MACG in Cubase, how?

[Tolis Q]

Hi everybody, hope you are all good.

i need some help, im trying to set up MACG in cubase but really cant find a way to do it.
i want to add a distortion plugin in a a channel and want MACG to auto gain compensate (distorsion plugin has no output level), how can i do that?

thanks

[Held]

You need to put MAGC after the distortion plugin. Then use the output of the plugin in front of the distortion plugin as the side-chain input for MAGC.

[Tolis Q]

Hi Held, thanks for replying, still cant figure what exactly to do.. do i need to put two instances of MACG in the channel in order this to work?

[Held]

Basically, what MAGC does is to make it's own output match the volume of the side-chain input.

So you need only one instance directly after the distortion plugin. Then use the undistorted signal as the side-chain input.

I don't have Cubase anymore, so I can't give you step by step instructions.

[Tolis Q]

ok cool, thanks alot for your help