

We are going to need another empty mixer track where we route the drums (you can route a signal to as many mixer tracks as you want) - and this mixer track we use to send the non-processed (dry) signal to master track. Routing The Drum Mixer Tracks To An Empty Mixer Track However, we can still control the volume levels, apply processing, eq, etc. This allows us to apply processing (such as compression) to the drums as a GROUP so that it affects all the drum sounds together. As we chose ‘Route to this track only’, the signal will not be sent straight to the master track – ONLY through the chosen mixer track.

What we are doing here is sending the signal of each drum mixer track to a master track THROUGH one (or more) mixer track(s). Do that for each of the drum mixer tracks.

The little up-arrow on that empty mixer track turns yellow.

You do the routing one-track-at-a-time by clicking a drum mixer track and then right click that little up-arrow on a empty mixer track and choose “Route to this track only”. Into this track we will add the compression. Now, in the mixer view, ROUTE all the drum mixer tracks to an empty mixer track. Create a simple drum sequence and use the mixer to set the volume levels between the drums in balance: Pick a set of drum samples – kick drum, snare, closed hihat and open hihat – and drop them to the step sequencer sampler channels and assign each drum sample to an empty mixer track. This tutorial will show you how to set up parallel compression (also known as New York compression) in FL Studio. This is a great trick to make your drums sound huge. Both signals – compressed and non-compressed – are then sent to the master out. This technique is particulary useful with drum compression, as with it you can apply heavy compression to the duplicated drums while retaining the original dynamics of the non-processed version. Parallel processing is a mixing technique where you duplicate an audio track, add processing (such as compression) to the duplicated audio track, leaving the original signal non-processed (dry), mix them together and send them to the master out.
