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Lejitt Lejitt is a male
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Wassup all
I use sidechaining all the time with drums, sub, and breaks etc. using the kick or snare to trigger the sidechain on the breaks or sub. (ducking)
does anyone know how to trigger a ducker with a muted track or sample?
For example, I sometimes mix and bounce my drums down before even starting the arrangement to save cpu, and then start a new project for everything exept the drums.....but once i've done that i cant use the snare or kick to trigger the sidechain.

I'd like to use a muted duplicate of the original kick or snare track to duck the sub or other elements in the track but it seems that if there is no signal going into the ducker then it doesnt duck.
I am using SX3 and the Sonnalksis compressor (which is great by the way)
Can I do what I want to do, or is it impossible?
Can my compressor do it or are there any other plugz that can?

anyway Ive kind of confused myself trying to work it out so any help would be bangin
29-06-2008 18:54
D2o D2o is a male
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If you send the kick (or whatever is used for the trigger) to the side-chain input via an aux send, and then set the aux send level to pre-fade, you should be able to mute the trigger and still get ducking

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Lejitt Lejitt is a male
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Ok, cheerz......
Im not on my own pc at the moment so I cant try it yet, but if it works then ure a life saver. Big Grin Big Grin
29-06-2008 20:28
northern dawn northern dawn is a male
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db audioware sidechain compressor is really easy to use and cheap. thats what i use
all the time..Smile
25-07-2008 02:23
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