FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 6)

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1:2 Loading sounds
Once you’ve launched BFD Eco and familiarised yourself with its interface, you’re ready to load
some sounds. See chapter 3 for more detailed information about the various preset types.
• Loading a BFD Eco Preset
Click on the Preset picker drop-down – you can either click on any Preset shown in the menu, or
click on
Load... to open the Preset browser. Double-click on any Preset in the browser listing to
load it!
A Preset contains information about the entire state of BFD Eco: the kit itself, kit-piece
adjustments like tuning and damping, mixer and EQ/FX settings, and also the contents of the
Grooves page – try loading one of the “Drum Track...” presets, which each contain an example
drum sequence, and start the BFD Eco transport (or your host’s transport when using the BFD
Eco plugin).
• Loading a kit
Click on the kit picker drop-down – you can either click on any kit shown in the menu, or click on
Load... to open the kit browser. Double-click on any kit in the listing to load it.
This results in loading the kit – a new configuration of kit-pieces with adjustments like tuning and
damping and so on. The state of the mixer and the Grooves page is unchanged.
Double-click channel
image to load kit-piece
OR
Right-click on the channel
and click ‘Load Kit-piece’
• Loading a kit-piece
To load an individual kit-piece such as a snare, double-click on the Snare channel
image to open the kit-piece browser. You can also right-click anywhere on the Snare
channel and click on
Load Kit-piece. Double-click on any snare in the listing in order
to load it.
The new snare replaces the previous snare. Additional adjustments like tuning and
damping are unchanged.
1:3 Playing sounds
Once you’ve loaded some sounds, they can be played using any of the following methods:
• via MIDI
You can play notes via a MIDI keyboard, or from a sequence in your host when running BFD Eco as a plugin. Section 1:4 shows the default MIDI
note assignments for BFD Eco’s articulations.
• from the Grooves page
The built-in Groove engine allows you to play BFD Eco’s sounds with its built-in library of expressive drum patterns. Click on a Groove in the
Groove page’s browser to hear it through the currently loaded sounds.
• previewing sounds
You can also preview kit-pieces by clicking on them in the Kit page display, or by ALT-clicking on a kit-piece channel image in the mixer.