Arturia releases Mix DRUMS - Drum Processor Plugin

Arturia has released Mix Drums, an intuitive plugin designed to increase the impact and perceptual loudness of your drums, while preserving peak levels. Developed with mixing engineer Emre Ramazanoglu, it streamlines complex drum processing workflows into a single, efficient tool - allowing creators to achieve powerful drums in seconds.

Mix DRUMS - Transformative drum processor

Co-developed with acclaimed producer and mixer Emre Ramazanoglu (Brian Eno, Lily Allen, David Holmes), Mix Drums blends phase-coherent parallel processing, distortion and tone shaping, transient control, and more — all in an intuitive, flexible plugin.

Whether you're building a track from scratch or putting the final touches on a mix, Mix Drums brings instant presence and professional weight to your drums.

Mix Drums puts the power of a professional drum sound at your fingertips. It delivers instant tone, weight, and impact. Whether you're refining raw recordings or enhancing loops, Mix Drums brings mix-ready results fast, with the flexibility to go deeper when needed. With a carefully selected 40 presets, curated by artists and tailored for genres like indie rock, electronica, pop rock, and pop, it offers bold, powerful tones that keep your creativity flowing.

Features:

• Auto Input Ceiling Calibration: Simply play a loop — the plugin analyzes the average peak of your drum bus, and with one click, applies optimal gain staging to ensure maximum impact without clipping.
• Dual-Band Signal Processing: Split your signal into low (kick and toms) and mid/high (snare, hats, and toms) bands for targeted treatment. Each path offers dedicated distortion, dynamics, and tonal shaping tailored to its role in the kit.
• Parallel Distortion Architecture: Blend clean and distorted signals to add warmth, weight, and depth, without sacrificing transients or clarity. Multiple saturation paths allow you to shape your sound, from subtle enhancements to more intense distortion.
• Filter Sculpting: Inject life into your drums by shaping distortion with expressive high-pass and low-pass filters. These controls not only refine your tone but also add musical character and focus to otherwise flat or lifeless sounds.
• Phase-Coherent Parallel Paths: Smart phase alignment keeps dry, distorted, and filtered signals perfectly in phase, ensuring clean summing with no phase issues, which is essential for maintaining weight, clarity, and impact.
• Transient Shapers on Both Bands: Control attack and sustain independently on both low and high paths to shape smack and body with surgical precision.
• Dynamic Space Section: Send your processed drums into a versatile reverb and delay engine, featuring Convolution Reverb with multiple room options, Tape Delay, Algorithmic Reverb, and Digital Delay. Perfect for creating a tight, mix-reactive ambience that enhances the groove without adding muddiness.
• Corrective EQ & Tone Shaping: A 3-band output EQ provides subtle corrective EQ for cleaning up your tone and fine-tuning the mids. The Tilt EQ in the Mid/High section lets you adjust brightness or warmth, offering precise control before hitting the master clipper.
• Signal path Clipper with RMS Boost: Boost perceived loudness across the entire signal path while keeping peak levels in check. The clipper maximizes impact without introducing harshness or overtly audible clipping, ensuring a powerful sound throughout the mix.
• Preset Browser with Genre Tags: Discover a growing collection of 40 expertly crafted presets, categorized by drum type and creative intent, from subtle enhancements to full-on transformations. Whether you're refining kicks, snares, toms, or claps, explore presets across three styles: Natural (bigger sound, minimal tonal change), Processed (distorted and punchy), and Creative (bold, transformative effects).

Pricing & Availability

Mix DRUMS is available now for $99 for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats.

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