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Strike is a revolutionary instrument plug-in that makes it easy to create professional drum performances in Pro Tools with uncanny realism and unbelievable human feel. More than just a high-definition drum module, Strike uses real drum performances and provides unprecedented control over every aspect of your virtual drummer's sound and playing. Select a kit, set the mic placement and leakage, choose a room, and tell your drummer how to play as you adjust the intensity, complexity, timing, groove, dynamics, and more — in real time. This is one instrument you have to see to believe.

Pro Tools LE 8 comes with a collection of virtual instruments, loops and processing plug-ins. They're all part of the creative collection. Boom, the drum machine virtual instrument, is fast becoming a favorite.

I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of FXpansion BFD ECO. BFD ECO is the little brother of the beast BFD2. BFD2 requires it's own dedicated 60 gig hard drive to run, which is a dealbreaker for most people. BFD ECO only requires somewhere in the ballpark of 4 gigs which is much more economical, hence the name ECO.

In my book, FXpansion can do no wrong. Every product they create that I have had the pleasure to use, has been exactly that...a pleasure to use. They create top notch products that are well made as well as add dynamics and professionalism to any home studio.

BFD ECO was easy to install and was fairly easy to register and authorize. I'm still not a fan of any software authorization, I know it's necessary to combat piracy, etc. but it seems like authorization is always the most complicated part of any application install.

As I stated earlier, BFD ECO only took up about 4 gigs of space on my hard drive. This makes it an excellent product to run on a laptop or a modest DAW. In a perfect world, I'd recommend running the full version of BFD2 on your main DAW and throw BFD ECO on your laptop for making beats on the go, that way you'd have the best of both worlds.

Featuring the highlights of the expansive BFD2 library and fully compatible with all BFD2 expansions, BFD ECO provides a simpler way of bringing lifelike drum sounds to your DAW. BFD ECO will be released in April, 2010 and will sell for around $150. BFD ECO will be upgradable to BFD2 at any time for a special upgrade price. BFD ECO comes as RTAS, VST, AU or as a stand alone.

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Another tutorial explaining how to use XLN Audio Addictive Drums. This one focuses on getting started on the kit page and how to use the mixer. Love me some XLN Addictive Drums. Check it out!

Lately, I have been toying with quite a few drum programs. I found this tutorial on XLN Audio Addictive Drums. There are a few other tutorials as well which I will post later. If you are new to Addictive Drums these tutorials should be helpful in getting started. Check it out!

I found this cool video which shows John Emrich demonstrating how to use the impressive features of BFD2 and the midi controllers Zendrum and Guru. This is a really impressive video. A must see. Check it out!

 Hello, newbe here was wondering if someone had some free killer drum loops/ tracks for pro tools in stereo .wav ??

I bought my boss 600 quite recently and had almost finished my first track. to finish it i was going to create a drum arrangement to put in the track but it didnt work.

i clicked on arrangement and selected the arrangement. i clicked rythm edit and selected step. the first three measures in the song are breaks so i put these as my first step, then when i tried to do my second step's starting measure at three, it didnt let me move it from 2. it goes the same onthe other steps, e.g. step 3 i cant move the starting measure from step 3 and so on.

can anybody help??

hi there, iv just bought a boss br 600, but the kick drum pad and the snare pad are very quiet when you hit them and swamped in reverb, is there an independant volume control to switch the kick and snare up? yeah i know rtfm but its really thick and i want to play now, can anyone help?

cheers

ps hope this goes in the right place