One slight annoyance is that Eco's tempo always syncs to the host, which means you can't audition grooves in the browser at their original tempo without continually tinkering with the host tempo setting.Īs mentioned, the 17-channel mixer is always available at the bottom and there are 14 effects at hand, covering standard stuff like dynamics, reverbs (including a Breverb-based one courtesy of Overloud) and filters, as well as some that are less typical for a drum kit, such as flanging and bitcrushing.Īs expected, some of BFD2's more advanced features are omitted - layering of kit pieces and sample import, for example. We found this great for quickly piecing together variations on drum parts. These enable you to quickly adjust the grooves, and if you drag-and-drop the effected grooves into your host, the MIDI data is modified accordingly.

So far, so good, but beyond this, you also get four 'groove effects': Quantize, Humanize, Simplify and Swing. Finally, it's possible to select a single groove in the browser and have Eco play it in sync with your host (single mode), and this is good if you fancy spinning through some patterns with your DAW track playing.

Superior drummer 2 humanize settings