Sunday, June 27, 2010

Cheapest Fxpansion BFD2 Acoustic Drums Module


The 50gb BFD2 pack is very bloated. The sounds are pretty decent, yet they are completely smothered with reverb. There doesn't seem to be a way to really control it without severely cutting your overhead / ambient mics, which destroys the sound pretty much. For a 50gb library, there's not a lot to choose from either. Most of the sounds are pretty bad as well. They can't be used upon loading, as you are pretty much forced to do a huge amount of editing and processing on each piece to get it to sound somewhat presentable.

I was trying to find an answer for a quick question regarding the lack of an open hat when using a MIDI keyboard. That's right, by default, there's no open hat. Even if you try to map it, it just plays as a closed hat. The response I got from their support didn't help at all, and it wasn't even on the same topic as what I asked. There's literally no support whatsoever concerning mapping the notes to a MIDI keyboard on the internet. It's not answered in the manual, which only covers mapping to e-kits.

It's a huge library with minimal functionality and no support. It's not a good deal by any stretch of the imagination.

Suggested instead, I would say to check out Superior Drummer 2. It sounds fantastic and comes out of the box with full functionality, and a much easier to use mixer.

I use Cubase 5 and an M-Audio Keystation Pro 88.Get more detail about Fxpansion BFD2 Acoustic Drums Module.

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