BFD for free (well almost)

[SRF]

Just got it too here in the UK. It's excellent, just incorporated it into a song I'm working on and it immediately sounds better, Jamstix + BFD demo is a fabulous combo. The way you can play with the mic settings is brilliant. Now trying very hard to avoid buying the real thing, and almost certainly doomed to failure... but I'll need that RAM upgrade first.

[chardin]

@SRF
How would you compare the BFD demo kit to the Jamstix internal sounds?

[Lind0n]

...(hard to find in Australia). There's usually one guy who gets the single copy that exists in the newsagent lol...

They have lots of copies down at McGills, Elizabeth Street Melbourne - woah, are we getting local or what?

[shanecgriffo]

down here in geelong there is a newsagent that gets the latest issue airmailed in, so i got it a couple of weeks ago. i've got this roland spd-6 drum pad thingy. the internal drum sounds are pretty crap (bass drum is ok and you can trigger with a foot pedal . i play it when i strum my guitar sometimes.} but it sounds pretty good when i hook it up to the computer and trigger stuff like the BFD demo. Damned if i know how to assign the different sounds to the pads tho' i just go with whatever comes out- the manual doesnt really make a lot of sense. if anyone knows anything about this roland pad i'd be grateful, can i do similar stuff as the post earlier that used midi yoke or whatever it is? i cant work it out

[Rangtangtang]

Temptation got the better of me when I went through the newsagent. Its very good, but maybe a bit overdone. Like, its not something you can't do whith freeware. Ive got too much on my hard-drive as it is now. I was impressed whith the visualistion side whith mike placement in BFD. I did think the hihat sounded too thick and blurry. I assume it uses a lot of CPU. Anyway that was my first impression of the BFD demo.

[rockstar_not]

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 !

Oops that's me too timmyo!

I'm eating my breakfast surfing this whole thread and I'm glad I read your post.

I will be buying a new PC soon, so perhaps I should just go ahead and track this down.

Is it better than the RMIV that comes with T2?

-Scott

[timmyo]

I've not used RMIV (non-US 'no rebate for you sonny jim' user here so I did online upgrade) but it does seem to have a very slick GUI and the mic mixing looks very powerful. Like you I'll be overhauling the PC at some point so it's owrth having around for then if nothing else.

Actually having had chance to have a go at BFD briefly (work laptop install - naughty timmyo) it occured to me that some of the drum sample tweaking (pitch, pan, ambience) are justa slicker implementation of similar controls in Jamstix, and the Jamstix pattern editor is way better. I'll probably eventually use Jamstix to drive these BFD samples to get the nice mic mixing features.

Have fun.

[Mr. Tingle]

if anyone knows anything about this roland pad i'd be grateful, can i do similar stuff as the post earlier that used midi yoke or whatever it is? i cant work it out

In BFD on the right there is a 'hit options' button. In that screen you can see a midi note for each drum. click the 'learn' button of the drum sound you wish to trigger, then hit the pad on the roland spd-6 you wish to make that sound. your done. repeat for each piece of the kit.

No need for Midi ox.

[Petronome]

I just got the magazine, but the BFD demo isn't working too well for me. Some sounds work, bass drum, hats and cymbals (at least some of them), but snare and toms don't. When I try to play a, say snare sound, I only get a rather loud 'click's (and when I look my Echo Audio Gina3G mixer, the output VU meter stays at the volume of the 'click' until another click). I have an Athlon XP1800+ processor and 512mb RAM in my computer, and I'm running the BFD samples from a WesternDigital drive (windows running on another hard disc). Where is the problem? Isn't my computer powerfull enough?

[koolkeys]

Are you streaming audio off the same drive as the samples? Sometimes this can cause it to hiccup also. If not, then maybe it's a latency issue. Have you tried raising your latency?

Koolkeys

[Lunch Money]

From what I understand (can't say for sure; still haven't tried it yet!) turning off animations also helps slower computers along.

[mm_FX]

Hi Petronome,

There was a problem with Athlon XP CPUs (1 or 2 stray SSE2 instructions crept in). You can download a fix, see this thread:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94676

[Petronome]

Thank you for the help, the patch solved the problem! I wasn't aware of that..

Anyway, this program seems AWESOME! I guess I gotta buy the whole thing when I have money...

[Angus_FX]

(duplicate post)

[valley]

Is it better than the RMIV that comes with T2?

Completely different animals really.

It's more flexible than RMIV. If you are accustomed to micing kits, it'd likely be much faster to get the sound you are after from BFD. If you aren't RMIV may be easier to use.

A lot of it comes downs to kits though. If you find kits for RMIV that you really like, it's debatable how much need you'd have for BFD. If on the other hand the kits that comes with BFD are everything you could ever want ...