Amazing Virtual Vintage Drum Kits!
The FXpansion BFD 2.0 virtual drum library gives you a staggering 55GB of rare, vintage, boutique, and classic drum sounds that will punch up the quality of any recording. The BFD 2.0 sound library, which was recorded at London's legendary Air Lyndhurst studios, features each instrument captured in immaculate detail with multiple mic setups. Within the user interface, you have complete control over the mics like you would in a mixing situation. If you want to assemble your virtual dream kit, look no further than BFD 2.0!

Assemble kits in seconds
BFD2 lets you assemble large custom kits in seconds, and tweak things like tuning, damping, velocity response and more. The built-in Groove engine lets you create, record and edit drum performances, with a variety of humanization effects. You can even arrange a full song's drum track directly within BFD2.

Killer sound library
The sound library, recorded at London's legendary Air Lyndhurst studios, features each instrument captured in immaculate detail with multiple mics including stereo overheads and rooms, as well as a mid/side room set allowing true mono and incredible-sounding expanded stereo.

Intuitive interface
BFD2's interface allows you to work with the mics like you're mixing a recording of a drum kit. You can freely route and sidechain signals, create custom submixes, and use the included suite of high-quality circuit-modelled processors and effects, including track and bus compressors and limiters, EQ and filters, flangers, phasers, chorus, distortion. If you're more of a musician than an engineer, you can use the supplied drum mix presets and concentrate on your arrangements instead!

FXpansion BFD 2.0 Virtual Drum Library Features:

• 55GB of rare, vintage, boutique and classic drums
• Tons of kits, extra snares and cymbals, and more
• Multiple expressive articulations, each with up to 96 velocity layers
• Built-in circuit-modeled effects suite
• Multi-channel audio export directly within BFD2
• Fully featured groove creation, editing and arrangement
• Comprehensive MIDI mapping and support for electronic drumkits
   

Detailed info:
BFD2: an acoustic drum production environment for your computer with unprecedented power and flexibility. Extreme realism and sound quality, fast and easy set up, total plug-in integration to your digital audio workstation.

Customized 10, 18 or 32 piece kits are at your fingertips, with full control over tuning, damping, ambience levels, velocity response and more. Layer parts of the kit for powerful hybrid sounds perfect for modern productions and flick through preset kit-piece profiles for quick access to dry, damped and other useful settings. BFD2 lets you configure your sounds like a real drum kit instead of pushing buttons on a sampler.

You can even import your own stereo sample-sets with multiple velocity layers so you can mix and layer your own sounds with BFD2's for experimental kits and 'drum-replacement' production tricks.

A universe of detail and sonic power
The hyper-detailed 55GB library features sounds with multiple articulations recorded with up to 96 velocity layers to open up new worlds of rhythmic expression. BFD2 makes it possible to program or play convincing nuances and ghost notes, intricately varied and dynamic hihat parts, elaborate cymbal workouts and visceral kick and snare lines.

The refined tone and definition of the space at London's legendary AIR Lyndhurst studios is captured with two pairs of room mics, including a mid/side set. Meanwhile, the kit is mic'd with stereo overheads and mono close directs. All audio is routed through the magic of a custom Neve desk with Air Montserrat preamps into Prism A/D converters, sealing the foundations of a killer drum sound.

BFD2 is compatible with the entire BFD library, so if you've already bought FXpansion or third-party expansion packs you'll be able to use them in BFD2 and take advantage of all the new sound shaping features to get even more out of your investment.

Mix, route and process
BFD2's flexible, comprehensive mixing console lets you blend, route, submix and process the mic channels just like a real-world drum recording. Tweak bleed levels, play with ambient mic width, create aux sends and patch sidechain effects to shape your drums into infinite variations that sound convincing and powerful. The built-in processors include circuit-modelled dynamics, filters and distortion to deliver fat and floor-shaking sounds, while the flanger, bitcrusher, ring mod, delay and other effects allow subtle to extreme timbral variety.

