FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 11)

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3:4 Lock buttons
Lock buttons exist for the Kit, Mixer, Grooves and Key/MIDI (key map and MIDI CC assignments made in Learn mode). Enabling any of these
buttons locks the relevant parts of BFD Eco, so that they remain unaffected when you Load... or Clear... a BFD Eco Preset.
The Key/MIDI Lock button is enabled by default when BFD Eco is launched.
3:5 Using preset browsers
A preset browser appears when you use the Load... function on any preset picker (for the Preset, kit, mixer or key map), or when you use the
Load Kit-piece function in the channel context menu (or double-click a kit-piece channel image).
Delete
Load
from
disk
Quick-
search
Sticky
Image /
Rating
Info
display
Preset listing, Load and Cancel
The main part of the browser is the preset listing. Click a preset in the listing to select it, and click the Load button to load it.
You can also double-click any preset in order to load it.
To exit the browser without loading a preset, click the
Cancel button.
Previewing kit-pieces in-context (kit-piece browser only)
If you are using the kit-piece browser, selecting a kit-piece in the listing results in it being previewed ‘in-context’ – any MIDI messages for the kit-
piece that are sent to BFD Eco result in triggering the selected kit-piece in the browser listing.
View Size / Sorting
The View Size drop-down menu sets the size of images shown in the browser listing. The ‘List’ and ‘Details’ settings are text-only, and are slightly
faster because of the lack of kit-piece images. The default setting is ‘Standard’.
The
Sorting drop-down menu sorts items in the listing by ‘Name’ or ‘Star Rating’ (the default setting is ‘Name’). In the kit-piece browser, this drop-
down menu also contains ‘Manufacturer’, ‘Artic Count’ (the number of articulations present within the kit-piece), and ‘Disk Size’ (the size of the
kit-piece on disk, which is an indication of how much RAM it uses when loaded).
Rating presets or kit-pieces and sorting them by ‘Star Rating’ can make it easier to find your favourites.
These View Size and Sorting settings are recalled between sessions. Their state is stored in the preferences – therefore, they are reset if you
re-initialize your preferences.
Type (kit-piece browser for Percussion slots only)
Specifies the type of kit-piece to browse and load for Perc1, Perc2 and Perc3 (Percussion) slots – toms,
cymbals or percussion can be browsed and loaded into these slots.
Note that when using cymbals and toms in Percussion slots, only the first two articulations are available,
mapped to the slots’ Hit and Alt articulations. This typically means that you cannot use the Edge sounds
of cymbals that feature Hit, Bell and Edge articulations. Also, you cannot use rim articulations when using
toms from expansion packs that contain them.