Problems with Side Chain

cubaz · Post by **cubaz** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:05 pm

I want to send signal from a kick drum to a Sonalksis side chain compresor on another track via Return A, when i try to send the return signal to the track that has the compressor, ie track 1, i'm supposed to get a second input menu to choose the compressor, but instead the menu is gray and not activated so i can't select the compressor's side chain input.. does anyone know why is this not activated?.. should i check something in Preferences?.. i tried also using vocoders, gates, etc. with input but none of them work.. i'm updated to the last 6 version on mac PPC OSX 10.4.10..

thanks for your attention..
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dr.wackler · Post by **dr.wackler** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:31 am

Sidechain inputs of plugins are only available in the output menu of the track you send from. In your case that's the output menu of the return track.

cubaz · Post by **cubaz** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:45 am

I see, maybe i wrote it wrongly, i was talking about the output channel, and then the output to the compressor, but now, i tried with Audio Units and it worked, i don't know why the output menu for plug ins from Return A or any channel doesn't appear active with VST's

Thanks.
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zstowasser · Post by **zstowasser** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:59 pm

ahh I just ran into this problem myself. Seems the side chaining doesnt work on vst but does on AU. however the release times of the compressor can't go below 50ms - or atleast I don't know how. which limits how the effect can be shaped.. its the best side chaining plugin i've found for a mac so far.

ilantz · Post by **ilantz** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:20 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5eep4inXYs

VST sidechain works great.. an example above.
using reaktor & the audio to could get u some intersting stuff too

have fun

zstowasser · Post by **zstowasser** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:48 am

i dont like how that red vst sidechainer works, sounded very cheesy

ilantz · Post by **ilantz** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:28 am

well.. the plugin choice is up to you. just pick one that supports SC

zstowasser · Post by **zstowasser** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:42 pm

not all SC is equal!

tylenol · Post by **tylenol** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:32 pm

cubaz wrote:i tried with Audio Units and it worked, i don't know why the output menu for plug ins from Return A or any channel doesn't appear active with VST's

VST (at least, the current version of the spec) isn't very flexible about sidechaining, as I understand it the developer has to hardcode in the number of sidechain channels. So often they have multiple versions of a plugin, ones with a sidechain input and ones without. (The same for multiple outs.) AUs don't need to do this, so it's usually easier to use the AU version of a multi-in or multi-out plugin.

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