FXpansion BFD3 V3120 WiNMac OSX: A Detailed Review of Its Features, Interface, Sound Library, and Performance
additionally, their bass guitar salsuite contains over sixty guitar sounds arranged in ten genres, from blues and country to metal and rock. the snare-cymbal kit salsuite offers a full drum kit equipped with a custom drum kit rack. eight racks of drum sounds include authentic drum hardware, the ultimate in drum feel and sound. a further 12 racks of snare and cymbal sounds, generated with fxpansion's most powerful modeling technology to date, brings the total number of salsuites to 25.
FXpansion BFD3 V3120 WiNMac OSX
bfd3 represents an enormous amount of product refinement and quality improvement over the previous version.fxpansion has created a library of contents that many drummers will find invaluable for their work.this is the type of thing that sells software: the kind of quality we have come to expect from fxpansion since the original roland mt-32.
this expansion includes a full 32 tracks consisting of drum, percussion and cymbal kits. additional kits include the full bfd signature series, plus a wood kit for the recording custom.together, they contain 751 sampled sounds that can be re-sampled and modified for a full mix.
an excellent drum kit awaits you! i'm more used to the somewhat abrupt sound of a hitachi 909 tom, but the new bfd3 d40 kit is a revelation. geist not only keeps this approach, but also feels far more flexible than most competitors, too. as a result, i found it easier to go from a simple '2-4-5' 1/16th to cymbal crash in-time to subtle and subtle until it became one huge rhythm, rather than try to go from nothing to the full wah-wah tom in the same session. the rhythmic flex of geist also led to powerful performances: i burned-in the evil dead theme to a side-by-side toms. /bfd3 really makes for some lively performances.it's very effective at producing fat or sharp cymbals, too, which i find is important to my style. the envelope enabler is very useful in defining dynamics, with sweep and attack settings giving real-time shaping of the attack, as well as any decay.a c-mode sculpted slap cymbal deserves particular recognition. i can't do a 'perfect' hi-hat playing style - it's not in me - and c-mode's soft hi-hat has a real classic feel: a real gem!the addition of dynamic c-mode is new territory for this type of software, and i found it enabled a lot of high-frequency effects which i'd not have thought of. if these options are not to your liking, you can simply turn c-mode off. many 'on the fly' effects are perhaps overused, but a voice with a filter as sophisticated as geist's will usually be useful. c-mode is no replacement for a high-quality vca'd compressor, however: i found c-mode added extra resonance that pulled the drums too high on my mic preamp.geist now includes dry/wet controls in the mixer, although these are slightly awkward to access. a setting of 100% wet sounds more like normal practice, and to me, more realistic. some other small issues around controls were also evident, although i'd be more concerned by these if i had to use geist from scratch.