In fact, the depth and scope of BFD2's mixer rivals that of many fully-fledged sequencing hosts, meaning that you don't have to worry about setting up multiple outputs in your host for mixing your drums. If you want to take advantage of external reverbs and other plugins or outboard you can route channels freely to any of the 32 available outputs. However, if you're more of a musician than an engineer, you may prefer to browse through the supplied presets from experienced studio veterans, suitable for a variety of musical styles.

A versatile and full-featured Groove engine
BFD2's Groove engine provides the perfect environment for editing patterns, setting up performance modes and applying humanization effects for added realism. Although you can create and record your own Grooves, over 5000 stylistically diverse patterns are ready for you to slot straight into your productions or edit and combine with elements of each other to make new, customized parts. You can even lay out a sequence of Grooves to form a full drum track entirely within BFD2.

If you're a previous user of BFD, you'll love the new time-saving and powerful functional enhancements in the Groove engine like the advanced editor, synced audition previews, individual start and end actions for each Groove and improved sorting, searching and management of your Groove library.

And even more...
Further improvements in BFD2 include the new, intuitive keymapping editor, easier electronic drum setup, comprehensive management of kits and presets, a revamped internal engine, totally re-designed interface, and several ways of exporting multichannel audio directly from BFD2. For example, being able to quickly and effortlessly export individual Grooves as audio makes BFD2 the ultimate custom breakbeat factory.

New in BFD2.1

• Overloud Breverb "BFD2 Edition" integrated into BFD2 mixer - Hall, Plate, Room & Inverse algorithms
• PSP Vintage Warmer "BFD2 Edition" integrated into BFD2 mixer
• Improved synth engine supporting varied mic and articulation configurations
• Preset/Kit switching playlist, controllable via MIDI Program Change
• In-place kit-piece preview before loading
• Load-on-demand RAM optimization
• Many new workflow enhancements in the Kit page, such as Copy, Swap and Move kit-pieces between slots when loaded
• Workflow improvements in the Grooves page: new edit tools like the roll tool; Drum Track enhancements; Redo as well as Undo
   

Feature Highlights

• 10 full kits, extra snares, cymbals, and more
• Incredible detail: Multiple mic positions, expressive articulations, up to 96 velocity layers
• User stereo multi-velocity layer sample import
• EQ and FX suite containing everything from flanger, bitcrusher and delay effects to circuit-modelled dynamics, filtering and distortion
• Great-sounding presets let you concentrate on writing and playing instead of engineering
• 5000+ Grooves ready to use in your projects
• Built-in multi-channel audio export
• Better management of kits, instruments, Grooves and other files
• Easy mapping for keyboard/pad controllers and automation
• Electronic drum triggering support including expressive hihats and snare positional sensing
• A huge range of powerful new features and workflow enhancements
   

Sound Library Highlights

• Recorded with premium mics and a warm, refined signal path in a room with stunning clarity and definition of ambience
• Mid/Side room mic set for anything from true mono to incredible sounding expanded stereo room sounds
• Thunderous, punchy kicks featuring inside and outside mics
• Versatile snare mic mixing: two top mics and a bottom mic
• Incredibly detailed hihats featuring 11 articulations, snares include hits at the centre and halfway towards the edge
• Lush, complex cymbals with bell and edge hits
• 55GB of multi-channel, 24-bit 44.1 kHz audio

Minimum requirements:

• Windows XP SP1 or higher, Vista 32, P4 or better CPU (Windows)
• OSX 10.4, G5 or Intel CPU (Mac)
• 1 GB of RAM
• 60 gig HD, 7200 rpm
• DVD drive
• Internet connection for product authorisation
• Vi anbefaler ikke BFD2 til brukere av Cubase 6, Win7 og 64-bit.

Recommended for best results

• 2 GB of RAM or more
• Fast, multi-core modern Intel or AMD CPU
• Dedicated hard drive
• VST, RTAS or AU compatible plugin host
• Low latency audio interface

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