Products from BFD

An expansion for BFD3 that combines an immaculately recorded Yamaha Maple Custom drum kit with a set of artist presets and bonus jazz grooves from Platinum Samples. At its centre is a kit with two kicks and three toms full of classic maple warmth and sustain, joined by a bonus reduced-detail snare taken from BFD Signature Snares Vol.1 and Sabian cymbals from BFD Jazz and...

An expansion pack for BFD3, recorded in a dry, intimate-sounding room at Omega Studios, Maryland, USA, offering a whole spectrum of fresh flavours for your productions. BFD Jazz and Funk is centred around three exquisitely recorded kits and a wide range of hyper-detailed extras, with most instruments provided in stick and brush versions and selected pieces also played with...

An expansion for BFD3 containing a versatile Yamaha maple drum kit that suits all genres of music. Warm, refined and one of the most advanced kits made by Yamaha, the Maple Custom Absolute suits all genres of music, especially pop, indie, rock, jazz, classic metal and fusion. The kick was played with two beater types and the toms with sticks, mallets and rods, and a bonus...

An expansion for BFD3 featuring a high-end, custom hand-made kit from XDrum’s Xotica line. The drums have 6-ply Keller maple shells with an additional ply of Sapeli Pommele running vertically for a focused low end, and the hand-applied tung oil finish offers a very open tone. The kick was recorded with two beater types and a Yamaha SubKick mic for extreme low end, while the...

A collection of five premium metal-shell snare drums for BFD3, desired for their brighter, louder sound with increased overtones. The five snares from Sonor, Gretsch, Zildjian, Ludwig and Pearl differ in material, shell thickness, depth and diameter, from brass and bronze to steel and aluminium, offering a wide array of sounds for metal, rock, pop and other genres. Each...

An expansion pack featuring marching band drums, cymbals and percussion for your BFD3 installation. These instruments can be swapped into drum kits or used to create street-style percussive grooves: the marching snares offer explosive crack and punch, while the four sizes of tonal bass drums rival celebrated analogue drum machines for sheer low-end power. Other highlights...

An expansion pack for BFD3 featuring a Yamaha Oak Custom drum kit with a sound full of body and devastating low end. The toms of BFD Oak Custom were played with sticks, mallets and hot rods for extra versatility, and the kick with two beater types, wood and felt. The pack also includes a reduced-detail Yamaha bamboo snare from BFD Signature Snares Vol. 1 and bonus samples of...

An expansion pack for BFD3 with a pair of drum kits that helped define the sound of the 90s and early 2000s. Produced and recorded by Chocolate Audio, the team behind BFD Imperial Drums, BFD Modern Retro combines extreme levels of detail with varied mic channels and beater types to deliver remarkably expressive drums with a wide timbral range. The 70 instruments include a...

An expansion pack for BFD3 with a diverse collection of cymbals and hi-hats from the Sabian archives, suitable for all styles of music. BFD Sabian Digital Vault brings together meticulously sampled classics, prototypes and one-offs from the Sabian archives, including HHX and AAX series favourites, unique stacked cymbal setups, esoteric percussion cymbals and four...

An expansion pack for BFD3 that delivers a unique set of concert percussion for film and commercial composition, progressive music production and creative sound design. BFD Orchestral features orchestral bass drums, snares and hand cymbals alongside chromatically tuned timpani and concert chimes, sampled over one and a half octaves and well suited to unusual melodic lines....

The second instalment of Yamaha artist signature snares for BFD3: five detailed and immaculately recorded snares with varied beater types to swap into your kits. BFD Signature Snares Vol. 2 comprises five Yamaha snares: the Steve Gadd signature model with a brass shell, a Chamberlin snare with a steel shell, the birch Robinson signature model, the Paul Leim model with a...

An expansion pack for BFD3 with a collection of Yamaha artist signature snares to swap into your kits. BFD Signature Snares Vol. 1 offers the usual high levels of detail with multiple channels and articulations and contains five Yamaha snares, including the signature models of Roy Haynes, Dave Weckl and Mike Bordin as well as a bamboo snare and an FHP fibreglass snare. They...