Drew Vernon

Ah okay nice one. I wasn't involved in that survey, but I myself did a big one in 2017 where I asked everyone about their needs. I got a lot of great feedback from that - you're not the only one to mention tap-to-find! Songwriting and composition is way high on my list of areas of concern. I spend my days/evenings/life struggling to get ideas out of my head, and every musician I know is the same - the slightest technical annoyance just throws you out of the zone. I wanna fix that as best we can.

Yes we are planning on continuing to support BFD3. If there are outstanding issues that you know about please let me know, either here or in a PM. I'll endeavour to investigate. I have one Sonar crashing issue I have on my list to investigate right now, so throw me more. I can't commit on behalf of the team to a monthly update, but I can for sure say that I admire the idea. I'm a big Reaper user (please don't ban me!) and I admire their release structure very much. We don't know yet what we are dealing with right now in terms of bug-fix release and what the schedule will be. It isn't up to me (not solely anyway). Also RE: active on forums, social media, etc. Yes, I agree there. I pulled back for a number of years because of workload and personal reasons, but I am at heart a forum nerd! Out of interest James, which survey was that? If it was the one I did, I was just trying to gauge from our users what they wanted to see and how they thought of themselves. We got some great feedback from that which we've begun to enact. I really wish I could go into depth about all the stuff we wanna build, but I simply can't. We'll all have to wait!

All good questions and I don't dispute any of it, apart from support maybe. I know the guys work hard trying to support BFD, but they've got tons and tons of ROLI-related support and their workloads are insane. In terms of the team, the two of us who have been recording packs since 2013ish (BFD Oblivion, Horsepower, VRT, etc) got put onto audio-engineering within ROLI. We managed to get a few packs out in that time - BFD Jazz Noir, Wooden Snares, for example. But it's a simple fact that when you're working on multiple products and projects, you don't get to focus on a single thing. Which has been a shame for us as a team. So - as I say, watch this space. We fully intend to get our heads in gear and come up with some exciting new stuff. I can't speak to timelines right now unfortunately.

Hey gang, Drew here. Just want to echo my thoughts from the KvR thread really. I see this as a good move for BFD. We will finally be empowered to pursue all of the ideas we have wanted to for the longest time, and to deliver future products which we believe in and can stand behind. BFD isn't dead, and we're not going anywhere. Watch this space, as they say.