BFD3

Evolved Acoustic Drum Software

BFD3 is designed to sound great while offering as much depth as you need. Browse for entire presets, quickly compile custom kits or mould any drum sound you desire by retuning, damping, and processing multiple mics with the powerful internal mixing engine.

The built-in Groove section offers a versatile range of session drummer performances alongside pattern editing and creation functions. Select from a wide range of musical drum rudiments and paint your own realistic parts.

Intelligent Drum and Dynamics Modelling

BFD3 introduces modelled tom resonance and bleed which provides a natural-sounding 'glue' which blends the sound of the kit together. The modelling varies with the characteristics and tuning of any combination of drums - something that cannot be achieved only by using samples. BFD3 also includes improved dynamics matching across drums and a swell-modelling algorithm for more realistic cymbal washes.

Effects and Workflow Enhancements

The internal BFD3 mixing engine has DCAM-modelled compression, filtering and other effects alongside great-sounding EQ and algorithmic reverbs. You can even use an external signal as a compression sidechain source.

Workflow enhancements let you hide multiple drum and ambient mics for simpler mixing approaches and it's easy to route multiple channels to discrete outputs for processing with other plugins or outboard gear. BFD3 even provides multi-channel audio export direct to disk. Grooves can be exported using drag and drop - perfect for compiling loops.

Product Features

• 7 new kits recorded in 2 locations
• Dedicated rock, metal, jazz and brush kits
• More detail in less disk space
• Tom resonance / cymbal swell modelling
• Streamlined browser and workflow
• Faster, more efficient audio engine
• Extendable interface for larger screens
• New effects including algorithmic reverb and DCAM EnvShaper
• Wide range of mix-ready presets
• Fully editable, improved groove engine
• Rudiments tool for creating grooves
• Grooves by Steve Ferrone, Brooks Wackerman, Bobby Jarzombek, Peter Erskine & Stanton Moore courtesy of Platinum Samples
• VST, AU and AAX plugin formats & standalone version

Mac:

• macOS 10.11 or higher
• Apple Silicon compatible*
• dual-core processor (quad-core recommended)
• RAM: 3GB

*Pro Tools AAX is not currently supported and still requires Rosetta. Cubase12 requires Rosetta currently also, given that in M1 Native mode Steinberg have chosen to not support VST2.

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• dual-core processor (quad-core recommended)
• RAM: 3GB