BFD Drums

Sounds great, works great. No complaints here. Drums are solid and have plenty of variations. Will be playing with it a bunch in the future.

I personally have always liked BFD Drums. I have read some of the negative reviews and disagree. Yes for you it may need updating for the current climate of modern music but for myself, I find this appealing due to the nature of my work. I have to replicate old styles of music in my compositions and BFD does this for me.

I use many other drum software also, each has its place depending what I want to achieve.

great sounding library that is incredibly useful and very versatile for the kind of music that I make.

Anice expansion giving the BFD free player a few more options and grooves to play with. Sounds and feels great.

I regret buying it - I've been disappointed by the sound and usability (and don't start me on the licensing stuff). I wish I'd saved my money and bought EZ Drummer 3 (which I will get now). It sounds old and needs a massive update to be in the same league as it's main competitors.

I love the program, I run it on a Mac and it runs great, I'm looking forward to 4, there should be more goodies and I like goodies. I think with this program, if you like to tweak and play, it's great, if you want it to do everything for you, , well maybe that's part of any issues. I'm a button turner so I dig it. Great Sounds!!! Love the DW stuff.

A once mighty piece of software has been decimated by long periods of no development. Sadly the future does not look bright with the take-over by inMusic.

The new licence manager for BFD3, for example, introduced a 90-day subscription-style reauthorisation system. Even though you buy a perpetual licence you have to reauthorise BFD3 online every 90 days. This was introduced with no new terms of agreement and it was the users that spotted this change with no announcement from inMusic. I do not believe the website has ever been updated to reflect this new system.

Perhaps you're OK with reauthorising every 90 days. Except the software is so buggy it may not let you do this, or may do it at a seemingly random time period other than 90 days. You will not be able to use BFD3 at all if this happens.

I state this facts so that potential customers know exactly what they're getting into as inMusic surely won't tell you.

I've used BFD for many years to get better sounds for my electronic drum setup. I mostly want the raw, unprocessed sounds as these make playing feel more realistic. Processed sounds are fun but can "muddy up" the feel of your playing quite a bit.

The transition to InMusicBrands has been a bit tough but I'm hoping that this will be resolved soon.