It’s impossible to cover all the additional libraries in this review, but I wanted to give you a pointer to a couple of my favourites so far. I thought the cajon samples were lacking a lot in expression but the rest were really great. Swan Percussion is a nice little addition of a bit unusual percussive instruments from the company Swan. But if I switch out the room sound for UAD Ocean Way Studios it quickly becomes a lot better. It sounds a bit stiff and sterile compared to AcousticSamples Percussiv. I wasn’t floored by this library however, but it covers a lot and it’s very usable. BFD Percussion is a very comprehensive library and will act as a bread and butter source of percussion for just about everyone. I decided to add BFD Percussion and Swan Percussion as well. I was completely floored by these to be honest. Evil Drums offers well recorded but dirty and real sounding drums that ooze of tape saturation while Modern Retro is more hifi sounding with that big late 90’s rock sound. But these aren’t for rock only, they can cover a lot of bases, but that’s what I bought them for.
The latter was produced by Chocolate Audio, the same company that is behind the legendary Imperial Drums library. These two libraries are some of the best I’ve ever heard in this category. Some are fairly old and repackaged but they still hold up really well to recently produced ones.įor rock drums I picked Platinum Samples Evil Drums and BFD Modern Retro. Even some of the BFD branded libraries are produced by third parties. It was not really to my personal taste however so I quickly started looking around for expansion packs and there are a lot of them available.įXPansion allows for third party companies to make libraries for BFD and this means that there is a lot of variety in the drum recordings. I think that a most people will be satisfied using only that one for all that they do. The core sample library of BFD3 sounds really good and cover a lot of styles. So I decided to take a look at BFD3 in hope to find the perfect drum plugin for me.ĭid I find it? Well, no. But even though the libraries sound great for their size I felt that there was a great bit of realism liveliness missing, and even though the groove packs, browsing and customisation was good I always felt limited in my creative process.
BFD3 DRUMS ARE MISSING SOFTWARE
The software is very intuitive and easy to get around. In my search for an alternative I got into Addictive Drums 2 for a while and I really liked their thought process behind producing the libraries.
But EZD always felt out of place in my mixes as it was too processed, and while SD2 offered the ability to tweak the sounds I felt that it was very limited in terms of workflow. They certainly don’t sound bad, in fact far from it. I liked the sound of it but it was too heavy for the hardware I had then, and by the time I had better hardware I was already well invested in the Toontrack line of products.īut I was never completely happy with the sound and workflow of the Toontrack products. One of the earliest was FXPansions BFD which I actually never really got into at the time. It was not until the beginning of the 2000’s that we finally got dedicated drum software that tried to solve this. The sample libraries became better and better during the 90s but there was still a lot of realism missing. But with the hardware at the time it was simply not realistic. I’ve been using sampled acoustic drums in my home computer based studio since the early 90s, and I remember dreaming of well recorded multi layered, multi sampled back then.
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