Oh, and you get a range of dedicated effects such as compression, EQ, envelope shaping, distortion and reverb that can all be added to your drum mix. The mixer allows you to blend all of these sound sources, just as you would with a multitrack recording of a real acoustic drum kit including the ability (if you want it) to add 'bleed' from one drum into the mic positioned near another. In addition, you get overhead, room, ambient and various mono and compressed room channels. For example, the snare features top, bottom and side mics while the kick has in, out and sub mics. However, the potential for creating realistic drum performances doesn't just depended upon the sample base there is also the very sophisticated mixing environment, including multiple microphones on some drums. Providing your programming and/or The Tech panel allows you to fine-tune the sound of each individual drum, including bleed, dynamics and aying chops are up to it, what this allows is an ultra-realistic sample-based performance to be created no machine gun rolls or parts where every hit of every drum is triggering the same sample. For example, for the snare you can get standard hits, drags, flam, half edge, rimshot, side stick and rim click, while the hi-hat features as many as 13 different articulations. Equally, multiple articulations have been sampled. In essence, you get a series of meticulously sampled acoustic drum kits with multiple sample layers (up to 80 on some of the snares).
The basic concept of BFD3 is essentially the same as BFD2. So, five years after its release - and given that BFD2 is still one of the best virtual drum instruments available - just what have FXpansion found to improve upon? What's New?
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I found that it offered the essence of a real drum kit, with the subtleties and nuances of the performance all under easy control, in a convenient software format.
I reviewed BFD2 for SOS in the June 2008 issue. And even if you have the kit, drummer, recording space and microphone collection to compete with what's possible with these virtual instrument tools, efficiency alone might be enough to mean you choose the virtual route. Whatever your take on the matter of virtual instruments vs the real thing, there is no doubting the realism, flexibility and convenience offered by virtual drum instruments such as FXpansion's BFD series, Toontrack's Superior Drummer, Native Instrument's Battery or XLN Audio's Addictive Drums. BFD2 was always going to be a hard one to top, but that hasn't stopped FXpansion from trying.
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