P.S. I have had no luck trying to use the Support part of the bfddrums site, you fill in your info but when you try to send you message, nothing happens.
In case you havenât already figured out by reading: BFD 3 is now owned by a company called inmusic. Your BFD 1 and 2 are now dead, and not supported. However, those sounds from BFD 1 and 2 have been made into expansions, âEldoradoâ and âLondon Sessionsâ respectively, so that the ânewâ BFD 3 can use those sounds, because your old serials for BFD 1 and 2 donât mean a thing to BFD 3. Neither does their installation, donât waste your time juggling paths around.
Instead supply Drew with your email and serial numbers, and he will issue new serials for your expansions so that they work in BFD 3.
Weâve all been through this, the migration didnât automagically sort this issue unfortunately. Just wait for Drew and heâll sort you out.
Thank you, my friend.
So how do these new âexpansionsâ affect old projects? What about my old custom user kits?
Will âEldoradoâ and âLondon Sessionsâ also solve my Deluxe, XFL, and Zildjian Digital Vaults problems?
Eldorado and London Sessions are the sounds of BFD 1 and 2 only. Deluxe, XFL, and Zildjian are expansions which I donât have, so I canât speak for certain, but I think you will be given new serials for those.
They donât have any differences from what Iâve seen so far, but for kits, if I were you, Iâd save each projectâs unique kit into a kit file for good measure. Every kit that you have saved in BFD will remain on your computer, and you can import them manually if they donât show up automatically, but kits that you have set up in projects and NOT saved them, Iâd save those.
Deluxe, XFL, and the Zildjian serials migratred with the rest of my serial numbers. They also download through the License Manager, if thatâs needed.
Deluxe and XFL migrated over to InMusic, and I can see their serial number in my InMusic online account, and in License Manager, but I cannot get the products to appear in BFD 3, despite pointing Set Up Content Locations at them. I even tried deleting all content and redoing Set Up Content multiple times.
Zildjian would not migrate over from my Fxpansion to InMusic account.
I was eventually able to achieve âBasicâ forum status and get a PM to Drew, but have not received a reply from him. I also found the nearly hidden way to get an email through to tech support and was delighted to get a reply back within 24 hrs. Different tech, not Drew. I sent this tech my serial numbers, and details about my issues. Hopefully someone can helpâŚ
Try reinstalling using the download provided in the license manager. Itâs technically a different product, with a different serial number.
One of the Zildjian products was replaced with another, years ago. I forget which. Thereâs a replacement product and serial number. The newer one migrates over, but the old one doesnât, and needs @BFD_Drewâs assistance.
Wow! Who knew?! I didnât know that! Nor did I know you could download from the license manager! Iâll give it a try!
And do I need to reinstall the BFD 3 Core Library too? Because I didnât do that. I just pointed it at my old content⌠Which seems to have worked for BFD 3 core, and Andy Johns, but not the others.
Off the top of my head I donât remember what I did and didnât reinstall. The license strings are all different. Maybe I did them all? That seems excessive, but Iâve never been known for moderation.
So it seems the license manager is the ONLY way to download your content. Your serial numbers appear in your InMusic online account under Product Registrations, but when you try to download it just says: âNo downloads for this product. Please check later.â
If you hadnât pointed me in the right direction, I would never had known you could (or must) download from the license manager⌠The license manager itself leaves much to be desired⌠For instance, if you try to download just one product, it starts downloading ALL of your products and you have to stop it (or else wait forever while it redownloads stuff you already have!)
There is so much that is not explained in the Migration Instructions.
Thanks so much! Thank god for forums! Once again the fellow user has your back better than official tech support.
Iâm downloading and installing now, which is taking all day⌠Fingers crossed it will all work in the end! 
OK, tech support contacted me via email (someone else, not the mythic âDrewâ who remains MIA), and he sent the missing serial numbers to my License Manager. I downloaded everything from the License Manager and ran all the installers, and opened BFD3 and deleted and redid all of my Content Locations. My products are:
BFD 1 (Now Eldorado)
BFD 2 (Now London Sessions)
BFD XFL
BFD Deluxe
Andy Johns
Zildjian Vol 1
It seems that all of the drum pieces came though, but not all the kits!
