Manual

10:5 MIDI preferences
MIDI Channels
Show Session MIDI
There are a number of song-based preferences concerning the behaviour of the Groove engine. Click the Show MIDI Song Settings
button to view and edit these Preferences.
Song preferences are saved with a BFD2 program. Therefore, they can be set independently for each BFD2 session.
Song preferences allow you to save a set of defaults to use as initial settings when BFD2 is launched. They can be changed on a
per-session basis while retaining the defaults unless they are specifically changed and re-saved.
MIDI Input Transformations
Auto pedal event
This setting is to be used when using variable hihat control with electronic drum brains which do not send out a pedal (foot-chick)
note automatically when the hihat pedal is closed.
When enabled, BFD2 generates and play a pedal note whenever the hihat height MIDI CC reaches the first value within the
‘closed zone’ defined with the Variable zone slider for the Variable Tip articulation (see section 9:3).
If your drum brain sends out a pedal note when the hihat pedal is fully depressed (D-Drum and V-Drum brains fall into this category),
then you should disable this setting.
Auto splash event
When using an electronic drumkit with variable hihat controller, enabling this setting causes BFD2 to generate a hihat splash
sound when the hihat pedal is closed and opened in very quick succession.
Choke with aftertouch
Enable this option in order to make BFD respond to polyphonic pressure (aftertouch) signals for choking cymbals. This method of
cymbal choking is commonly implemented in electronic drum brains such as those in V-Drum and D-Drum systems.
MIDI display
-2 octave naming
-1 octave naming
Some sequencers and MIDI controller devices use an octave numbering system which begins at C-2, rather than C0, while some
others use C-1 as the lowest key..
These settings allow you to set the note numbering convention according to your own preference. The -2 octave numbering setting
is enabled by default due to the fact that it seems to be the most common system in the major sequencing hosts.
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