Arturia let us know that they’ve introduced Mix Drums, a new audio effect for Mac & Windows that’s designed to “deliver present, impactful drums without the complexity.”
Co-developed with 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.
Features:
- Smart Peak Control – One-click input ceiling feeds a transparent signal-path clipper.
- Transient Shapers: Independent attack and sustain controls to fine-tune smack and body on each band.
- Dual-Band Engine: Separate low and mid/high paths with dedicated drive, transient, and tone stages.
- Distortion Architecture: Blend clean and distorted signals for warmth, weight, and depth.
- Filter Sculpting: Musical HP/LP filters before and after drive stages to focus lows and tame highs.
- Clean Highs: Restore crisp hats and cymbals after distortion, perfectly in phase for clarity and punch
- Dynamic Space Section: Add depth, movement, and width with reverb, tape, and digital delays
- Noise: Vinyl crackle, tape hiss, and electronic textures. Place pre or post-processing for different effects.
- 3-Band Output EQ: Make quick corrective adjustments right before the master
- Adjustable band crossovers, spatial dynamics, and noise placement unlock deeper sound design control
- ‘Mix-Ready’ Presets: 92 presets organised by drum type, genre, and intensity
Pricing and Availability:
Arturia Mix Drums is available now for $99 USD.
Honestly sounds pretty good. Don’t need it since Bitwig sound processing tools are much better for my purposes. Also, what is it with that annoying drum photo in the background image behind the visualizer? You can use this for more than drums anyway! 🙂
As with all arturia plugins they are full of unnecessarily large images and other overbloated files. Their plugins are about 10 times the size of any other brand. Not that disk space is too expensive these days but 70-80 gigabytes for a bundle of softsynths is taking the piss a bit
Arturia are indeed bloat ware kings. The file size is utterly disproportionate to the actual software capability. This particular plug in also grossly overpriced and extremely lacklustre
Aside from the size of the VST, what do you find disappointing about it’s overall sound and capability in particular?
There appear to be quite a few “all in one” effects chains designed for drums and while many seem to do one or two of them well, I have yet to discover a do-it-all plug-in that lives up to the hype.