side chain in logic

[simonhans73]

What does people do if they want to side chain in logic.

Many plugins does not have an sidechain slot in logic??

[paradiddle]

Hi,

Which plugin are you referring to? Has far has I know the plugins that can sidechain are the only ones that need to. Unless I missed something, can you give us an exemple of what plugin you would use with sidechaining and how?

[simonhans73]

this one

http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/slim_slow_slid ... tml#sidech

[paradiddle]

My misunderstanding. I though you were talking about the internal ones.

[brok landers]

this one

http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/slim_slow_slid ... tml#sidech

it does not have anything in common with the sidechain option in logic, and you cannot use it with logics way of sidechaining.

with this compressor the result (the compressed signal) will unfortunally allways be mono, due the nature of the concept.
it worx as follows :
signal a on track a (i.e. bassdrumm)
signal b on track b (i.e. a drumloop)
the drumloop in this example shall be sidechain-compressed by the bassdrum.

1. pan the bassdrum (track a) hard left.
2. pan the drumloop (track b) hard right.
3. open the sidechaincompressor on a STEREO bus.
4. feed both tracks (a+b)into that bus.
make shure that track a is feeding the bus via
pre fader-send, not the output.
track b should be routed directly to this bus
via output of the track.
5. the loop will be sidechain-compressed by the bassdrum now.

note that the compression of the drumloop will be affected also by the send-inputlevel of track a (the bassdrum), not only by threshold and ratio.
so, best is, you feed the track a-send to the bus with a constant level close to 0db.
then adjust the compressor.
make shure that you turn down the sidechain-triggersignal (the poti most right in the compressor).

hope that helps,