It’s the last one on their page - about 2 ‘n’ half grand. But there’s no option for an nvme drive caddy, that takes 4 2tb nvme drives that’s another fortune on top. I’m after it with at least 64gb ram. it’s the AMD Ryzen 9.
I kind of feel we’re all beta testers at the moment.
Sure I’ll still use BFD but I have not bought an expansion since Wooden Snares (whenever that came out) because I was uncertain on BFD’s future. I am still uncertain and they have some work to do to gain my confidence back. Treating me like a criminal is not one of those steps.
Wow. I was trying to figure out why standalone was working but the plugin wasn’t, as my DAW is firewalled. Worst of all it seems I can’t punch a hole just for BFD since they use Google services, which necessitates whitelisting a rather large block of IP addresses.
This is especially discouraging since it necessitates an internet connection when traveling or performing.
Drew has said that this won’t be the case in the next build but there is talk of having to lg in once a month or so which hasn’t gone down well with a lot of users.
It’s puzzling, the AIR, AKAI, other InMusic products use iLok which authenticate one and done to computer or dongle, and optional cloud. I’m less comfortable with custom online DRM because once the authentication server goes down or dev gets hit by a bus there goes your tool. On the other hand this shows a degree of autonomy.
In any event, monthly checks are an overreach and a major change midstream that was not communicated before the account transfer. It’s another critical mission thing to take up headspace, a moving date on a calendar, and it’s simply an unnecessary complication people do not need in their lives.
The sooner the team get out in front of this, the better. I assume there are internal discussions going on, but the longer it gets left, the more this will be cemented as a ‘true’ internet rumour
I’m not going to vent how this is a problematic idea just yet. Drew has been very receptive and responsive thus far with a lot of the issues users are having, as well as their concerns for the future. Hopefully this will be re-thoughtout for the next update.
I don’t have the issue of BFD not working if I’m off of the internet. I just disabled my network card and BFD3 still works just fine and as per normal.
Finally migrated, thanks to a forum post on Steinberg and also how to find this forum here.
Maybe this only online working is just related to Windows. Here on Mac latest Catalina, no problem running BFD 3.4 when blocking it to connect to the internet.
Weird, I’m running the latest version of Catalina here and I could not launch BFD 3.4 as a plugin or standalone with wifi disabled. I had to roll back to the FX version until they get this sorted.
Ok, have to clarify this. I just blocked the attempts of BDF 3.4 to connect to somewhere with Little Snitch. I now tried to start it with Wifi off. And yes indeed, crashing. That’s crap, of course. I hope that it is not actually the intention of the developers that BFD only works when wifi is enabled. For me a no go.