Audio as a control source/modulator?

[Steve Bolivar]

Can Waveform use audio as a control source like Mixcraft 8? This is from a Sound on Sound review of Mixcraft 8 describing it. Thanks for any help on this:

The new Audio Control system allows you to modulate almost any instrument or effect parameter based upon any audio source. Here a kick drum is modulating the distortion level applied to a synth sound.

The version 8 update to Mixcraft adds comprehensive side-chain capabilities, including a feature called Audio Control. This system allows you to use an audio channel as a control source for any parameter on another track, be that on a virtual instrument or an effect plug-in. This is kind of like a super-powered side-chain feature, but also rather like the concept of a modulation system in a synth engine: your audio signal is the modulation source and the target parameter is the modulation target. In the screenshot, I’ve configured the kick drum track to modulate the level control on a distortion plug-in that is being applied to one of the synth tracks so that every time the kick hits, the distortion level is given a boost. This kind of connection is easy to configure: you just tap the ‘gear’ icon in the Effects List panel of the Instrument Preset panel to open the MIDI/Audio Control panel (the MIDI tab of this allows you to assign MIDI controllers to parameters). Under the Audio tab you can identify the target parameter and the source. You can then also adjust how strong the modulation is and its attack and release.

Your modulation source can be an audio track, a virtual instrument or a live audio signal, and can target almost any parameter within any effect or virtual instrument, so as well as side-chain-like options, there is also some very obvious creative potential here.