Manual

2:10 Mini-mixer
The mini-mixer allows you to blend between the
ambience channels and the direct master bus,
as well as offering global control over tuning,
dynamics and humanization for the kit.
Please note that if you need to control the overall
volume of BFD2, the easiest way to do so is
by using the BFD2 main volume on the Control
bar – see section 1:2 for details.
Mixer
The mini-mixer provides simple mixing control
to let you blend the direct and ambience channels
without having to switch to the Mixer view.
Direct master bus
The Direct master bus consists of all kit-piece’s direct mic channels. This mic bus does not have a dedicated channel on the main
BFD2 mixer, although you can easily set one up by creating an Aux channel and routing the direct mic channels for all kit-pieces
to it.
The Direct master level can, however, be accessed on the Mic tools panel, part of the Mixer page Utility panel.
Ambience channels
The three Ambience channel level parameters are for the Overhead, Room and Amb3 ambience channels. These are shortcuts
to the actual ambience channels that exist in the main Mixer page. Note that, unlike the Direct fader, they do not represent the
‘virtual’ mic buses for ambience types.
Since these are shortcuts to the main mixer’s ambience channels, they do not affect ambience signals that have been custom
routed to aux channels.
For example, if you route a kit-piece’s Room signal to an aux channel, the Room fader in the Mini-mixer does not affect this signal.
Mini-mixer controls
Level fader
This fader sets the gain of the channel. It includes momentary peak level indicators as well as red clip indicators – click these to
clear their status.
Meter
The stereo meters provide visual feedback for the level of each channel.
Mute & Solo
Each channel can be muted or soloed. These mute and solo buttons are extensions to the Mixer page’s mute and solo controls,
and operate in the same domain. For example, soloing the Direct channel in the Mini-mixer results in soloing all direct channels in
the main BFD2 mixer.
Master Dynamics
The Master Dynamics control adjusts the dynamics of the whole kit, relative to the individual kit-piece Dynamics controls in the
kit-piece inspector. This control effectively makes the ‘drummer’ play the whole kit more quietly or more loudly.
Master Tuning
This control adjusts the tuning of the whole kit, relative to the individual kit-piece Tune controls in the kit-piece inspector. This
control allows you to radically alter the sound of the whole kit very easily.
Humanize
The Humanize control defines the maximum amount of random velocity variation (higher or lower than the original velocity) that
can be applied to events in order to inject a more ‘humanized’ feel and make drum parts sound less mechanical. This is because
a real drummer doesn’t play the kit with exactly the same force all the time.
Do not confuse this control with the Humanize Velocity effect in the Groove FX, which applies only to Grooves. The Humanize
control in the Kit page is applied only to direct MIDI triggering of articulations.
This control does not affect articulations whose Vel RND parameter is set to 0.
Master dynamics,
Master tune and
Humanize controls
Mixer