FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 21)

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6:4 Drum Track
The Drum Track lets you build a drum part for a full song by dragging Grooves from the browser onto a timeline.
Ruler
Scrollbar /
zoom
Track Parts
Ruler
The Ruler represents the Drum Track’s timeline in bars and beats.
Track
Grooves are added as Parts onto the Track timeline using drag & drop (see section 6:5).
Scrollbar / Zoom
The Zoom buttons at the bottom-right of the Drum Track control its horizontal zoom level. You can also use the mousewheel while holding down
the ALT key to change the zoom level. If the zoom level results in part of the Drum Track not being visible, use the Scrollbar to change the visible
area.
Drum Track markers
Position marker (blue)
Indicates the current playback position while the Drum Track is playing back.
Click in the
Ruler (outside the loop indicator if it is active) to set the marker’s position – if the Drum Track is currently playing, the playback
position ‘jumps’ to this new position. This also ‘disconnects’ host sync while running BFD Eco as a plugin. Stop and start the host transport to
‘reconnect’ synchronization.
Insert marker (red)
Indicates the insertion point when adding a Groove to the Drum Track and when moving or copying parts within it.
Its position also specifies the point at which Parts are split, when using the
Split Part at Marker function in the Track context menu.
Changing the insert marker position
To change the position of the Insert marker, click the desired position on the Track.
Start marker (white)
• Standalone mode or host transport stopped
The white start marker indicates the point in the Drum Track to which the position marker is sent when using the Return to start button on the
transport.
The next time the BFD Eco transport is started, playback starts from the
Start marker point. You can press the Return to start button during
playback, which causes the play position to jump to the start marker immediately.
• Host transport started
The Drum Track playback position always starts in sync with the host position.
You can click the
Stop or Return to start buttons on BFD Eco’s transport during playback in order to ‘disconnect’ the synchronization between
host and plugin. To re-establish host synchronization, stop and restart your host transport.
Changing the Start marker position
To change the position of the Start marker, click in the Ruler while holding down the ALT key.
If you click twice in the Ruler, the first click sets the blue position marker and the second click sets the white start marker.
6:5 Adding parts to the Drum Track
To add a Part to the Drum Track, drag and drop any Groove from the browser to the desired position in the Drum Track. The insertion point is
shown by the red
Insert marker. Once a Groove has been dropped onto the Track, it is referred to as a Part.
1. Drag a Groove from the browser
over the Drum Track
2. The position at which it will appear
is indicated by the red Insert
marker
3. Drop the Groove to add it as a Part
at the Insert marker position
You cannot layer multiple Parts on top of each other – only one Part can be playing on the Drum Track at once. If you require more complex
sequencing, you must use MIDI tracks in your host to send events to BFD Eco. You can drag & drop Grooves to host MIDI tracks – see section
6:9.