I like a challenge but this time, I have to ask for help. I’ve read numerous posts about missing presets but I still can’t get the VRT presets to be visible in BFD Library. The individual Kit pieces (Kick, Snare, ect.) do show in the library but it would be nice if they at least had a VRT in front of the name but I digress.
Lastly, I’ve tried rescanning, reinstalling the expansion pack a few times.
I am asking for help because I think I have run out of ideas.
I am on a mac running OS 10.15.7 Catalina.
Here is the file path: Mac HD>Users>admin>Documents>BFD Drums>BFD Vintage Recording Techniques.
[All of my related BFD expansions, and grooves, ect. are contained in the BFD Drums folder and they all work with the exception of VRT]
BFD Vintage Recording Techniques Folder contains folder named; audio>VRT Ludwig> [15 kit folders] and a version.xml doc.
The path you posted…Mac HD>Users>admin>Documents>BFD Drums>BFD Vintage Recording Techniques… is the User Path…
Are the Kits/Presets currently in that Folder?
The Kits and Presets should be in the System Folder…
I don’t normally use a Mac but the System Folder location should be
Move the Kits to the Kits Folder…Presets to the Presets Folder…Rescan System Content Folders.
If you copy over to the new location make sure you delete the old folders or you will end up with duplicates if/when you rescan User Content.
I organized and placed all Kits and Presets in Folders (if not already) not the “All in the Pool” where All are loose in one Folder…BFD Will still scan/Find them
Mine are in C:\ProgramData\BFD Drums\BFD3\System\Presets but they still show up under ‘User’ in the library, I have lots of expansion presets that are in the same location but for some reason, BFD3 puts them in the user category.
I have to remind myself that I corrected all of the expansions (or what I consider “Corrected”) and most will still have those issues even tho it may not be considered an “issue”…to me it’s annoying.
First, I want to thank you for your help regarding the folder structure. I had several problems to resolve.
BFD was seeing the kits/presets from my downloads folder. Funny, I always wondered where these kits/presets were and how BFD was reading them.
My folder structure was incomplete and messy on the ‘Library’ side. [ ‘User’ side was unchanged and just fine]
I would scan just a single folder to keep things simple. I kept seeing a resources folder in the scan but when I would go to the drive, there was never a physical resources or system folder present.
When I did reorganize the path on the drive; Library> Application Support>BFD Drums>BFD3>
suddenly in the finder, I could now see the physical resources and the system folder present.
Once, I scanned [Library path] BFD3 folder, all the kits/presets immediately populated the folders and I could see the libraries were organized in the BFD GUI and I was able to play the samples in ProTools.
In summary, I recall that something went wrong on my initial download (performed many months prior) and I ended up closing out and rebooting my computer and did a ‘continuation’ installation and I think that is where I messed up and perhaps I selected a different location on the continuation or PT 2 of the download. That’s my best guess.
I hope this makes sense and can help someone else but I admit the language is difficult to articulate in this medium.
