Acon Digital introduces two new AI-powered drum tools for mixing: Remix:Drums and DeBleed:Drums, offering real-time stem separation and intelligent mic bleed removal.
Acon Digital, a Norwegian company specializing in audio editing and processing software, has dropped two new plugins aimed at producers, DJs, and mixing engineers working with drums. Called Remix:Drums and DeBleed:Drums, they each offer something different for your drum bus.
Remix:Drums: Real-Time Drum Stem Separation
The first of Acon Digital’s two new drum tool plugins is Remix:Drums, an app with real-time drum stem separation. Drop it on a drum bus or loop, and it will split the audio up into separate channels for the kick, snare, hi-hat, cymbal, tom, and other sounds. As it’s real-time, you don’t have to click a learn button – separation happens automatically.
The plugin, which resembles a six-channel mixer, allows you to adjust the volume of each stem as well as panning and per-track sensitivity. Additionally, it allows for automation and multiple audio outs, so you could route the snare to an auxiliary channel with a reverb plugin on it, for example.
The AI algorithm doing the stem separation is based on the company’s Remix plugin, which does a similar thing but with full songs, not just drums.
DeBleed:Drums: Let It DeBleed
Acon Digital’s other new rhythm-focused plugin is DeBleed:Drums, an AI-powered app designed for removing microphone spill from drum tracks. If you record acoustic drums, you’ll be aware that microphones pick up the sound of adjacent drums in the kit. You could either record each drum separately (as they did in the disco days for really dead drums), use a gate, or try this new plugin.
“DeBleed:Drums is an advanced AI-powered plug-in that enables mixing engineers and studio professionals to quickly and transparently remove unwanted mic spill from drum recordings in real-time, without compromising on quality,” says Acon Digital.
As with Remix:Drums, DeBleed:Drums works in real-time. Add it to the individual channels and choose the drum type, then adjust sensitivity and trigger threshold. It uses neural network technology to separate drum kit elements while DSP algorithms protect transients for clarity, the company claims.
Both plugins are available now from Acon Digital. Remix:Drums costs $49 while. DeBleed:Drums is going for $99.
You can get them both together in the Drum Production Suite bundle for $129.
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