[RWP] Sidechaining in Reaper 4x

[Patrick Perdue]

No, you're right. If you don't change the channels of both the sent 
audio and the detector input of the compressor, you get a copy, which is 
boring.
You need to make sure your side-chaining compressor track is set to four 
channels, change the sending track to channel 3/4 of the compressor 
track, and make sure ReaComp is set to monitor from aux inputs. 
Unfortunately, as I don't use Reaper 4.x, I can't tell you how to change 
the channels to send audio from the source track. I've always done it 
through the convenient (and now broken in modern versions) ReaAccess I/O 
dialogue. I assume you can change it somewhere in Reaper's native track 
routing screen once a send has been created.

On 10/12/2013 5:34 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> I must be missing something obvious. Seems like if I set this up with
> sends, both signals will go into the same input of the compressor.
> Granted, that'll sound different than if I hadn't done it, but that's
> not the same as sending that secondary signal into the key input of
> the compressor or whatever they call it in plugins nowadays so that
> the compressor is reacting to it as a separate source is it? Been a
> while since I actually patched in hardware, so forgive the potentially
> rookie question.
>
> Cheers
>
> Scott
>
> On 10/12/13, Drew <amockery at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You have to press i to view the track IO. Tab to the "sends: add new" combo
>>
>> box and press the down arrow. From there it's pretty much the same as in
>> reaper 3. The only part I can't figure out is how to change where that send
>>
>> goes; it defaults to the top track or the second track if I'm already on the
>>
>> top track.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:05 AM
>> Subject: [RWP] Sidechaining in Reaper 4x
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have a workflow for getting this done in Reaper 4 with
>>> NVDA? Struggling to get some weird arty atmospheric loops to sit in
>>> the mix here, and I'm thinking some ducking triggered by the drum bus
>>> might tie things together a bit better.
>>>
>>> Any tips appreciated...
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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