Q: hello! since you use your keyboard for drums, do you mix your drums in seperate channels (for snare, kick, hi-hats, etc), or the whole drum machine as one channel?
A: what i have learned is, it IS smart to mix the kick separate. why? because reverb on the kick is usually a bad idea, but you might want a little rev on the rest. so i actually developed a cool technique to quickly separate it out -- i duplicate the channel, and delete all the kicks in one, and delete all the 'everything else' in the other. that's about it. i could separate it more, but life is short. if i'm doing a song with not much reverb, i might not even bother