FREE - BFD Player Drums! Best FREE Drums of 2023?

Got it to work, but i cant get it to record in Bandlab. Any links on how to set the outputs. Cheers.

Mike, did you send me a message? I have no idea on how to do what you asked if you did. Cheers.

Can it work as a standalone without a DAW?
I record with a Tascam Model 12 sd recorder and i got nice piano stand alone VSTs. But i'm still looking for free standalone drum VST. I like to have VST shortcuts on my desktop. i click on it, press record on my tascam and the VST with a midi controler.
Any suggestions on free drum VST that runs like this on Window without a DAW?

BFD is very nice, but I'd give the award to Modo Drum from IK Multimedia. Only one drum kit in the free version, but a lot more control.

Hi Mike. I loved this video, showing you outside of the studio. It's very pleasant to see you in your kitchen, in the day-to-day life. Thank you very much for this kind video.

Soo-Hoo! BFD was always my favorite drum VST.
I think they are making a big play to come back and hit the virtual drums world HARD!
😎👍👍

Hey Mike, Greetings from South America. Many thanks for your continued support.

thanks for the video it's amazing

Hi Mike. Are you still using Cakewalk ? :)

Hi, Mike. Love your videos, but I have an issue with your sponsor. A few years ago, I took a full year to arrange, perform and record a 33-song dual CD of instrumental Christmas music. Everyone who has heard it, has immediately purchased the album. Since some of the songs are not in the public domain yet, DistroKid is demanding that I pay $288 PER YEAR, every year for the rest of my life just to have the privilege of making the music available to anyone who wishes to hear classic Holiday music from their childhood. Even though I own mechanical licenses for the songs that aren't in the public domain, and were purchased from another source, DistroKid says I HAVE TO purchase new ones from them at $12 each! I don't expect to make a penny from the albums, but as a working musician, I cannot afford to shell out that kind of money just to post my music online. I WILL NOT RECOMMEND DISTROKID TO ANYONE, and I will make sure that everyone I know understands just how DistroKid works.

Its a pretty decent kit for a free one. Heads up though for anyone wanting to use it. This vst is VERY cpu demanding

I downloaded it, & spent the next two days trying to register it. No matter what passwords I used, they were rejected. I finally got it after using a computer generated password. So, I bought up a track I was working on & thought I'd try the Snare sound. all good there, so I went to a track I had with midi Toms, loaded in the BFD on that track, wouldn't you know it, had to sign in again. Then it wouldn't accept the PC generated password I'd used to get it in the first place. I gave up in frustration & uninstalled the whole thing. I don't need that sort of time consumption in my life.

wannabe toontracks?

BUT free

you actually forgot to mention the best part: the "Original Mix" preset, which gives you access to ALL OF THE MICs in the kit, I'm talking Kick In/Out, Snare In/Out, OHs, Room, Ambi, everything

this gives you lots of flexibility when it comes to mixing down your mix, since you use one of the in/out mics for, say a trigger; possibility are fkin' endless

dead link please fix

What is the trick in downloading BFD Drum player? My download of the zip file stops at 5,232,636 KB.

You have to be online to use it! That sucks!!

Yes, Mike, this is the best free drum plugin I've come across. Thanks for the review.

Won't unzip for me, says its corrupt!

Your Gretch sounds amazing! I recently bought the made in Japan White Falcon second hand and it is like yours sound wise.

Sounds great but its too large.

Watch it, NOT FREE. In addition to your email address they want your First Name, Last Name, Date Of Birth! and the country where you live. Even more slimy, you are not told any of this until you have installed everything and TRY TO launch it in your DAW!

More features coming as they finish BFD 4 and they update the compatibility between it and older expansions.

Nice review Mike - great to see BFD back in the free options.

Hi Mike:
Something that am willing to know is: Can we import our own grooves on that ?
Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the pointer Mike. Wow, there sure is a lot of stuff here... almost to the point where one hardly knows where to start. With the grooves, anyway: but probably a bit of study of the filtering will clarify things. The grooves play fine for me, to address a few of the comments below.

As far as the sounds go, I'm planning to do an A/B comparison with MTPower drum kit and SSD; but that's for another day. (Anyone tried this so far, I wonder)?

I'm mostly back on Reaper these days by the way. Wonder what your thoughts are about the discontinuation of free Cakewalk? I'm glad it was available for a while; enabled me to recover some old projects that I only had as bundles. Guess it was too much to expect that it would stay free for ever..... :-(

I like free plugins like this because I can use it to blend it with other free VSTi and then it really sounds much better

I got BFD3 + expansions on sale lasta xmas for 50 bucks and I am really really hoppy with that purchase. It's amazing! But it's on 135 GB now, so I grabbed this one and put it on the internal storage. Really nice and a great move by InMusic! I am thinking about maybe selling SSD5 now and maybe keeping the free version. Anyway, thanks for the video, great playing! 🔥

Nice !

I don't get how the drum mapper works ... if I select Steven Slate drum map in Cakewalk..I get a horrible noise. Is there a BFD drums map available? I'm doing something wrong, right??

I wonder what fXpansion is hoping to achieve with this release. My impression is that their flagship product BFD3 is practically moribund. Is there an upgrade path?

Nice song.

Picked this up a few day’s ago great to see this video 🙏🏻 thanks Mike

Nice one Mike! I'll give it a try... But the SSD5 free version will be hard to beat 😅 cheers!

49ers

Were we supposed to hear the grooves?

Love your vids. Your way of demonstrating new plugins and virtual instruments is amazing.

One thing I've seen on all free drum VSTs is the snares that sound like as you would hit a piece of paper.

Do you know any drum VST (free or paid) that have deep and fat snare sound?

Thanks for the video. I like it but ill stick to M2 Drums because interface is great and so is the sound. Although, I like the catalogue of grooves in this one

Just downloaded the plugin. Will give it a go. Thanks Mike for the demo.

something is wrong with the groove/presets no?

Nice to see you again Mike

Just heard about this…definitely going to check it out!