User Guide

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Template selector
This drop-down menu allows the selection of one of a number of Swing Templates
supplied with BFD.
Swing slider
This control gradually varies the timing of the playing Groove between the setting
specified with the Hard Quantize slider, and the currently selected Template.
The funky opposing ‘Groove Dudes’ are a graphical representation of the two
swing parameters.
• HUMANIZATION PANELS
In addition to the versatile Quantization panel, BFD offers a further two
functions to vary the expressive character of its output: the Humanize
Timing and Humanize Velocity panels. These work in a slightly different
way
to the other panels. To bring up either panel, click the timing or velocity
buttons. You will see that a popup graph is displayed, the curve of
which can be shaped by moving the mouse, after which a click will both finalize
the curve shape and exit the panel. Please see below for an explanation
regarding how to interpret the curve shapes.
Humanize Timing panel
Use this panel to introduce random timing variations to make a Groove sound
more ‘human’ - in other words, less mechanically perfect. The panel graph has an
x-axis showing time deviations away from a note’s original time position (marked
by a white line in the centre), and the y-axis represents the probability of a certain
deviation occurring, the top of the graph being “highly probable”. If you are playing
a Groove with Auto Groove Repeat enabled, the timing variations will be different
for every repetition. Timing randomizations are not applied to notes from your
sequencer or MIDI controller – only to Grooves.
Humanize Velocity panel
This panel graph works in exactly the same way as the Humanize Timing panel,
except that the x-axis represents changes in velocity from the original. Therefore,
it is possible to emulate the slight variations in force used by a real drummer