Anyone on here a sidechain fiend?
I am talking, unfortunately, with reference to plugins.
Just had a play with a little free VST that SOS reviewed called Sidekick.
(its free to download from http://www.twistedlemon.nl)
Been testing the little beast out pretty hard on kick drums haha automating on the master.
Anyone have any recommended compression plugins they've used that have good sidechaining features?
Appreciate it.
TEth
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I gotta admit it, sidechaining is sexy.
Used to do it with hardware, thuswise: Korg quad gate (with sidechain inputs). Make two endless textures in DAW, paan 'em L and R and send 'em to audio inputs 1 & 2. Fill two looping delays with stupidity and send to Audio inputs 3 & 4. Now, write a 4-part drum pattern in the MPC and send it to the Sidechain In of channels 1-4. Ouila! Pulsing weirdness! The cool thing about this unit was that you could select separate sidechains for gates 1-4. In other words, your drum part 2 could be controlling 3 drones (or none) and you could switch this all live from the front panel.
Plugins? Erm- not many! The built-in dynamics in Pro Tools are sidechainable from any source, including external input, but there really needs to be more!
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Used to do it with hardware, thuswise: Korg quad gate (with sidechain inputs). Make two endless textures in DAW, paan 'em L and R and send 'em to audio inputs 1 & 2. Fill two looping delays with stupidity and send to Audio inputs 3 & 4. Now, write a 4-part drum pattern in the MPC and send it to the Sidechain In of channels 1-4. Ouila! Pulsing weirdness! The cool thing about this unit was that you could select separate sidechains for gates 1-4. In other words, your drum part 2 could be controlling 3 drones (or none) and you could switch this all live from the front panel.
Plugins? Erm- not many! The built-in dynamics in Pro Tools are sidechainable from any source, including external input, but there really needs to be more!
-=Hoax
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Damn Cubase doesn't have any default sidechain capability that i am aware of. I found that just Midi gating can be fun but you really need to have those envelope variables to have real pulsing goodness!
That quad gate unit sounds like one fun piece of gear. Where did you get your hands on that? Or was that back in the day? Agh how i wish i could time travel.
White noise triggered by snare gate could be fun, thanks Theory i'll give that a blast.
The hunt for the ultimate plugin continues...
(ps thanks for responses fellas)
That quad gate unit sounds like one fun piece of gear. Where did you get your hands on that? Or was that back in the day? Agh how i wish i could time travel.
White noise triggered by snare gate could be fun, thanks Theory i'll give that a blast.
The hunt for the ultimate plugin continues...
(ps thanks for responses fellas)