its been a while. My last time writing over at fxpansion.com in the forum must have been around 2013-ish. Now in 2023 I set up my new studio, and (after almost 10 years of absence) wanted to use my trusty BFD3 which I upgraded to via discount some years ago. But then life took some turns and I never got to use it really.
Now I come back just to realize: BFD belongs no mor to fxpansion, and to further use my software I must migrate my account. Something along those lines.
I was in touch with support, but couldnāt get my account running (solved as per now) nor BFD3. The license manager just refuses to install, because a āinstance of BFD3 License manager is runningā. Yeah. Totally makes sense.
Can someone please wake me up and tell me this is just a nightmare? I was a happy fxpansion customer, and had very, very good memories using BFD2. What the hell?
Am I the only one experiencing such inconvenience? Can someone please put me in the picture? I feel like everything went south with BFDā¦
10 years is an eternity (and then some) for the Software/Sampling Worldā¦ Fxpansion was aquired by ROLI in 2016ā¦
Needless to say ROLI didnāt do much with itā¦ Aquired by InMusic 2020 ā¦and currently going through the processā¦BFD Drums (inMusic)
For the most part and what I have gatheredā¦the Fxpansion Team is intact missing a few playersā¦SKoT McDonald Principal Software Engineer (inMusic)ā¦Angus Hewlet,Rhiannon McLaren are/were with ImageLine (FL Studio etc)ā¦John Emrichā¦NFUZDā¦then Alesis (inMusic)ā¦and as far as I know he gave notice Nov 2022 and his last day was about 3 months agoā¦
Drew and the rest are busy rebuilding/getting BFD current,(macos,Vst3,AAx etc)ā¦and the next phaseā¦BFD Playerā¦and BFD4ā¦ as with other developers COVID slowed it all down.
If by āNewā Studio means a new machine you are going to have to Migrate if you installed using all the Fxpansion Installers as the Fxpansion servers are gone and the old Auth/Serial numbers etc are no longer validā¦and installation locations have changedā¦and the most important changeā¦the Software does a online serial number check every 90 days.
You will need all your info (email address,Serials etc) from your Fxpansion accountā¦
You are also required to have an inMusic Account/profile ā¦sounds like from what is in your post you have already done thisā¦
Follow the Migration processā¦check through the āNew forumā posts there are members here that will assist as much as possible and issues with the old BFD1 and BFD2 core libraries (they are now expansions Eldoradoā¦London Sessionsā¦Percussion) contact Drewā¦
If youāve already done the migration from your Fxpansion account to inMusic (which it sounds like you did), then most of your products will automatically transfer over with new serial #'s to inMusic, no prob. However, there were a few products that werenāt eligible for migration including, BFD1, BFD2, ECO and a few of the earlier expansions. You should be able to get replacement serials for that stuff. Read here:
Note that for BFD1 + 2, you will need to authorize the new serials for those, Eldorado and London Sessions and download the audio content for those. You wonāt be able to use the existing installs you have of BFD1 + 2 because they are packaged differently. The inMusic LM and BFD3 will only recognize the Eldorado and London Sessions expansions. Same audio content.
Take note that your user/Documents location with presets, kits, maps and grooves, etc., is now BFD Drums and not Fxpansion. You can have the new BFD3 migrate (at any time) your old user files, or just manually move/copy them to the BFD Drums location.
Thereās some good and bad with the move to inMusic, but if you can get BFD running, the experience will be similar for the most part.
Hey guy, thank you so much for your help! Itās great to see the old spirit alive and well!
@Steve63 Hey pal, I remember your forum picture as well as your name. We had plenty of discussions, all of them in good spirit; feels even more home now to see you pop up here!
I know that the time Iāve been away from BFD software is in computer terms quite an aeon! So, I did not expect everything to run right from the beginning. Well, I am glad that some of the old staff are still on board.
@Tumulte Thank you for your brief summary of what I have missed so far (āLately on BFD3ā¦ā) - the links you supported have also been send to me by the support (Sam). I think in a matter of (hopefully) a short amount of time I should be good to go. As of today I received another mail from support, and I think I am close to the finish line. Iāll keep you informed.
It was quite a shock to see so many changes that collapsed over me like a Tsunami. And I was even more shocked to hear that all authorisations are nil now, and you have to start on a fresh page.
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If by āNewā Studio means a new machine you are going to have to Migrate if you installed using all the Fxpansion Installers as the Fxpansion servers are gone and the old Auth/Serial numbers etc are no longer validā¦
I really meant new, as in new rooms, new gear (for the most part) - moving from one side of the building to another, more secluded area with proper acoustic treatment. My old Tascam DM3200 (now 15 years old, but still in service and reliable and trusty as ever) is still up and running though
I initially (not knowing about the changes around BFD) installed all the old libraries (I thought, I had that done and could install BFD3 on top of it allā¦) - as it turns out, this already was one big mistake.
YES! Got it running - migrated my account, got BFD3 finally installed (only to find out the core library does not consist of my BFD2 library) - but hey: all in all I am quite happy
Might dive into the BFD2 issue later that year, for the time being I gotta sort things out. Oh - not to forget! My Taiko Drums, Maple Custom, Oak Custom, ZIldjian Vault as well as BFD heavy are freshly installed, authorized and usable. Again. After ten years. Oh the memories!
Just jumping in to say thanks for the history lesson. Itās all starting to make more sense now.
I am in a similar situation - over 10 years away (various health issues, living off grid etcā¦). Had no idea FXansion had dropped BFD. Itās weird to be ābackā. I still canāt figure out if BFD is a dying product or an āexclusiveā product with less aggressive marketingā¦
Anyway, I have a quick questionā¦ has anyone else found their old FXpansion login fails? Iāve just submitted a ticket with ROLI ā¦ just wondering if it was a common issue. I need to access my old FX account to migrate old sample packs, right?
