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Mute & Solo All channels have a mute and solo button. Mute and Solo behaviour: Implied and Hard Mute/Solo BFD2’s mixer features very flexible mute and solo behaviour. It features two types of mute and solo states: implied and hard. • Engaging only the solo button on a channel results in implied mutes on all other channels: mutes are shown elsewhere, but the mute state of those channels is only implied. When the solo button is disengaged, the implied mutes on the other non-soloed channels are also disengaged. • Implied solos are generated on channels contributing signals to the soloed channel, or in its subsequent signal path. They are shown in a ‘half-lit’ state. • Engaging only the mute button on a channel results in only that channel being hard muted (it is in an actual muted state) • Engaging both mute and solo buttons on a channel results in the mute overriding the solo. Both buttons are lit to show that the hard solo and mute states are engaged. While in this state, unmuting the channel results in it reverting to a hard-soloed state. If the channel is instead unsoloed, it will be left in a hard-muted state – it is not an implied mute. • Hard-muting an ‘auto-soloed’ channel (in implied solo state) overrides the implied solo and the channel is muted. Solo Isolate function You can set up channels in solo isolate mode, which means that they are always heard when soloing any other channel. To put a channel into solo isolate mode, click its solo button while holding down the SHIFT key. The solo button becomes ‘half-lit’, and is always heard along with any other soloed channel. Rude Solo indicator The BFD2 status bar contains a Rude Solo indicator, that is always lit whenever one or more channels are soloed. You can ALT-click this indicator in order to un-solo all channels currently in a hard solo state. Record enable This button is used in conjunction with BFD2’s audio export features. Enabling this button for a channel means that the channel is exported as a discrete audio file when performing any export audio. Click the button to record enable a mixer channel. Click it again to record disable it. You can record enable and disable all mixer channels using the audio export panel, part of the Mixer page Utility panel. Phase flip This button allows you to reverse the phase of any channel. All BFD2’s mic channels are provided in phase with each other (including for kit-pieces which feature multiple out of phase mics, such as kicks and snares). However, if you need to flip the phase of any channel, you can do so. Stereo state Mono state Mono/Stereo (aux channels only) By default, aux channels are added to the mixer as stereo channels. This button allows you to change an aux channel to mono. This is especially useful if you want to process multiple direct channels together before sending them into your host as mono outputs. If you have any FX on an aux channel before changing it from stereo to mono status, they are switched for mono versions automatically with their settings intact, and vice versa. Output routing Each mixer channel can be routed to any available output or any available aux channel as long as it is positioned to the right of the source channel in the mixer layout (see the ‘Channel processing order’ sub-section in section 3:6 for details). You can route as many channels as you like to the same output or aux channel - they are summed before the output or before the input of the aux channel. The output routing selector does not exist on the master channel, as it is hardwired to the first set of BFD2 outputs. Channel strip context menu Right-clicking anywhere on a channel strip results in the channel strip context menu appearing. You can also left-click the menu button on each channel in order to make this menu appear. This context menu offers a number of useful functions for managing channel strips, and provides access to the channel preset system. See section 3:6 for more details. Using the output routing selector
Controls/indicators available in Regular view only Channel Image The channel image serves several purposes. Firstly, it makes it easier to visualize the purpose of each channel – for kit-piece direct channels, the loaded kit-piece is shown. If a kit-piece direct channel exists for which a kit-piece is not yet loaded (for example snare1 bleed channels when nothing has been loaded into the snare1 slot), a generic image of a direct mic is shown. The other channels show images of relevant mics or other studio equipment – see section 3:3 for examples of the images shown for each type of channel. Clicking the image results in the channel being selected. Kit-piece direct mic channels The channel image has two extra functions for kit-piece direct channels. • ALT-clicking the image results in a preview of the kit-piece’s main articulation at a velocity of 95. • Double-clicking an image brings up the kit-piece chooser for that channel, meaning that you can load kit-pieces from the chooser panel without switching back to the Kit page first. Note that you can also load kit-pieces using the kit-piece quick-load controls in the Kit-Piece inspector, part of the Mixer page’s Utility panel. FX/Sends power indicators These 2 banks of 4 vertical LED indicators show the current on/off state of the channel’s 4 FX slots (left bank) and 4 sends (right bank). Controls/indicators available in FX/Send view only The FX/Sends mixer view contains all the displays and controls available in Easy view, although faders and meters are much smaller. It also features the following additional controls: FX slots There are 4 insert points, called FX (effects) slots, available on each channel. A variety of FX, such as track and bus compressors, EQs and filters, and others including phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, chorus and more. FX Power Each FX slot features a button to turn it on or off. Turn off an effect to bypass it. If you ALT-click any button, all FX slots in the channel are turned on. ALT-click any button again to turn off all slots. FX Selector Click on a slot to display the FX menu. All available FX are shown in the menu - select one by moving the mouse over the desired effect and releasing the mouse button. To remove any FX from the slot, select ‘[none]’ in the FX menu. The 4 FX for the currently selected channel are displayed in the FX Rack. Refer to section 3:7 for more details on the FX rack and other aspects of using and managing FX. Please see chapter 12 – in particular sections 12:3 to 12:6 – for more details on using BFD2’s FX suite. The following FX are available for mono and stereo channels: Gain EQ Comp Chan Comp Bus Delay Filter Flanger Chorus Drive Bitcrusher RingMod FreqShift TinCanVerb Noise Gate FX power FX slot/selector Send level Send power & source routing indicator
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Page 7 and 8: 1:2 BFD2 Architecture How BFD2 work
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Page 15 and 16: Load menu Clicking the Load button
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Page 45 and 46: 2:10 Mini-mixer The mini-mixer allo
Page 47 and 48: Next slot mode If this mode is enab
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Page 51 and 52: Saving Mixer presets Using the Save
Page 53 and 54: Unused direct channels A kit-piece
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Page 61 and 62: 3:6 Using the mixer Selecting chann
Page 63 and 64: Signal Routing indicators In order
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Moving selected Parts To move Parts
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8:2 Loading in the Mapping page Loa
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Loading Automation maps To load an
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Single-articulation previews If a k
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8:7 Introduction to BFD2 automation
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Clear All Auto Click this button to
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chapter 09 ELECTRONIC DRUMS AND BFD
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9:3 Variable hihat control Overview
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chapter 10 BFD2 PREFERENCES customi
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High-accuracy song position display
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Session Playback preferences Revert
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Key Mapping preferences These setti
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Special concerns for hihats Hihats
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Mixer GUI Options Show mixer signal
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12:1 Mixing basics Mic channel usag
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12:2 EQ and filtering EQ BFD2’s E
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SC Enabling the SC button results i
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Noise Gate A noise gate is a type o
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Dirty & Clean The Dirty control set
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Flanger The Flanger effect is a sho
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12:6 Mixing each part of the kit Ki
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