BFD Player

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No Drums? No Problem

The Uncompromising Free Drum Plugin

Give Your Songs the Drums They Deserve

BFD has an enviable reputation of helping professional music producers make great hits with the flagship BFD3! BFD has won countless awards over the last decade.

Building on that heritage, BFD Player offers the same high quality drum kits, grooves and mixing options for songwriters and music producers.

And the best news is. It’s completely free!

Get Into the Groove

BFD Player is easy to use. Simply open it up as a virtual instrument in your favourite DAW, or in standalone mode and you’ve got fantastic real drum sounds, imaginative professional grooves and an easy to use mixer. You can have that radio ready drum sound in minutes.

Even better, BFD have filled it with pro mixed kits and grooves to get you started. And when you need some new sounds you can expand BFD Player with an ever growing collection of sound libraries.

The Full Package...

Just Add Your Song

But sound is only half the story, what's the point of great sounds without some killer grooves?

BFD Player comes with 340 grooves created by top drummers that bring the kit to life. All the grooves are fully searchable based on such tags as genre, tempo, and even leading hand, so you can find the right one to fit your song.

And when you’ve got the drums and grooves just how you like them, use the inbuilt mixer to get a pro drum sound. If you’re new to recording there’s plenty of presets to get you started, or if you want to craft the mix yourself you can take over, and even route the drum outputs separately to process the sounds with your favourite plugins.

Find Your Perfect Kit

The kit piece browser takes BFD Player to another level, infusing tracks with vibrant, lifelike drum elements. This feature enables users to swap drum components with exciting alternatives from diverse expansion packs, igniting a world of sonic exploration.

Craft truly distinctive drum tracks by effortlessly blending elements across expansions, injecting energy and authenticity into every beat.

Whether it's about snappier snares or sparkling cymbals, the kit piece browser within BFD Player expands the capabilities of the plugin over and above the free Core library, adding your character and a unique edge to tracks

Features

The free version comes with a spectacular 5GB library, which is not limited in terms of velocity layers nor channels available.
3D kit view with switchable drums.
A simplified mixing experience, with 4 macros to quickly change the sound of the loaded preset.
Groove browser with filtering mechanics.
Has a library of 340 drum patterns that users can drag and drop right into their sessions.
Comes with a collection of production ready presets to get people up and running quickly.
Includes an 'Original Mix' preset that gives users access to all channels.

BFD Player 1.2 introduces a brand new drum track where a user can construct an entire song and save it within their DAW project.