Overview
BFD Player is an attractive, modern looking drum plugin that offers a simple and fast workflow. It focuses on great presets and sounds, offering the legendary sound quality of BFD software.
Features:
- 3D rendered kit view with animated kit graphics
- Full detail levels and no velocity limitations
- Mixer view with macro controls and fast routing of channels in the mixer out to the DAW
- Grooves browser with advanced groove filters, groove previews and drag & drop functionality
- Preset browser with audio previews and preset descriptions
- Kit piece browser for more detailed and advanced kit piece selection
- User preset support
- Keymap support
- UI rescaling
- VST/VST3/AU/AAX support
- Native ARM Mac support
- Integrated expansion registration and authorisation
- Comes with Core Library including presets and grooves
Known issues:
- Mono buses 9-16 are not available in ProTools and in Logic.
- Logic offers 12xStereo + 12xMono and 24xStereo plugin configurations which are invalid and which won’t load.
- Player plugin window scale maxes out at 150% in Pro Tools.
- When BFD Player is inserted in Pro Tools, the LCD panel shows “New Preset” instead of being blank.
- Player doesn’t take keyboard focus until close/reopen UI (Logic M1 Ventura only).
- Installer leaves behind files in temp folder (Windows).