Arturia’s Mix DRUMS plugin increases the “impact and perceptual loudness” of your drumsArturia has launched Mix DRUMS, a new plugin designed to increase the impact and perceptual loudness of your drums, while preserving peak levels.
The plugin streamlines complex drum processing workflows and was developed with mixing engineer Emre Ramazanoglu. With over 25 years of experience, Ramazanoglu has worked with artists like Lily Allen, Brian Eno, David Holmes, and more.

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According to Arturia, Mix DRUMS can lift any drum bus, live kit, loop, or layered one-shot. It has an input ceiling system to keep peaks safe, a parallel processing engine, and 40 “mix-ready” presets.
The input ceiling analyses the average peak of your drum bus and applies optimal gain staging for high-impact without clipping. With its dual-band processing, you can split your signal into low (kick and toms) and mid/high (snare, hats, and toms) bands for targeted treatment, with each path providing distortion, dynamics, and tonal shaping tailored to its role in the kit.
Additionally, tucked away in the EQ section is a “noise” feature, including vinyl crackle, tape hiss, and other electronic textures that can be placed pre- or post-processing. Check out the video below for more:
“This plugin recreates and actually improves upon one particular workflow I use when creating characterful drum sounds in a mix, or for increasing the impact of delivered stereo drum loops without raising peak level,” Ramazanoglu comments.
“I wanted an all-in-one solution to achieve the retro-inspired but full-range and weighty drum sounds that I get hired to deliver – as well as everything from fully creative transformational processes to very subtle drum bus enhancements.. We’ve developed a phase-coherent processor that allows the user to instantly dial in a huge variety of tones.”
To find out more, head over Arturia.
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