 This video is sponsored by DistroKid. Follow the VIP link in the description down below to get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music to the world. A few months ago I made a video about what is probably the best free drum plugin that you can get, BFD Player. Since then there's been some updates with some new features as well as some new expansion packs. But before we dive into those changes let's just do a quick recap of this free plugin. So our main view is the kit view and here we can audition the drums that we've currently got loaded up by using our mouse and clicking on the drums like so. Now the drums that you're hearing at the moment are from the core library. This is the free library which comes with this free player and it's an incredibly versatile kit which you could adapt to the kind of sounds that you're looking for if you want to. Now that's demonstrated with the presets from this library. If we just expand it here we can see a number of presets here. I'll just click on the little play button next to one of them so you can hear the difference in sound. Let's try dry pop. So even with this free kit you get a lot of variation in sound. That sort of demonstrates how you could adjust it yourself to your liking. Now if you click on one of these drums then you can actually go to some options down here. So here I can swap out this snare drum with some different snare drums from other libraries if I wish. Now if you download the free play with the free library of course you're only going to see the core library to begin with. We'll talk about some of the other libraries and have a listen to them a little bit later on. But you do have some choices in the core library. So for example with the symbols you can go there and swap out for some different symbols. You can also, once you've selected one of these drums, you can also click on browse here and this is another way of sort of filtering out different drums that you've got installed on your system and swapping them out to be used in the current kit. Now as its name suggests the mix of you allows us to mix the sound of our kit. We've got channels for individual drums and also if we scroll over to the right we can see there's channels for various different busses like a room bus or an ambient bus etc. Now of course we've got the usual basic controls that you'd have on a mixer, faders for the drums, panning controls and of course you can mute and solo them as well. At the top we can see that we've got some overall effects that we can apply as well. They can be quite useful and importantly we can also output each of our channels in our mixer here to a separate channel in our door. So for example for this snare I could go down here select a different output for it to go out to. It will no longer be heard on the main bus here but we can then enable it in our door. That's really useful because it not only means that you could control the whole mix from your door but you can also add things like third party effects in there and it's also very useful for things like side chaining as well. So it's great to have that even in a free plugin. The grooves view as its name suggests is a place where you can browse, audition and make use of the grooves which are installed depending on the libraries that you have on your system. It's pretty easy to use as you can see if I want to have a look at this groove here I can click on the play button here to audition if I want and if I want to make use of it in my door I can just grab it and drag it off and drop it into my door and I can further adapt it there of course and tailor it to my song's needs. Now if you've got a whole lot of grooves on your system and you're trying to find something for your particular song then it's important to be able to find things quickly. So that's why they've got these filters at the top here so if I want to just make sure I'm only seeing say rock grooves I can click on the rock filter here if I want to make sure that let's have a look the timing of it is like a straight timing not a shuffle or anything like that then I can put that filter on then I'm only seeing the grooves that I may be interested in okay and you can sort these as well you could sort them in terms of their speed the timing and all sorts of things there. Now this feature is not new but it's incredibly related to the next new feature that we have in this version. So I have a little confession to make up until now I've actually been hiding a part of this plugin's interface from you so let's reveal that now. As you can see at the bottom of the interface now we have the drum track and quite simply we can now grab our grooves like one of these up here and then just drag and drop it into the drum track so I'll pop that verse in there for example then I'll grab a chorus I'll pop that in there maybe a different verse after that and as you can see we can go ahead and start building up the various components that we need for our song. Now I don't really need to do a full tutorial on this because it sort of makes sense all by itself but just in case you can't get it you know you can resize things here you can drag them around to different places you can audition what you've got so far with the transport controls all the things you kind of expect to be able to do to build up your song here. Now the actual tempo is actually set from the door so this has been used as a plugin at the moment but in the standalone version you can set your own tempo and things like that. Now once you feel that you're happy with what you've got you can actually grab all of these just like so just select them like that and then you can drag them off into your door drop them onto the track and you can do some fine tuning there perhaps using your piano roll editor. Now before we take a look at the new expansions just a quick reminder if you're releasing your music to major platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play etc I highly recommend the sponsor of this video DistroKid. If you follow that VIP link in the description down below you'll get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music to the world. So it's great that the player is free and it's great that you get this free core library but you may find that with specific genres of music you're going to outgrow that core library and that's where the expansions come in. They've released eight new ones I think they cost between 30 and 35 dollars each so not expensive and what I'm going to do now is just play them for you one after the other with some short demos and I want you to let me know in the comments down below which ones stand out for you. So what did you think? Let me know in the comments down below and if you want to find out about more free plugins check out this playlist right here