I wouldn't be so derogatory as to call any of the drum vst's "unusable pieces garbage" it just depends what you're looking for. A friend of mine and I both agreed that BFD Eco is an unusable piece of garbage when we tested its presets. It only gives you one kit with missing articulations from the snare and hi-hats but it should give you a good idea of what it can do.
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I don't know how long this deal will last for but you can always download the BFD3 demo from the fxpansion site. I happen to really like some of the BFD2 kits as I quite like a big roomy live sound for some things. Th e BFD3 kits were recorded by platinum samples and are quite different from the ones that came with BFD2. All these channels are fed through a master ambient channels so to remove all the ambients can be done in one go. The comp channels are, as the name might suggest, channels that have been slightly compressed whilst retaining the kits natural feel. There are also 3 mono channels and 2 comp channels. It's the far room ones that give you the most air. There are 8 ambient channels in BFD3 although the main ones are Overhead, Room and far Room. Some of the BFD2 kits were recorded in some big rooms so yes, they were big and roomy sounding. Nothing wrong with an ambient sound: just not my thing at the moment. Do you agree? In the drum libraries I use (EZDrummer 2 is an example), I turn off all ambience, room, and bleed because my style is to go after separation in the drum kit pieces. He likes it but says it is optimized for an ambient sound and it takes some work to get good, separate drum sounds.
I have a few drum options but am always open for something different or better in the acoustic drum world. What's really sad is I'm waiting to get TT's Progressive and Independent at 50% off. Start with a basic set and twiddle until I get it right. Sometimes I guess immediately, sometimes I test and try and sometimes I do what twaddle does. 2 Gen 16 Digital Vault Z-Pack BFD Eco 1.5 by Fxpansion Addictive Drums by XLN Retro Expansion Pack Jazz Bushes Jazz Sticks Funk Reel Machines Metal Indie Black Velvet Black Oyster Blue Oyster Fairfax Vol 1 & 2 Session Percussion Vintage Dry All Kit Pieces All The drums in NI's K10 Ultimate Jamstix And to this day I still never know what will be right for a song.
2 SDX The Metal Foundry SDX Custom & Vintage SDX Music City SDX Roots Vol1 & Vol2 Evil Drums SDX by Platinum Samples BFD2/BFD3 by Fxpansion Sphere Imperial Oblivion Jex Expansion Rock Legends Quick Kit by Platinum Samples Alan Parsons Vintage 70s Alan Parsons Silver Sparkle Alan Parsons Black Oyster Schleisman Drums (and Snares) Heavy Yamaha Oak Yamaha Maple Signature Snares Vol. Let's see I have: Steven Slate Drums 4.0 Platinum CLA Rock Drums Daivd Bendeth Drums Terry Date Drums Blackbird Drums EZDrummer2 by Toontrack Americana EZX Claustrophobic EZX DFH EZX Electronic EZX Funk Masters EZX Jazz EZX Latin Percussion EZX Metal Heads EZX Metal Machine EZX Nashville EZX Pop! EZX Rock Solid EZX The Classic EZX Twisted EZX Vintage Rock EZX Progressive EZX Superior Drummer 2.x by Toontrack Metal Machinery SDX Rock Warehouse SDX New York Studios Vol. It would either be about 500GB or they would be very lacking in detail and sound pretty bad. WAV format, I hate to think how big the SSD4 would be if it were 100 separate kits. Given that BFD3 has 7 different kits and is 59GB in the new BFDLAC format and 167GB in. May only be the one kit? I could make 100 presets with one single kit quite easily. By the way, that's NOT, 100 different kits in SSD 4, it's just 100 presets. BFD Eco will probably be on sale over the Xmas and new year period, last year it could be got for and absurd $19 (It retails for £69 or $105) It's always hard to envisage how a kit is going to sound in your song until you actually hear it in your song and that for me, is why I like to be able to have the freedom to shape the raw sounds in the way that suits me because I can spend more time going through preset after preset and just getting frustrated than I do in creating my own sounds and presets.
You could of course get EZdrummer since you already own SD2 but if you want something that sounds different then this might not be your best option. If you want something simpler and easier to use and that sounds like none of the others then I would suggest BFD Eco which is superb value for money and very simple to use.
For me there is only one drum VST I would seriously recommend and that's FXpansions BFD3. The interface is very poor in my opinion, especially compared to Superior Drummer 2. I have SSD 4 (the light version) and never use it.