Product Reviews by KVR Members

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 got this recently for $12 on plugin boutique. At this price, hardly worth it. The vast number of presets are padded out with a bunch of versions for some presets that sound hardly different. Nothing inspiring here, and ugly interface. Surge xt is infinitely better for free. Uninstalled it in a flash.

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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.

Extremely versatile sound design, has many capabilities not found in many plugins today.

Unique Features:

Curve controlled or phase morphing wavetable generation (as oppose to Crossfade in Serum/ Vital). Detailed curve editing and morphing that also applies to MSEGs.

Full Additive Wavetable Oscillator. Morphs either a Waveshape or Spectrum and includes Spectral Distortion which detunes the partials into inharmonics. And with unique wavetable warp FX.

Crispy and realistic sounding Comb/ Modal resonator. The Comb filter is not just a comb filter, but a reverb/ chorus / karplus-strong string synthesis.

Ring modulator capable of FM/ Frequency Shifting modes (Sideband filter).

FM module with unique FM modes other than just linear/exponential.

Repro's wavefolder with teeth amount.

Large library of Filters with analog modeling and Filter FM that can be modulated by an Oscillator

Good sounding effects including granular cloud reverb and tap delay

CPU usage is significantly optimized, though can spike on heavy patches.

Unique modulators such as a Math modulator and a Mapping modulator which allows for quick sequencing or psuedo-random modulation.

Exciter Generator for realistic physical modeling impulses

4 lane Modular Setup

Cons:

No Feedback, the modular setup is Up to Down with side inputs for parallel processing.

No Granular Oscillator or Sampler, if you want an all-in-one plugin, this is one feature that is missing.

Non-intuitive UI, such as the confusing FMO generator.

Long learning curve for mastery

Verdict:

Absolutely worth it if you like hybrid synths that combine many different modes of synthesis into one package. For example, rather than taking say Harmor/ Razor / Parsec/ etc and routing it into FM8 or some other FM effect, this synth gives you the ability to FM an additive oscillator in the same environment. Or perhaps you want to stack physical modeling resonators and analog filters with fast decay and high res to create percussive metallic sounds? The possibilities will make you feel like a mad scientist, combining completely different synthesis capabilities together and experimenting with sound in new ways.

The Additive Wavetable oscillator is the greatest selling point and adds new sound-generating capabilties evolving on the now-passed Wavetable era. Wavetable synths are restricted to harmonic and periodic sounds, but Additive Wavetables allow you to control every sine partial so that they aren't just integer ratio. Combining partial control with deep waveshape editing is something that no synth has ever done and adds new capabilities to a sound designer.

very useful for garage snares, definitely a must-try later on in my productions; also possible for creating some magic soundscapes.

I had two thirds of a song done with only three instances of this VST open in FL Studio in the first 10 minutes. The features surpass the original Otomata program and give me several ideas for new songs.

This looks really interesting. The sounds seem very authentic and good, but I wasn't able to really test it because it crashes within a few seconds of play in Reaper, win10.

:(.

It's a really fun program, especially for people with little to no coding experience. You can create just about anything with it.

good plugin really happy i got this and its fully functional and is a go to plugin for me couldnt be any happier.