[RWP] using side-chain on ReaComp as ducker

[Rene Kaaij]

Hi Patrick,
Yes, you can change the output for the mastertrack but you have to do
it with your mouse indeed. So you have to learn were to click, which
is possible using Nvda, but I don't know how this works with Jaws,
which most of you are probably using. 	It also doen't really work with
Hal from Dolphin but to be honest, Nvda is still my favourite
screenreader although the braille possibilities are really poor,
unfortunately.
Talking about sidechaining, you need to do the following:
Create a track with reacomp, (it could also be any vst that you need
for that purpose of course), open the track routing dialog with Ctrl+i
and set the track channels to 4.
Create a second track and go to the track routing dialog of that track
again. Click on "add new send" and send this second track to the track
with Reacomp. This will already be familiar, I guess.
In the track routing of the second track you will now see something
like "1/2 >= 1/2".
Then you can click on the second "1/2 and change it to "3/4".
Again this is what it looks like with Hal. I don't have any idea what
this would look like with Jaws.
For me this works anyway. Recently I used it with Reavocde, for one of
the tracks on my new album, which is at the pressing plant right now,
by the way!
Hope this helps, otherwise let me know.
Rene


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Perdue" <patrick at pdaudio.net>
To: Reapers Without Peepers <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Date: 31 augustus 2010 07:23
Subject: [RWP] using side-chain on ReaComp as ducker

> Hello all:
>
> Reaper and I have not been friends, really, from the start, especially given I can't set it up the way I'd like, due to the lack of ability for us to change the master track routing, since ReaAccess doesn't show it on it's virtual interface for some stupid reason. Still pretty bummed about that, but I've found some temporary workarounds for it, I.E. creating another fake master track, and sending all relevant tracks to it, effecting as necessary, or bypassing the master track and using individual returns on my audio interface (works OK until a project needs to be rendered, then it's kind of messy.)
> As a result, I haven't really used it all that much.
>
> However, it looks like I may not have access to my studio for a little while if things go as planned. So, I want to set up a portable broadcasting solution using a laptop, Reaper, my Zoom h4 recorder for a mic preamp and headphone output, Virtual Audio Cable, Asio4All (since you can't use multiple interfaces in tandem through DirectSound,) a VST Icecast/shoutcast streaming plugin, a few instances of a gate and ReaComp and/or other suitable compressors on individual tracks, etc.
>
> I want to use side-chaining on at least one of the ReaComp instances, maybe even two of them, but can't figure out for my life how to get audio sent to inputs 3/4 of the compressor from other tracks to make that happen.
> I get that you need to change the number of track channels on the track where the compressor has been inserted to four, and to change ReaComp's detection input to aux left/right rather than main left/right, but I don't know how to make other tracks send to 3/4 on the compressed track. The only thing I see about channels at all in any of the routing things when setting up sends or receives (which, as far as I can tell, are exactly the same thing in reverse,) are midi channels 1-16, not audio channels.
> I found a video on Youtube that made it look pretty easy, and it seems I'm only missing this very obvious step. It looks like there should be a drop-down list of audio channels of the source track somewhere, but I'm just not finding it.
>
> Anyone here have an idea what I'm overlooking?
>
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