Release Year: 2013
Producer: Ask Video
Producer’s Website: www.askvideo.com/course/bfd3-demystified
Author: Matt Vanacoro
Duration: 02:13:00
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
Description: FXpansion has updated its amazing software—the flagship drum module BFD3. Watch this course and see how all the new features and technologies in BFD3 will power your drum programming to perfection.
It’s a Big Freaking Deal when FXpansion updates their amazing flagship drum software. Watch this course and see how all the BFD3 features and technologies will power your drum programming to perfection…
BFD3 is perhaps the most sophisticated drum machine in anyone’s percussion plugin palette. That’s why we hooked up with the most sophisticated and knowledgeable trainer in our music-tech universe, Matt Vanacoro!
In this course, Matt leads you through every inch of this amazing FXpansion product showing how the BFD3 feature set gets you producing the most realistic and innovative drum tracks possible. You learn everything about BFD3 including Kit design, Effects, Performance techniques, Sampling, V-Drum mapping, Groove creation, mixing and so much more.
Matt covers the all important details of this instrument and all along the way he tosses in the expert tips that he’s perfected as a longtime BFD programmer.
This 32-tutorial course will not only explain BFD3, it will inspire you to wrangle all of the deep BFD technology and put it to work making your drum tracks as powerful as they can possibly be!
Content :
01. Introduction To BFD3 (01:01)
02. Installation and Sample Libraries (03:40)
03. Optimization and Preferences (05:27)
04. Plugins, Standalone and Application Preferences (05:36)
05. The Virtual Tour (04:24)
06. Working With Presets (04:40)
07. The Kits Window (03:20)
08. Working With Individual Drums (05:09)
09. An Introduction to Effects (04:23)
10. An Overview of the Mixer (03:14)
11. BFD Performance, Detail and Layers (05:45)
12. The Tech Panel (04:53)
13. The Modeling Panel (07:23)
14. Importing Custom Samples (04:59)
15. Exporting Audio From BFD (04:17)
16. Editing and Assigning Key Maps (04:50)
17. V-Drum Mapping Tips (06:09)
18. Getting MIDI and Audio Into Your DAW (03:04)
19. Automation (04:48)
20. Browsing Grooves and Palettes (02:03)
21. Creating Your Own Drum Track (02:16)
22. Editing a Groove (03:45)
23. Step Recording Your Own Groove (05:44)
24. Live Recording Your Own Groove (02:52)
25. Saving and Exporting Grooves (02:20)
26. Mixing and Panning (03:49)
27. Tweaking Your Mix (02:53)
28. Sends and Busses (05:11)
29. Working With Effects (04:56)
30. Using Multi-Out (02:36)
31. What’s New in BFD3 (05:20)
32. What’s Next / Expanding BFD (01:30)
Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30,000 fps, ~484 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 96.0 kbps, 2 channels
