It's all a bit weird and confusing.
There are two kits that come with 6 cymbals and a cow bell loaded and some of them are slightly panned.
The odd thing is although there are 6 cymbals and a cowbell loaded and you can play them via the the kit view only three cymbals and the cow bell are represented in the channel view so there are three remaining cymbals that aren't.
But then given that there are no direct channels for them it hardly seems necessary to have channels showing for them anyway. You can't after all use the pan or volume on the four channels and as I said, routing it direct to sonar or via an aux does nothing since they don't work as direct channels. In BFD2 they are not represented in the mixer view which is probably how it ought to be I guess.
 
I feel a bit cheated to be honest as when it says it's available in BFD2 & 3 format it's really only partially available.
I'm kind of ok with it in the sense that I can just replace those cymbals with better ones anyway but I'm still not entirely happy.
 
Steve

twaddle
I'm kind of ok with it in the sense that I can just replace those cymbals with better ones anyway but I'm still not entirely happy.
 
Steve

You have better cymbals than Neil?
 
And I was certain his last name is Peart, no? Maybe that explains the cymbal problem

bapu

twaddle
I'm kind of ok with it in the sense that I can just replace those cymbals with better ones anyway but I'm still not entirely happy.
 
Steve

You have better cymbals than Neil?
 
And I was certain his last name is Peart, no? Maybe that explains the cymbal problem

 
Bapu
Every single one of my cymbals has a direct channel so in that sense they are all far far better than the neil peart ones because I can actually do stuff with them.
What if I want to add effects to the cymbals as I often do ? I can only do that by adding effects in the ambient channels and I can't do that without effecting all the other kit pieces that are being sent to my ambient channels. I can't even pan them. And since they have no direct channels I can't route them out in to sonar so to me they are utterly useless.
 
Yes they sound ok but they really don't sound any better that the stock BFD2 ones and are nowhere near as good as the platinum sample kits that ship with BFD3 so I don't see myself ever using  them.
So all in all I have just spent $39 for some very nice toms and an ok snare and kick drum. I'm just really glad I didn't pay the full $99 for them as I'd have felt very ripped off.
 
Steve