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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:06 pm

hi, i read that people use smartcomp for sidechaining instead of trackspacer, did anyone compare these yet?
i didnt get smartcomp to sidechain in fl studio correctly yet :/

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:38 pm

Both work. Trackspacer is WAY easier to setup, though.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:49 pm

b15fliptop wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:38 pm Both work. Trackspacer is WAY easier to setup, though.

is trackspacer still a cpu hog? thats why i used FL Limiter lately. and i didnt get smartcomp to work somehow for sidechain, i asked sonible support to help though.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:19 am

Caine123 wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:49 pm
b15fliptop wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:38 pm Both work. Trackspacer is WAY easier to setup, though.
is trackspacer still a cpu hog? thats why i used FL Limiter lately. and i didnt get smartcomp to work somehow for sidechain, i asked sonible support to help though.

I use FL Studio too - Trackspacer is about 3-4% per instance, so, yeah, not super heavy but certainly not light on CPU.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:29 pm

Not used Trackspacer, but I've found SmartComp to work well but be CPU intensive. Also, it has issues on M1, or did last time I tried it. I've been using MSpectraldynamics recently and I much prefer it to SmartComp for this sort of use case.

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:34 pm

Caine123 wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:49 pm is trackspacer still a cpu hog? thats why i used FL Limiter lately. and i didnt get smartcomp to work somehow for sidechain, i asked sonible support to help though.

I haven’t noticed that it’s high, but I only use it for mixing.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:48 pm

I use a dynamic EQ called F6 by Waves. I find it works much better than compressors, but I don’t really like that squashed modern sound.

Ramm Darkened · Post by **Ramm Darkened** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:13 am

SmartComp is more transparent IME

Dirtgrain · Post by **Dirtgrain** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:10 am

b15fliptop wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:38 pm Trackspacer is WAY easier to setup, though.

For me, in Ableton Live, Smartcomp is easier. One picks the sidechain, turns on the sidechain, and it's working. With Trackspacer, I have to make a send for it and duplicate a track of the source, and if I haven't done it in a while, I forget initially how to do it.

Ploki · Post by **Ploki** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:37 am

Caine123 wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:06 pm hi, i read that people use smartcomp for sidechaining instead of trackspacer, did anyone compare these yet?
i didnt get smartcomp to sidechain in fl studio correctly yet :/

some people like me also use Soothe2 instead of either.
I stopped using trackspacer completely.
Trackspacer's bands are really broad. If you send it a sine wave it will notch nearly +/- 2 octaves on both sides.
Soothe2 can either notch 2 octaves or +/- few Hz depending on the sharpness control

Trackspacer vs. Smartcomp for sidechaining?