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Originally posted by LumenStudio
I thought I was the only one with every acoustic drum sample CD known to man. I must have been ignorant skipping DFH superior. Does it really blow away BFD? |
For me, absolutely. If I was doing alt folk/acoustic music then BFD would have covered that. I'm mainly involved in pop/rock and BFD didn't have the meat and potatoes for me. Kicks with no natural subs and snares with no natural tops and not a lot of choice either. The hats were unusable for me and they should have replaced those (and the cymbals) with a free update. Also there were no brushes or blasticks. They have those areas covered with their new expansion pack but they are going to charge you a lot of money for it.
DFHS comes with everything you will need. The drums are recorded more to my taste although they still have no processing. These guys know how to record drums.
Also you have to check out the bleed mike controls. Man this thing sounds like the drummer is in the next room. The bleed is just so real.
Also there is the ability to bounce your tracks from within the app.
I did not like the room sound in BFD at all and it's my guess that the overall dullnes of the samples has something to do with the programming of the room and ambience controls.
DFHS is the closest thing to a real kit but be warned, you must have your drum engineering chops together. You will be using the same techniques as you would with a real kit.
Check out the Toontracks site. The latest version runs very well with PT via Rewire and I use it every day.
Read the manual thoroughly paying particular attention to the cache switch and have plenty of Ram and a fast computer.