FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 13)

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Ch.4 Kit Page and Mixer
4:1 Kit page
The Kit page, shown when the Kit page button is active, features a visual representation of the BFD Eco kit layout. All 12 kit-piece channels are
represented on the display.
Click the drum heads or the cymbals/percussion to preview the main articulation of the kit-piece at a velocity of 100. You can also ALT-click
kit-piece channel images in the mixer for velocity-sensitive previews.
Kit page
display – click
a kit-piece to
audition it
Mixer
4:2 Mixer
BFD Eco’s mixer features several types of channels:
Kit-piece channels
• Mono channels that contain the direct mic signals from a kit-piece.
Kit-piece channels are also kit-piece slots – kit-pieces are loaded into them. Double-click a kit-piece channel’s image to bring up the kit-piece
browser, or right-click (or CTRL-click on Mac) on a channel and use the
Load Kit-piece function in the channel context menu.
Ambience channels: OH and Room
• Stereo channels that feature the OH and Room signals from all kit-pieces.
The level of each kit-piece in the ambience channels is set by its
OH Send and Room Send controls (located in the Channel page’s inspector).
By default these are set to send the natural level of all kit-pieces to the ambience channels, which would be the case when recording a real
drummer playing a kit in a room.
Aux channels
The Aux1 and Aux2 channels are provided so that you can process several signals simultaneously. Entire channels can be routed to an aux
(using the channel’s
Output selector), or variable amounts of channels can be routed using the Aux1 / Aux2 Send controls (in the Channel
page inspector).
Master channel
The Master channel represents the main stereo output (output 1-2) of BFD Eco. In the default mixer setup, all other mixer channels are routed to
the Master, meaning they will all be heard in the main stereo output.
When using the plugin version of BFD Eco, channels can be routed to their own output instead of the Master channel.
In the standalone version, all signals are routed to the Master channel, regardless of whether the output of any channels are routed to their direct
outs.
Mixer visibility
The entire mixer can always be seen when using in the Kit, Channel or Grooves pages. However, if you are using the Key Map panel, the
ambience, aux and Master channels are not visible.