This Promotion Is Finished
When it comes to drum sounds, FXpansion’s BFD offers unprecedented levels of detail and flexibility and includes over 9GB of sample data before you’ve even considered one of the 7 expansion packs. Digital Village are currently offering all existing BFD Lite and UltraLite users an opportunity to upgrade to the full version of BFD at the special price of £89.99 inc.vat.
This limited offer also applies to any customers who have bought any drum software such as XLN Addictive Drums, Toontrack EZ Drummer, Native Instruments Battery, Stylus RMX etc as a competitive crossgrade.
We’ve also secured a limited quantity of the discontinued 8-Bit Kit expansion
packs which we are bundling FREE with all BFD Upgrade purchases whilst
stocks last. This old-skool collection of drums, cymbals, hi-hats, percussion
and electronics features dozens of unique, vintage, handmade and exotic kit
pieces, all captured by a strange and wonderful array of microphones. The original
8 Bit Kit Expansion Pack formerly retailed at £109 inc. vat but this special
version is FREE.
What is BFD?
BFD (you can guess what it stands for) is a sample-based sound generator dedicated to producing authentic acoustic “big” drum sounds, and can be operated as either a plug-in or in stand-alone mode on Mac OS X and Windows systems running hosts compatible with VSTi, DXi, RTAS, Audio Units or Rewire. Paul White (SOS February 2005) wrote:
“Its core library is based on seven acoustic drum kits recorded at multiple velocity levels in the same sympathetic room using the same mic setup, but rather than just offering basic samples, the 14 mics around the kit are layered with user controls to allow, for example, the balance of close mics and overheads or room PZM mics to be adjusted.
In practical terms, it's more or less the same as being in the control room with a good drum kit in the studio, where you can adjust the levels from the various mics to get the sound you want. BFD makes a wonderful drum sound module for anyone who needs to capture the real miked acoustic kit sound, but for those less gifted in the percussion department, it also comes with a large library of 'Grooves' in a number of styles. These include variations and fills, so it is relatively easy to create a natural-sounding performance, and because these grooves control only the single hits, they can be played back at any tempo. BFD is definitely aimed at those users who want the sound of a real drum kit in a real room.
If you want pre-treated, pre-produced, pre-digested sounds, this may not be the best place to look. The kits are very well recorded and the choice of three different stereo miking setups combined with the close mics gives you plenty of tonal scope. Furthermore, the range of quality drum kits is exceptional.”
DV Megadeals
Please note that these BFD exclusive offers do not contain the external cardboard boxes. They are the slightly more environmentally friendly versions! However, BFD is the full version complete with manual! Wouldn’t it be great if all virtual instrument software manufacturers provided manuals?
DV Pro Audio Stores and www.dv247.com are also offering fantastic bundle
deals on all hardware products which contain either BFD Lite or BFD UltraLite: All Digidesign LE systems i.e. Mbox & 003 family, AKAI MPD24, Alesis Control Pad (as reviewed in August 2007 SOS, p.146), Focusrite Saffire LE, Novation SL Series including the new SL Compacts and M-Audio Trigger Finger. With the savings on these exclusive bundles, you could consider one of the exceptional BFD expansion packs i.e. BFD XFL, BFD Percussion, BFD Jazz & Funk, BFD Andy John’s Classic Drums and BFD Deluxe or the brand new Evil Drums.
These offers are available at all DV Pro Audio Stores, via telephone mail-order (contact any DV store) and online.