FXpansion

Infobox Company
company_name = FXpansion
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company_type = Ltd
foundation = 1999
location = London, United Kingdom
key_people = Angus Hewlett (CEO), SKoT McDonald (CTO), Rhiannon Bankston-Thomas (COO/CFO)
area_served = World
industry = Music Software
products = BFD, Guru, VST2RTAS, VST2AU, DR-008
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parent = Independent
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homepage = [http://www.fxpansion.com www.fxpansion.com]
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FXpansion is a Ltd company that produces music software including BFD, GURU and the VST-RTAS and VST-AudioUnit Adapters.

History

FXpansion is a company that develops music software, and was founded in 1999 in London, United Kingdom. Their base of operations is in London's inner East End.

Product history

1999VST-DX, an adapter between the VST and DirectX audio plugin standards.

2000 Series One Bundle, a collection of low-cost creative sound effects plug-ins. Series One Bundle was subsequently licensed to Steinberg and in 2002 became part of Cubase VST 5 and Cubase SX.

DR-002 and DR-005, a pair of simple drum machines.

VST-DX v2, an updated version of the VST-DX adapter (awarded "Best Utility Software, 2000" by Electronic Musician magazine)

2001 DR-008, a drum machine with sample playback, synthesis, effects, and triggered-sequencing abilities.

VST-DXi, an adapter between the DXi and VST audio plugin standards based on VST-DX. (VST-DXi was subsequently sold to Cakewalk (company).)

2002VST-DXi v4, an updated version of the VST-DXi adapter.

2003VST-AU, an adapter between the Audio Unit and VST audio plugin standards. (awarded "Best Utility Software, 2003" by Electronic Musician magazine)

VST-RTAS, an adapter between the RTAS and VST audio plugin standards.

VST-Rewire, an adapter between the Rewire and VST audio plugin standards.

BFD, a software instrument with a detailed set of multi-mic'ed, multi-velocity layered, and multi-articulated acoustic drum recordings with an "engineers mixer" interface, and onboard groove sequencer. (BFD received Electronic Musician magazine's "Best Drum Software", Remix magazine's "Best Sample Collection", and Computer Music's "Editor's Choice" and "Performance" awards.)

2004BFD XFL, an expansion pack for BFD recorded at Eldorado Studios, LA.

BFD 8 Bit Kit, an expansion pack for BFD recorded at 8 Bit Audio, LA.

2005GURU, a loop manipulating and sequencing virtual drum machine (awarded "Editor's Choice" and "Performance" awards, and [http://www.audiofanzine.com Audiofanzine] "Innovation Award")

BFD Deluxe, an expansion pack for BFD recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago.

2006BFD Jazz & Funk, an expansion pack for BFD recorded at Omega Studios, Maryland.

BFD Converter, an audio format converter from several of Toontrack's drum libraries into BFD format.

BFD Percussion, an expansion pack for BFD recorded at Omega Studios, Maryland.

Orca, a free subtractive VST synth featuring analogue circuit modeling technology.

VST-RTAS v2, a successor to VST-RTAS designed for Pro Tools 7.

VST-AU v2, an updated version of VST-AU.

2007
BFD2, a complete rewrite and redesign of BFD, with new recordings made at George Martin's AIR Studios, analogue circuit models of outboard recording hardware, a full onboard sequencer and more than five times the volume of data in BFD1. BFD2 includes recordings of drum kits formerly owned by John Bonham and Ringo Starr.

2008BFD Big Orchestral Marching Band (B.O.M.B), an expansion pack for BFD2 recorded at Omega Studios, Maryland