FXpansion's BFD2 makes the lofty claim of being "the most powerful acoustic drum production workstation ever." This acoustic drum production environment boasts extreme realism and sound quality, quick and easy set up, complete plug-in integration, and more.

Customizable 10, 18, or even 32 piece kits with full control over tuning, damping, ambience levels, and velocity response give you the power to percuss. If the drum kit set up options still don't provide you with enough sounds, you can import your own stereo-sample sets for mixing, layering, and drum-replacement production.

The 55GB sound library features drum samples with multiple articulations recorded with up to a ridiculous 96 velocity layers. This should satisfy the most intricate of drum programmers, or at least kill him by old age in the decision-making process.

BFD2 also includes a comprehensive mixing console so that you can blend, route, submix, and process the mic channels as if you're recording the drums yourself. You have control over bleed levels, ambient mic width, and so many shaping tools that you'll reinvent sonic geometry. Built in processors include circuit-modeled dynamics, filters, and distortion among other effects you thought your guitarist had monopolized. Seriously, ring modulator will sound good on your entire kit at all times.

The Groove engine in BFD2 supplies a great environment for editing patterns, setting up performance modes, and humanizing your virtual drummer. A whopping 5,000 patterns are preset in BFD2, and it might take longer to scroll through them than just create your own patterns. Grooves are able to be sequenced to create a full drum track.

FXpansion must be really serious about their claim.