I deleted everything and redid Set Content Locations again, and this time the Andy Johns kits showed up, but still no XFL or Deluxe kits! Drum pieces, but no kits.
After many more hours grinding away at this, I finally believe I have figured out a way to get my missing kits. The kits are there in the installer, they just donât get installed when you run the installer! You have to manually import them! Here is the procedure (Mac):
- BFD3 ->File-> Import Kits
- Navigate to the installer and dig down into the folders thus:
Downloads->BFD Drums->BFD Deluxe->Installer->Payload->BFD2System->Kits - Select your missing kits. (Hold Command to select more than one kit in the list.). Click Open.
- Confirm to convert to BFD3 format.
- Choose folder to Import To. You must choose the following location:
Documents->BFD Drums->BFD3->Kits - Click open.
- Repeat the above for other missing kit sets (e.g., in my case XFL).
Then, FINALLY your missing kits will be in InMusic BFD3!
I hope this helps some other poor soul suffering through this confusing, under-documented, and buggy migration process.
I will also add that when communicating with tech support via email to get my serial numbers, I specifically explained that Deluxe and XFL etc were not appearing and ask for detailed instructions on how to get them working, but the reply I got back was a single sentence that my serial numbers had been transferred over to the License Manager.
I had to figure out the rest of this through the kind assistance of this forum, and many hours of persistence. I believe Iâm now getting close to full restoration of what I had under Fxpansion BFD3. I still need to investigate to see if all the presets and grooves came throughâŚ
Best,
Babz
There are two ways of doing this, you can either go to the contents tab and click âAdd BFD2 pathsâ then rescan.
If that doesnât work there is IMO a better way and that is to open the installer files using WinRar or 7zip or whatever, youâll find a folder called, âinstallerâ open that and then look in âPayloadâ youâll see different folders but youâll have either one, or all of these, BFD2System and in some cases BFDEcoSystem.
Open those up and you should find folders for any of the presets, kits and grooves that came with it.
You can then copy those over to your kits and preset folders, the defaults should be at, C:\ProgramData\BFD Drums\BFD3\System
I have had this happen and with some odd results like duplicates or BFD3 not converting them properly so take not of what kits and presets are included and if they donât show up after a scan you might have to import them individually and save them in their default locations.
It may ask you if you want to replace an existing preset with the same name which you will need to do.
I say the above way is better, obviously itâs a lot more laborious but it does work.
I would only do it if Adding BFD2 paths doesnât pick up all your presets.
Just donât delete the install files until you know you have all the kits/grooves and presets
Steve
Thanks. Yes, Add BFD2 Paths does not work. The rest of what you describe sounds similar to what I did, but Iâm on Mac and it sounds like your instructions are for Windows.
Best,
Babz
Yes my instructions were for windows so not sure what the default locations are where youâd want to move the kits/presets and grooves but youâll need to extract the dmg installer and you should find all the other folders the same as they are for windows.
Steve
Just wanted to add that I was able to use the above procedure to import my Fxpansion BFD2 custom user kits. For step 2, navigate to the following location (Mac):
Documents->Fxpansion->BFD2->Kits
However, I should also add that the same steps will NOT work for importing Presets.
That is, similar steps, but choosing âImport Presetsâ in Step 1, and navigating to Documents->Fxpansion->BFD2->Presets in step 2. When you do this, the Presets are grayed out and cannot be selected.
Hope this helps other users.
Best,
Babz
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Attempting to message you Drew, Iâm a new user. I need to install the latest version of BFD on my Win 10 64 bit PC running Pro Tools 2021.3
My InMusic account is not displaying all my BFD products: missing are El Dorado and 8 Bit Kit.
Iâd like to be able to install and get up and running ASAP.
Can you assist? Thanks
Correction Drew - 8 Bit Kit is showing after all, El Dorado is the only expansion missing.
Just making another contact attempt Drew, I donât appear to have the ability to message you⌠not enough street cred??