No, don’t run the old installer. Just right-click the installer itself. That will let you see the folder and file hierarchy inside the installer. There should be a folder that says “Payload”. In there, you will find folders for Presets and Grooves and the actual files inside those folders. You can copy those to your BFD3 Users location in Documents.
In this location, create a folder in user Presets and name it BFD Percussion. Create another folder with the same name in user Grooves. Now drag the preset and groove files from the “payload” section of the installer to their respective folders that you just created. Rescan all Content Paths in BFD3.
Inside the payload folder, you’ll find a folder called BFD2System, and inside that, are 4 presets.
I’m afraid 4 presets are all that came with it.
I have checked both the old and the new version and it seems they are the same and are still in BFD2 format. So they will need to be imported into BFD3 which will then convert them to BFD3 format.
So I was asked to make a suggestion, so I’d go with an expansion that uses Tama Drum (Specifically, the Tama Imperialstar and the Tama Artstar)
Sizes:
Bass Drum: 22”x16”
Rack Toms: 10”x8”, 12”x8”, and 13”x9”
Floor Toms: 16”x16”
Snare Drum: 14”x5” (notably a brass snare modeled after a vintage Pearl Jupiter)|
Cymbals:
Brand: Paiste
Sizes and Models:
Hi-hats: 13” Formula 602 Heavy Hi-Hats
Ride: 22” Signature Blue Bell Ride
Crashes: 16” and 18” Formula 602 and Signature series crashes
Splash: 10” splash cymbal
Other Percussion and Accessories:
Octobans: ie Tama Octobans
Rototoms: that is Remo Rototoms.
Now you are going to ask why… it’s basically Stewart Copeland’s drum set up… just need to add probably a cowbell somewhere… this kit would suite loads of genres, obviously reggae, but others too.
Drums have as much to do with tuning and the room they were recorded in as anything else. Zenyatta Mondatta was the album where they really learned how to record Stewart. I think it was also a high point, although they still retained most of those lessons on the next two albums.
But yeah, a focus on recreating that sound would be a really useful expansion.
Yeah, totally agree, Phil Collins later stuff, after his PG3 intruder gated drum sound, used to record in a room with a stone wall, Stewart recorded “Syncronity” in a dinning room with a marble floor using various specific mics (an SM57 on the snare, seinheissers on the toms) and also his usage of delay effects on the hi-hats… ); it would be nice for Hugh Padgham who produced the last two The Police albums, to do a Stewart Expansion), which features that really tight snare drum which played in unison on stuff like Every Breathe with Tama Cong drum, and the bass drum on that tune was derived from a drum machine … can’t remember which one… probably an oberheim…