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timmyo · Post by **timmyo** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:06 pm

Finally tracked downa copy of the Mag nly to find that my 'original' Athlon is not compatible with the freebie (Athlon XP is with a patch but older Athlons just plain are not). This is not documented anywhere in the mag or the demo setup or readme file yet Computer Music will not refund - so anyone who is running an old Athlon (which thinking about it you probably are not - just me stuck in the year 2000 !) and who was going to buy the mag purely for the freebie - don't !

AndrewSimon · Post by **AndrewSimon** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:10 pm

Mr. Tingle wrote: I would like to have a look at those files, you can email them to me if its convenient.

http://www.andras-shimon.com/TEMP/Snare.oxm
http://www.andras-shimon.com/TEMP/HiHat.oxm
http://www.andras-shimon.com/TEMP/Toms.oxm
http://www.andras-shimon.com/TEMP/Cymbals.oxm

MAKE SURE the DD-55 is on the default "00" kit!

Mr. Tingle · Post by **Mr. Tingle** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:41 pm

Cheers AndrewSimon - I've had ago with your midi ox presets and they are most useful in helping to make sense of midi ox.

I've come to the conclusion that until the hi-hat can be succesfully remapped to another pad using the default dd55 kit, the best kit I can come up with is simply by using the midi panel in BFD and not using midi ox at all.

If anyone is interested I could post my custom bfd program file for use with yamaha dd55 - no midi ox or midi yoke required.

mm_FX · Post by **mm_FX** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:55 pm

timmyo wrote:Finally tracked downa copy of the Mag nly to find that my 'original' Athlon is not compatible with the freebie (Athlon XP is with a patch but older Athlons just plain are not). This is not documented anywhere in the mag or the demo setup or readme file yet Computer Music will not refund - so anyone who is running an old Athlon (which thinking about it you probably are not - just me stuck in the year 2000 !) and who was going to buy the mag purely for the freebie - don't !

We are aware of this problem and will try and fix it eventually. Unfortunately the number of users of Thunderbird-era Athlons is really really small, so this isn't a massively-high priority fix for us. Nevertheless we will try and fix it when we have a spare moment.

Meanwhile, you guys might be interested in checking out the manual for BFD 1.5, to see what goodies you can expect if you buy the full version of BFD...

www.fxpansion1.com/bfd15-manual.pdf

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:55 pm

I've made a guide for using the Yamaha DD-55 together with BFD and other VST drum kits.
It's at: http://members.home.nl/mistermouse/dd55/dd55.htm

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:48 pm

Anyone seen this in the US yet? Here's to hoping it comes a bit early! I do use DR-008 very loyally. But seeing as it's the same company, and it's drums, I want to see what BFD can do for me that DR-008 can't. Or if I should wait for Drum-Nine. Any word on that yet from FXpansion?

Koolkeys

z15 · Post by **z15** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:58 pm

got the cm89... the bfd demo is very good. i wasn't so impressed by the audio demos on the fxpansion pages before for some reason but tweaking and playing the little limited kit did it for me.

i would probably be cursing about not having money to buy the full version any time soon but the fact is that my laptop is having hard time even with the demo (and my hd is almost full) so i'll probably have to wait until i upgrade my system... oh well. maybe sometime next year.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:10 pm

You in the US?

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:04 pm

Ooo... I had almost forgotten that BFD likes to use up some GPU. Mine is puny, so this might not work all that well for me. I'll still snag it, though.

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:51 am

If you switch off the animations, it won't make your GPU sweat.

z15 · Post by **z15** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:00 am

koolkeys, nopes, i'm in finland - sorry.

philipc68 · Post by **philipc68** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:50 pm

koolkeys wrote:Anyone seen this in the US yet? Here's to hoping it comes a bit early! I do use DR-008 very loyally. But seeing as it's the same company, and it's drums, I want to see what BFD can do for me that DR-008 can't. Or if I should wait for Drum-Nine. Any word on that yet from FXpansion?

Koolkeys

Yes, I got my copy from Bungalow News in Pasadena last week.

P

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:58 pm

Angus_FX wrote:If you switch off the animations, it won't make your GPU sweat.

Coolio. Makes the $21.95 (CDN) a non-issue now; whereas before it seemed like a small risk. Danged UK mags. There are more UK offerings with cover discs in general (PC Plus, etc. often have other non-music freebies that are good value) but to pay the extra for import just makes you feel like you're buying an actual product of some sort and not just some magazine.

Greg

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:10 am

Weekend of boomer-eating has kept me from looking into B&K's hallowed halls. Anyone see it on the shelf in the US yet?

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:47 pm

got it today (italy), five minutes tests and it rocks, even without tweaking much my vdrum.

defenitely convinced and awaiting 1.5

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