I do still customize things a bit, but not nearly as much as in BFD, where I would spend eons on bleed, mic mixes, etc. Re-saving the pitch-shifted kit piece would be expected to take care of the artifacts, but it sounds very artificial to me whereas BFD's pitch shifting sounded very natural to me even if by as much as a minor third.Īs a result, I have changed the way I work, and now choose drum kits based on the pitches they were recorded at, alongside the other considerations such as resonance, how the kit fits the song and genre, etc.

Unlike in BFD, I find that tuning the kit pieces is a disaster, even if by just a hair. I never use presets I always start with the raw kits. It's really easy to go to the Mix page and turn off all the weird stuff that is modeled as a microphone, such as the pre-compressed drums, and other such stuff that doesn't always play well with projects but might work well live.

Finally, SD3 is almost on part feature-wise, and the newer libraries are as detailed as BFD's but usually better recorded (although BFD has been up to the challenge with their recent additions). SD3 is what spurred me to finally move away from BFD3 - a VI that I have been unhappy with since Day 1, as I feel they removed some important features and workflows from BFD2.

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