FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 19)

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Ch.6 Grooves
6:1 Introduction to Grooves
The Grooves page is shown when the Grooves button is active, and provides realistic drum patterns (Grooves) in a variety of genres to play
using the BFD Eco sounds.
Additional
Drum Track
controls
Grooves Mode
Groove
browser
Groove FX
Drum Track
Transport
controls
The Grooves page features the following main areas:
• Groove browser (see section 6:2)
• Grooves Mode
• Drum Track (see sections 6:3 to 6:5)
• Additional controls and Groove FX (see section 6:6 and 6:7)
The BFD Eco transport controls are very important when using the Grooves page – see chapter 7 for details of these controls.
Using Grooves
Grooves can be used in the following ways:
Single mode:
Single Grooves in the browser can be previewed in sync with your host (see section 6:3)
Track mode: Drag & drop Grooves to the built-in Drum Track to create a sequence of Grooves (see section 6:4)
Drag+drop to host/file: Drag & drop Grooves to a MIDI track in your host which is routed to BFD Eco (see section 6:9)
6:2 Groove browser
The Groove browser lets you find and audition Grooves. They can then be dragged to the Drum Track, exported to your host or you can choose
to simply loop the selected Groove by using ‘Single’
Grooves Mode.
Groove
list
Auto-
preview
Category
filters
Preview
buttons
Groove list
All available Grooves are shown in the list. There are a number of columns which display extra information about each Groove. The list can be
sorted by the ‘Name’ or ‘BPM’ columns (the other columns represent time signature and length in bars).