SmartComp - setting it up for sidechaining in FL Studio?

[Caine123]

guys, i dont get smartcomp yet to work, i use normally FL Limiter in comp mode and sidechain and hear the changes while dialing asap. in smartcomp it seems nothing really impacts it i think i set it up wrong?

i activate sidechain in smartcomp and put it in the channel e.g. Bass where the KICK is sidechaining to it.

does anyone tested smartcomp in fl studio as sidechain right?

[MogwaiBoy]

Easy, just took less than a minute to setup...

- Place SmartComp on the Bass channel
- Select the Kick channel in the mixer
- With the Kick channel selected, Right-click the little 'up arrow' send button on the Bass channel
- Choose "Sidechain to this track"
- Open SmartComp (on the bass channel)
- Goto VST settings / Processing / Right-click "2. Sidechain L / Sidechain R" and select the Kick as sidechain input
- Goto SmartComp GUI and increase Ratio + lower Threshold until action starts happening
- Tweak as you like

[MogwaiBoy]

Note: It's the right-click on the Sidechain input in VST settings that was the kicker for me. Such a huge "ah-ha!" moment. Once I knew that everything fell into place with sidechaining in FL.







If you're still having trouble let me know, I'll make a video if I can.

[kritikon]

It doesn't sound very smart if it can't set itself up. Probably should rename it dumbcomp.

[MogwaiBoy]

It doesn't sound very smart if it can't set itself up. Probably should rename it dumbcomp.

Fair comment!

[Caine123]

Awesome thx a lot!!!!
i need to test this with Trackspacer and Fruity Limiter to see how much CPU each uses and what are the best results out of these 3.