E-Drummer RATES All BFD Player Expansions on Electronic Drums
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Im playing, tracking some songs with and rating all of the BFD Player expansions. Which ones made the grade (in my opinion), and which ones are most useful? Let's find out...
Reviewing BFD Player expansions, on electronic drums (Roland TD17kv), including expansions:
London 70's · Dark Mahogany · Jazz Sticks · Jazz Brushes · Americana Sticks · Americana Brushes · Dark Copper
There is also a Vintage Rock expansion, but you can see my video on BFD Player 1.2 to see all about that one.
I play 6 song segments in this video! My personal record.
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Great video dude! It's nice to have them all in one video to hear. BFD's website isn't the greatest to try to compare and contrast; this is way more convenient 🤘
Yes I agree! And thanks for the compliment, you guys are awesome. You still thinking of getting that new getgood pack?
@@eDrumsandVSTs bought lol
Nice work as always! It is hard to go past the london 70's expansion for me. It's a huge sounding kit and really pleased that they included the Black Oyster 402 instead of the 400 that was the matching snare for the BFD3 library as it is more to my taste. I also like the Q snare with the dark mahogany expansion. I have a bit of a frankenkit preset with the London paiste cymbals, the free kit toms and the Mahogany Q snare which match nicely though I've found that not all the kit pieces work well together. I mainly just use the original mixes, though I like a couple of the jazz sticks presets and it is a cool sounding kit otherwise. It is possible to work around the lack of having a midi learn function in that it is possible to duplicate the midi preset files, edit them and the and rename them to match your own mapping. Bit of a pain at this stage but I like now that I can open it up standalone and start playing straight away rather than via a DAW.
yes! I had to do something similar for MIDI preset stuff. You sound like you do a lot of the same kind of stuff I do. Great choices, by the way, for your frankenkit. That q snare is powerful indeed. But as you said -- the london 70s was so nice sounding.
Awesome overview man! Top quality stuff. I didn't know they had this many now!
Thanks so much man! I saw your video as well, and I wanted to comment, but it was turned off for comments...Yamz has a great kick in it, I think you'd love it!
@eDrumsandVSTs thanks man I fixed it ugh. Not sure why the kids setting again. Oops.
Always been on the fence about BFD but that London 70's kit is daaaamn tasty!
Oohh it felt so good to play it live. Any of the presets, but especially the Levee preset, you start doing a bonham-type feel and it just sounds so nice, to my ears anyway.
As a BFD3 user, gotta say i love it.
I hope we can get some BFD3 expansions for BFD Player such as: Crush, Black Album, modern Drummer snare select, wooden snares, Metal snares, modern retro.
The only problem, besides the midi learn function, is that you cannot add cymbals or toms. Your are limited to the amount of cymbals and toms the kit already have.
I hope they update this because, in my opinion, this is way better than Toontrack and many other drum software.
I’ve spent a lot of money in libraries that never felt like “i really like this one, this is the one i’ll use from now on”. BFD is the only one that delivers. It’s amazing.
I use dark Farm every single day and it’s the best of all.
Now i’m using the BFD player because it’s more ready to go but if you want to créate presets, find new sounds, BFD3 is second to none.
Everything is sampled really well.
yo nacho! Yes, I know you love BFD3 and I do too -- which is why I really enjoy these releases. But yes, they sorely need to update a few things in this...but perhaps thats why they are priced lower. I dont know.
@@eDrumsandVSTs another thing, there’s no crosstick midi articulation. I only get the rim shot.
I’m sure they will update this. If they do, it will be hard to beat
@eDrumsandVSTs I hope they do a midi learn right now I'm using notemapper but I haven't been able to figure out the hi hat so I'm forced to use a different vst for the hat lol
@@wildbillrocking Understood! There is a techie way to adjust the hihat, though its a bit of a pain. All of the presets (midi mapping presets I mean) are actually files in one of the BFD Player directories. You can edit them, and the hihat openess and stuff is at the bottom. Although, FYI, if you cant find a midi preset that at least gets you CLOSE, it may be difficult. Another option is to open Reaper (or whatever DAW)'s virtual keyboard and pluck keys and make a note of each key for each stage of openness. Then use my hihat tool in my hihat video a while back.
But yes, its very involved -- just giving you options IF you want to proceed with some ideas. They do know people are requesting midi learn functionality!
@eDrumsandVSTs yeah my notes are good for all the drums but I haven't tried to spend the time to figure out the hi hat any further running 2 modules complicates things sometimes my hat is running off my edrumin
Thanks! 😊Thoughts on Vintage Rock?
Thanks for watching Joe! I really liked Vintage rock, and you can see that one in my BFD Player version 1.2 video I did a couple months ago. but after getting and hearing London 70s, which has some great Bonham and sabbath-esque sounds, it has become my favorite. But Vintage Rock had some great dry sounds and more of a standard vintage rock and vintage funk thing going on, which is great as well. London 70s is like the harder rock version i suppose.
@@eDrumsandVSTs appreciate it!
They NEED to do the LEARN function it's essential lol
Indeed it is essential to be usable.
@Ludo_A especially when you use multiple modules and your mapping is all over the place LOL
BFD Player's closed hihat sounds don't automatically choke the open hihat sounds. It requires you to send an aftertouch message, trigger a closed hihat with a velocity that's larger than the triggered open hihat, or play the foot pedal (or the separate choke key). This is really annoying for keyboard drummers. 😔
Wow. This is good to know. I was considering BFD for my midi programmed drums because they sound great , but that sounds annoying and like a lot of extra work
Clines, im sorry i missed your comment! Thanks for letting us know -- I have yet to use it for MIDI programming. Ive noticed many drum libraries have that same behavior too.
@@EricJohnson-fh8zj Eric, I would try the free BFD Player core lib and see if that fits your bill -- and if not, nothing is lost. I dont get paid by anyone, so Im not trying to sell it, just want to help.
@@eDrumsandVSTs No problem! The ones that I've used so far (Addictive Drums 1&2, EZDrummer 2, MINDst Drums [bought this after watching your video on this 👍🏽😎], SSD5.5, Studio Drummer, MODO Drum, plus others that I can't recall unfortunately) don't have this problem though. BFD Player is so far the only one that I've tried that has this issue which is such a shame since it sounds really good 🙁 I sure hope that it's just a bug, or if it is intentional, I hope that they'll provide a switch to toggle "keyboard mode" or something. Right now you can't even choose a specific channel within the software (omni by default), I hope they'll keep improving it, I would love to grab the rest of the expansion packs if they do!
@@clines.alabat Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I think I have played sooo many that dont seem to do this, that I forgot the ones that do, and I appreciate you mentioning those here. You are coming at this from a keyboard drummer's perspective and I appreciate your input, because I am definitely trying to reach all users of drum samples, not just edrummers. So thanks again for this.
I got the free version and I thought it was just ok. Are the expansions better than the free BFD player?
If you are totally unimpressed with the free BFD Player, you might like them, or you might not love the expansions. I think the true value lies not in the presets but if you were to part it out and process the drums themselves. But thats just my opinion as someone who is listening for as much realism as I can hear. You might want more instant polished sounds.
Thanks 🙏, I really love your channel. Great content as always.
@@artsal That means a lot, thanks
@@artsal Thanks so much!
Are you going to review the fotis Bernardo drum library? Thanks 😊
Thank you!! I didnt know about this -- wil check it out, and I hope i can!
@@eDrumsandVSTsthat would be awesome, thanks
@@artsal update: its coming soon! Probably another week or two, vid will be up.
My man!
Yo D! Thanks for watching