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4.2.8. Mix
A technique often used in production is what's called Parallel Compression. This is useful
to allow compression of the audio signal while also preserving intact all the transient
characteristics of the audio. The basic concept is having a way to preserve the original
audio, while also processing it through compression. For this, we need to have a channel
that "passes the audio through". while on another channel we have the audio sent to the
compression path.
This is what can be achieved with the Mix parameter, an add-on introduced by Arturia in all
the units of the Compressor Bundle.
The Mix knob is set by default to Comp, which means the processed signal only. We can
turn it all the way down to Dry (fully uncompressed, original audio) or anything in between.
Values are displayed in percentage, where 100% is fully processed signal, and 0% is fully
unprocessed audio.
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