sidechain compressor in logic 5.51

[simonhans73]

hi..I need some help

I can use logics compressor, an it has a side chain slot. So thats easy to set up.


But what if I use other compressors. I downloade one called "side Chain compressor for mono" made by Slim slow slider presents. And that dont work

All other than logic dont work..because it does not have that slot to insert side chain

[CinningBao]

Hi,

AFAIK, Logic can't send more than two signals to non-native effects, so will never be able to use the stereo version of that plugin.
But the mono version is working quite well here. You need to bung it in bus, then consider that the signal on the LEFT will compressed by the signal on the RIGHT buy the amount you set in the plugin.

Good Stuff.

[brok landers]

hi..I need some help

I can use logics compressor, an it has a side chain slot. So thats easy to set up.


But what if I use other compressors. I downloade one called "side Chain compressor for mono" made by Slim slow slider presents. And that dont work

All other than logic dont work..because it does not have that slot to insert side chain

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,