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Hey guys,

How are you all.

I am quite new to Abelton live. I am a live musician and I am slowly but surely getting my heard around the new technical life which Live brings.

I have a couple of questions and I would be so grateful If someone could explain their individual paths and set-ups for bussing and side chain compression.

Okay so far this is what I do.

As an example If i have 2 kick drums and 2 separate snare tracks, I bus the 2 kicks to a new audio track ( Kicks Bus) where I have reverb and compression. I do the same with the 2 snare tracks which has delay and reverb, and name the 2nd bus - snare bus. So I now have 2 bus' with effects and the audio is being sent from the 2 kick audio channels and 2 snare audio channels. Now on both my audio busses I have my compression and reverb (kick), comp delay (snare) which I want....Okay Cool.....So then I route both of these busses to another bus which I name Main Drums Bus..Is this okay so far?

So, when having bus chains, what about sidechain compression. Say for example I have a bassline. Do I add a compressor to this, sidechain it with the kick and then run it to another separate bus. I may want to add a pad and let the hi-hat pattern control the pump of the hat.

Are their any tutorials online for this, or can anybody please detail the mixing paths they follow when trying to to this sort of thing...I think starting to learn this stuff at first is a bit of a head pickle....But I am sure It will all fall into place soon

drop the compressor on the bass track. open the sidechain window on the left. set the sidechain input to the output of the drum bus. done.

hello tone deft....

what exactly do you mean, when you say open on the left....

Can you explain some more, perhaps a screenshot....thanks for the reply

See the little triangle on the left hand side of the compressor? Press it and it opens up. Failing that, read the manual, it states it in there as well.