This week’s free plugin is BFD Player, a free drum VI which comes with 5GB of sounds, grooves and all the tools you need to get quality drum sounds, for free!

What Is BFD Player?

BFD was the first drum VI I ever used, a really long time ago. Building on this heritage is BFD’s free Player instrument. Landing in familiar form, it has one Core Library of sounds with mixer, as well as a respectable repertoire of tagged MIDI beats and fills. Perhaps the only omission is its own arrange track or transport buttons, however anyone using it in their DAW can deal with that. The plugin instrument and the included standalone app both include tonnes of keymaps for existing big name VIs and digital drums, meaning the latter behave well with input from drummers or existing MIDI.

BFD Player Features

• Free 5GB Core Library.

• 3D kit view with switchable drums.

• 4 mix macros to quickly change the sound of the loaded preset.

• Groove browser with filtering mechanics.

• 340 drag and drop drum patterns.

• Collection of production ready presets. 'Original Mix' preset gives users access to all channels.

Check out our first look video below.

How Do I Get BFD Player?

Click the button above to go the the BFD Drums website, click download and download the installer. The first time you load the plugin you need to either create a free account or log into your existing account. Confirm your email address if creating a new account. Go to your account via the plugin and after a short period syncing with the account the plugin should activate.

BFD Player is available for windows and macOS as a VST, AU and AAX plugin, Apple Silicon compatible.