FXpansion BFD3 Virtual Drum Software

Full Description

BFD3 includes stunning new kits and sounds such as a brushed kit and processed drum presets for fast custom kit building, The mix-ready presets and modelling technology for tom resonance and cymbal swells give you complete control of the sound you want. Plus, the powerful built in environment for pattern creation and editing complete with a range of performances for effortless production of drum tracks practically indistinguishable from the real thing. This new sound library has been recorded by engineers including Andrew Scheps, Rail Jon Rogut and John Emrich.

Instant Results

BFD3's interface lets you easily browse for entire presets or make your own kits providing the depth to fully sculpt any drum sound you want. Perfect your presets by retuning, damping and changing the velocity response or processing the multi mic sounds in BFD3s internal mixing engine. The Groove section gives you a versatile range of session drummer performances alongside pattern editing and Groove creation functions.

Newly Recorded Library

The new library on BFD3 was recorded in 2 locations for varied room ambience. Kits 1-4 recorded in LA's Ocean Studios feature additional mono and hardware compressed room channels in addition to stereo overhead and room mics whilst kits 5-7 are stick, brush and mallet versions of a custom Mapleworks kit recorded in a clean, tight vibrant room at Omega Studios in Rockville Maryland.

Intelligent Sound Modelling

BFD3's new features reduce the impact of the high level of detail on your system resources. Zero-loss compression for audio data on disk means less strain on your hard drive and decompression whilst streaming will incur minimal overhead. The new audio engine is more efficient and modelled tom resonance and bleed give even more realism without using any memory hungry audio data.

Mix Deeply

BFD3's internal mixing engine has a DCAM-modelled compression filtering and other effects alongside great sounding EQ and algorithmic reverbs. External signals can be used as compression sidechains, ambient channels for individual drums can be isolated and processed separately. BFD3's new workflow improvements will even let you hide multiple drum and ambient mics for adopting simpler mixing.

Exporting and External Processing

BFD3 makes it easy to route multiple channels to discrete outputs for processing with other plugins or outboard gear. It even provides multi channel audio export to disk. Export Grooves using drag and drop - perfect for compiling loops.

To see more of what's new in BDF3 take a look at the PDF below.

Features/Specifications

• 7 new kits recorded in 2 locations
• Includes dedicated rock, metal, jazz and brush kits
• More detail in less disk space
• Tom resonance and cymbal swell modelling
• Redesigned browser, streamlined workflow
• Faster, more efficient audio engine
• Extendable interface for larger screens
• New effects including reverb and DCAM EnvShaper
• Wide range of mix-ready presets with accompanying grooves
• Fully editable, improved groove engine
• Rudiments tool for easy groove construction
• Grooves by Steve Ferrone, Brooks Wackerman, Bobby Jarzombek, Peter Erskine & Stanton Moore courtesy of Platinum Samples

Minimum requirements

• Core2Duo 2.0ghz (or equivalent)
• 2GB DDR3 RAM
• 7200rpm mechanical hard disk or fast SSD
• Windows 7 or later (Windows)
• OSX 10.6.8 or later (Mac)
• Internet connection for authorization and downloads
• USB 2.0 port for installation
• 3 install options: 18GB, 27GB or 55GB disk space required

Recommended for high detail settings

• Quad-core processor or faster (Core2Quad, i3, i5, and i7, or equivalent)
• 3GB DDR3 RAM or higher
• Dedicated drive for audio content