Just trying to start a discussion mostly on peoples experiences were 3.5, if you have upgraded.
Most important question:
Is it stable and bug free? BFD have become notorious for releasing versions with serious bugs. This makes me tempted to wait for 3.5.1 or some such thing.
What is actually new, and not merely cosmetic?
Not that cosmetic isn’t important; the BFD GUI could definitely use some love. The new microphone editing doesn’t seem new to me… Wasn’t that just available in the mixer before? They’re saying there are 48 effects… I seem to remember there were 41. So are there seven new effects?
And concerning the GUI, is it resizable now? BFD had a very awkward method of changing the window size, but not the GUI itself. Anything new?
They seem to be saying there are new kits in the core collection… Is this really the case?
I’m noticing a lot of the expansions now say “BFD player only“. Does this mean they don’t work in BFD.
It looks like the licensing System has received an upgrade. Space experiences? Does it still check your license once a month and lock you out
And finally… This is free for previous owners right? We’re not at 4.0 yet!
There is broken and there is BFD 3.5. Extractor is crazy slow. Installer is worse. Things 3.4 kept when changing kits change now. Says everything is authorized, forces authorization anyway, never happens. Instant crash of VST2 in reaper. Had to take DLL out of folder to get project to start. The VST3 is obviously not the same, so it seems I have to redo the routing on a ton of songs. Still not authorizing whatever it complaining about in standalone player and plugin. I upgraded software I have used for years and now it’s broken. Not a good look.
Just started using it so hardly a complete test but so far so good. I run an old Mac Pro from 2009 but with Sequoia 15.3 (pretty much the latest OS). The old version was crashing out in standalone version but 3.5 seems to be running great so far. Again though…this is just loading some kits and playing them with my edrums so hardly a complete test of all the features.
It also seems to run fine in logic based on opening an old project. Loads up fine and plays it exactly the way the old one did. All settings intact.
Not sure about what’s new. Haven’t gotten that deep.
Don’t know. Didn’t try.
No, I don’t think there are any new kits. I re downloaded the core collection and it’s the same number of kit pieces. Maybe some new presets? Not sure cause I don’t really care about preset kits.
Sorry, don’t know.
Yeah it’s called the “Software Center”. Pretty painless based on what I just did. You have to go install the software center app on your computer. Gives you the list of all your products, options to download them again if needed and takes care of what the LM used to. Seems pretty good to me. The only minor gripe is when launching BFD3 it seems to take a minute to check and load up everything. It’s a bit slow. Hopefully they can speed that up a bit. Still…it’s not like it’s THAT long though.
So far I don’t see any functional changes. It’s otherwise been pretty smooth.
I reinstalled everything for which there is an inMusic installer, and rescanned everything one by one. Don’t know if the reinstall was strictly necessary, but individual rescan was. That was the same situation when they went from FXpansion to inMusic. In the end, everything worked, including my old DrumDrops and a legacy expansion that was imported using the ancient FXpansion converter.
Some of the Platinum Samples groove packs, for which there isn’t an inMusic installer, my Groove Monkee, etc are showing up as unauthorized, but they work just fine.
Honestly, I just removed 3.4 before going to 3.5. Complete wipeout and reinstall of 3.4 has always been a viable troubleshooting tactic. If I needed to go back, I could just pull it off a backup. I doubt I will.