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I have this hypersonic vst that has a percussion kit i wanted to use on a track. I don't have the cpu power to just add multiple instances of it to seperate each sample. So I seperated each percussion sample in the kit through a particular midi track routing it through the 1 instance of hypersonic. My question is how would you go about adding seperate fx plugins to the seperate midi channels? for some reason when i add a EQ or a compressor it changes the output of the track. anyway to work around this?

"Add Return Channel" and use sends

oh sorry, that won't work for seperate MIDI channels, only if hysersonic was outputting each drum sound to a seperate AUDIO channel.

in which case, if you want to use an EQ on some, but not all of the drum sounds, you have to find some what to route their audio to a separate audio channel

Audio doesn't take up much CPU as you might think, try bouncing down the drum sounds you want EQ'ed to an audio channel, and add eq there.

If you bounced every sound down to it's own audio track, then you could use Send/Return effects to share one instance of an effect between multiple channels.