Good evening,
Just thinking through the drum vst options for my Receptor 2 pro max and had a quick question.
BFD 2.1 can be installed on a Receptor - are the various expansion packs available with BFD also installable on Receptor? I'm assuming that they are just sample libraries that need to be copied over?
Also, I'd be planning on using a Td9-sx kit, in logic, with sounds generated via uniwire. Not sure if there are any considerations folks would be willing to share. I'm assuming that I might need to record the midi first via a lower latency solution than uniwire? Thanks for the help!
BFD expansion packs
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi Mr. Hudson,
I have BFD 2 installed on my Receptor 2 Pro Max, and I have the BDF XFL expansion pack loaded. Yes, you can simply copy the expansion pack library, but you still need to do a couple of things: You will need to run the fxpansion authorizer to authorize the expansion (same way you authorize BFD 2 on Receptor), and you will need to add a path to the library in the Options dialog from within Receptor 2. I think you will also need to run a scan to build the internal DB.
I found latency to be OK with Uniwire, but I'm sure you'd get better responsiveness if you were to do without (eg. MIDI & ADAT IO).
I've never asked Muse this, but I wonder if there could be such a thing as 1/2 Uniwire - eg. Trigger via MIDI, but Digital Audio output from Receptor to DAW via Ethernet. I wonder if this would push latency for Uniwire from 2x (buffer size) back to 1x. The 2X latency can be a deal breaker for things like Ocean Way drums (I still haven't been able to reasonably optimize OWD kontakt settings to usable levels with Uniwire).
Hope this helps, Regards,
Kevin L
I have BFD 2 installed on my Receptor 2 Pro Max, and I have the BDF XFL expansion pack loaded. Yes, you can simply copy the expansion pack library, but you still need to do a couple of things: You will need to run the fxpansion authorizer to authorize the expansion (same way you authorize BFD 2 on Receptor), and you will need to add a path to the library in the Options dialog from within Receptor 2. I think you will also need to run a scan to build the internal DB.
I found latency to be OK with Uniwire, but I'm sure you'd get better responsiveness if you were to do without (eg. MIDI & ADAT IO).
I've never asked Muse this, but I wonder if there could be such a thing as 1/2 Uniwire - eg. Trigger via MIDI, but Digital Audio output from Receptor to DAW via Ethernet. I wonder if this would push latency for Uniwire from 2x (buffer size) back to 1x. The 2X latency can be a deal breaker for things like Ocean Way drums (I still haven't been able to reasonably optimize OWD kontakt settings to usable levels with Uniwire).
Hope this helps, Regards,
Kevin L
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- KVRist
- 184 posts since 28 Apr, 2004
I am running BFD 1.5 on my Receptor and have a couple of the expansions installed (XFL and DLX).
As far as installation goes, all I had to do was install the packs onto my PC so that I could choose the largest quality sample set and then copy them over to the Receptor drive. It took a little while to copy the files over, but once they were there it was smooth sailing!
projektio
As far as installation goes, all I had to do was install the packs onto my PC so that I could choose the largest quality sample set and then copy them over to the Receptor drive. It took a little while to copy the files over, but once they were there it was smooth sailing!
projektio
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 93 posts since 10 Feb, 2009
Great, good to hear. I'm trying to decide between BFD, Superior 2.0, etc., for home recording purposes, don't really need these sounds live - but BFD seems to be the best, "currently purchasable" option for the Receptor that isn't very expensive (like oceanway gold). Would be nice to be able to load my drum sounds onto my pro2max to use with the ekit. Superior 2.0 can be had for very cheap right now, though.....Thanks again......
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- KVRist
- 184 posts since 28 Apr, 2004
I am pretty happy with BFD. I use it with a Yamaha electronic kit for doing demo stuff (I'm not a drummer). I think what attracted me to BFD and the expansions were the quality of the sounds. Mind you that always boils down to personal preference.
I think that Superior has some pretty nice options. I could be wrong, but doesn't that program let you load up your own drum samples? I think you can with BFD, but it takes some wrangling to accomplish it. Personally if the preloaded sounds are good enough for writing/arranging, why change them up?
Also, I have EZ Drummer loaded on my DAW and I like the vintage rock and country expansions. If I don't want to actually perform the patterns, it comes with some really basic and nice MIDI patterns.
projektio
I think that Superior has some pretty nice options. I could be wrong, but doesn't that program let you load up your own drum samples? I think you can with BFD, but it takes some wrangling to accomplish it. Personally if the preloaded sounds are good enough for writing/arranging, why change them up?
Also, I have EZ Drummer loaded on my DAW and I like the vintage rock and country expansions. If I don't want to actually perform the patterns, it comes with some really basic and nice MIDI patterns.
projektio
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Kevin@MuseResearch Kevin@MuseResearch https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=200693
- MUSEician
- 188 posts since 11 Feb, 2009
Although we don't officially support all the BFD libraries, I have heard from a lot of people who have had success installing them, some you have to install on a computer first (the disks have compressed files) but others you can just drag the samples over to the BFD/data folders and then rebuild all databases from within BFD 2. Registration still happens through the BFD 2 registration utility.
- Kevin
- Kevin