDI channel for MIDI automation
    • Automation view interface
  • 8:8 Mapping MIDI CCs to BFD2 controls
    • Automation source table in MIDI CC view
    • Mapping indication in BFD2 parameter table
    • Mapping an already-mapped BFD2 parameter
  • 8:9 Mapping MIDI notes to BFD2 controls
    • Automation parameters table in MIDI note view
    • Creating a MIDI note mapping
    • Mapping indication in BFD2 parameter table
    • Mapping an already-mapped BFD2 parameter
  • 8:10 Mapping host automation to BFD2 controls
    • Automation parameters table in host automation view
    • Creating a host automation mapping
    • Mapping indication in BFD2 parameter table
    • Mapping an already-mapped BFD2 parameter
• chapter 09: ELECTRONIC DRUMS AND BFD2
  • 9:1 Intoduction to using electronic kits with BFD2
    • How electronic drumkits work
    • Cross-talk between triggers and zones
    • Double-triggering: setting the Retrigger threshold
    • Latency
  • 9:2 Simple hihat control
    • Advantages and disadvantages of non-variable hihat control
  • 9:3 Variable hihat control
    • Overview
    • Assigning variable tip and variable shank articulations
    • Assigning the hihat height pedal MIDI CC
    • Customizing hihat pedal response
    • All Hihats variable setting
  • 9:4 Other settings related to hihat control
    • Preferences
    • Kit-piece Inspector
  • 9:5 Positional snare control
    • Variable snare controls
  • 9:6 Controlling cymbals
• chapter 10: BFD2 PREFERENCES - customizing BFD2
  • 10:1 Preferences page overview
  • 10:2 Data preferences
    • Preference Options
    • Data Path
    • Startup
  • 10:3 Groove preferences
    • Show Groove Session preferences
    • MIDI Import
    • Editor Preferences
    • Metronome
  • 10:4 Session preferences
    • Session MIDI prefereces
    • Session Playback preferences
  • 10:5 MIDI preferences
    • MIDI Channels
    • MIDI Input Transformations
    • MIDI display
    • Key Mapping preferences
    • MIDI Learn Note Wizard preferences
  • 10:6 Engine preferences
    • Streaming Engine
    • Synth options
    • Fade preferences
    • Detail
  • 10:7 GUI preferences
    • Control behaviour
    • Mixer GUI Options
    • Kit Page
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
• Chapter 11: PROGRAMMING TIPS
  • 11:1 Building the kit
  • 11:2 Using Velocity layers
    • The importance of utilising BFD2’s velocity layers
    • Deploying velocity layers effectively
    • Dynamics controls
  • 11:3 Using articulations effectively
  • 11:3 Damping, tuning and tightening
    • Damping kicks, snares and toms
    • Tightening closed hihats
    • Tuning the kit
  • 11:4 Layering
    • Introduction to layering
    • Simple layering using the Link function
    • Layering individual articulations in the Mapping page
    • Creative and experimental layering
  • 11:5 Programming patterns
    • Drumming fundamentals
    • Transcribe, study and edit existing drum parts
    • Physical interfacing with the computer
• chapter 12: MIXING AND EFFECTS USAGE
  • Overview
    • D.CAM FX
  • 12:1 Mixing basics
    • Mic channel usage
    • Panning
    • Gain levels
    • Approaching EQ and compression
  • 12:2 EQ and filtering
    • EQ
    • Filter
    • Filter Mod
  • 12:3 Dynamics processing
    • Common compression parameters
    • Advanced features in BFD2’s dynamics processors
    • Comp Chan
    • Comp Bus
    • Noise Gate
  • 12:4 Distortion
    • Drive
    • Bit Crusher
  • 12:5 Other effects
    • Gain
    • Delay
    • Flanger
    • Chorus
    • RingMod
    • Frequency shifter
    • TinCanVerb
  • 12:6 Mixing each part of the kit
    • Kicks
    • Snares
    • Hihats
    • Toms
    • Cymbals
  • 12:7 Routing scenarios
    • Creating sub-mixes for processing mic channels together
    • Mic channel separation
    • Creating sends to an external reverb
  • 12:8 External processing
    • Artificial reverb
    • Distortion and re-amping
    • Noise
    • Resampling and re-sequencing