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Ducking/compression effect without the drums (pg. 2)
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| paulc_dj |
| quote: | Originally posted by Honzi
In FL6's mixer there's a little knob under the section where you instert FX for controlling the stereo separation. To make track mono, just turn it to the right.
And to do sidechaining I use Sidekick |
Cheers Farris
I knew about the stereo separation knob on the mixer, but didn't know that was how you get it to be a mono signal. I've tried sidekick and I couldn't get it to work. I could see the signal on the vu meter, but no sound. I put a sidekick on the bass channel and on the kick channel and made sure that they were using the same virtual channel, but to no avail!
Any ideas?
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| matt_j |
Thanks for the responses! I thought of the duplication idea but I haven't tried it yet.
Edit: Nope, I didn't think it would work. Maybe Ableton just isn't capable of this. |
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| Sean Walsh |
Easy as hell to do in Ableton.
Just add an Impulse and give it a kick sample and a simple four four pattern. Route the output of this channel over to whatever channel you have your sidechain compressor hooked up to. This new Impulse will now be the trigger for the sidechain compressor, so there's no dependancy on your actual kick. You can create some really cool lead sounds this way. |
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| Honzi |
| quote: | Originally posted by paulc_dj
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The plugins are bypassed by default, but I think you already know it, else you wouldn't have the meters lit up.
And don't select any virtual channel on kick's sidekick, just use it to send the audio to another channel, which you select on bass's sidekick. |
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| Terry Barker |
i made a simple little thing in fruityloops, see if this helps...
clicky |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
| quote: | Originally posted by retrobyte
In Ableton, at least, you can automate the volume envelopes. I did a tutorial over here on AP:
http://www.audiopioneers.net/forum/...read.php?t=1611
You could also try using some other compressors that don't color the sound as much or not having the ratio on your compressor so high - it's all about playing around with the sound. |
If your cpu has enough power you could always just make a copy of that synth and kick and do the same again but with the other way around and viola you should have stereo.
For some its probably not feasable but its worth a try. |
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| matt_j |
| quote: | Originally posted by Speactra
Try doing it with a gate effect instead.
"mgTriggerGate" is a good one:
http://www.mgaudio.de/ |
Wow. I was always wanting one of these. Awesome! |
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| Corteoz |
| quote: | Originally posted by matt_j
I'm a newbie, so to me, muting the kick removes most of the compression effect, so the pad no longer 'pulsates'. Somehow I want the program to allow the kick to affect the compression, without actually mixing it in. |
If you're a newbie, start out with FL Studio or Reason. Not pro. software. |
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| Pjotr G |
yeah, the use the kiddy software instead!
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| Corteoz |
Don't what you meant to say, but forgot to mention that FL actually has some neat features that make it easy to SIDECHAIN as this effect is called.
Reason has some features for this too, but it's a bit more complicated. |
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| Pjotr G |
| I meant that "pro" is in the eye of the beholder |
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