Heh, I remember coming up with that trick in 2004 and forwarding it to Steinberg, testing the concept in Reaktor that allowed declaring more plugin inputs to the host back then, testing a proof of concept "regular" stereo compressor taking in a key signal from the host that way -- and wondering why more standard plugins don't provide separate sidechain inputs declared to the host like this, as routing like that was demonstratably already possible] Peter:H [ wrote:In Cubase there is this weird QuadChannel Trick that must be used to provide the side-chain signal to TDL Nova Dynamic EQ. Could this probably be similar magic here?
. Now, almost 14 years later inputs like this are common, hosts can routinely send signals into them, so it's amazing that this channel hack is still needed in Cubase when routing a key signal (into a VST2 plugin) ? Oh man. If this is the case, I can only imagine it's because they want to support only the VST3 way of presenting inputs to the host. In all other hosts I've used, it's just a matter of pointing a desired destination for a signal, selecting the plugin inputs, no matter whether using v2 or v3. For Nova and all other sorts of sidechained effects.Alas, there's something fishy with the FB-3100 external input in Ableton Live. You can select the instrument channel as a destination for a signal, but the inputs stay grayed out. Works in Reaper, for example. Jasinski, a workaround would be to host the instance of FB-3100 inside Minihost Modular (it's free, and just a host shell to contain FB-3100 in this case, so should be in all ways rules compliant
), which correctly declares its inputs to the host also in Live. After reading your post I tested this in Live 8, loading Minihost Modular as an instrument plugin and FB-3100 inside that, and it takes in audio mighty fine now. The level of the external signal is controllable with the input dial you mentioned, on the FB-3100 GUI.
