[Rwp] sidechaining.

[Chris Belle]

Even in this you tube video, he's doing it the traditional way with a 
send and the comp lies on the bass track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qELUfGKzJg

So we can't do it that way I'm gonna try.

This looks like the way it's supposed to be done.



On 9/5/2015 7:12 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
> Well, I admit defeat for the; moment, I sure can't get it to work.
>
> I know how this stuff works, in sonar, it's as easy as assigning the 
> track out put of
> your controling track, to the side chain input of an effect, which 
> resides on
> a track with audio you want to control.
>
> This usurps your audio from that controling track, so you can't hear 
> it anymore, the simple example being a voice over controling music,
> so you have to make a send from that voice over track so youcan hear 
> the audio because the main output of it is controling the side chain 
> on the other track.
>
> It seems like we're going about it the other way around here,
> putting the processor or fx on the controling track, and then some how 
> making the receiving track listen to it, I think I got the making a 4 
> track part right,
> I'm using Osara, and some of those field when you tab around when you 
> press i don't talk yet,
> and object nav hasn't shown me up anything yet, but I changed where it 
> says
> track channel and made it 4
> That's right after pan and width.
>
> so I'm assuming that gives the traxck the ability to send a copy of 
> itself elsewhere.
>
> I use reacomp
> as my experiment, and I went in to the fx window and saw where it said 
> detector input and changed that to
> auxiliary lr,
> and I know reacomp is not receiving from that
> because it quits working of course.
> But making the other track receive the signal I think is the issue, 
> I've tried things with sends andreceives, but reaper has this 
> maddening thing of automatically doing things when you arrow to 
> certain places in that dialogue, all I've succeeded in doing is 
> getting copies of my audio send to the different track, but not from 
> the fx which is what I want.
>
> This is a fairly straight forward thing I've done for years can do it 
> with hardware, and with sonar, why is it such a pain in reaper?
>
> In osara I don't see anything readily that says
>
> Find the buttons that say audio 1/2 and >=1/2. Press on the >= one and
> select 3/4. Done.
> maybe this is something yet to be fixed up in Osara,
> I can't see how to tell the track to listen to the side chain.
>
> In a normal situation that fx would be residing on that track and 
> listening to another track.
> Reaper is so powerful but it does everything sideways and upside down  
> to everything
> traditionally with audio  in the ways the rest of the world does it 
> 'grin'.
>
> Give me a bunch of bananas, I'm going to sit in my tree, and babble 
> and cackle.
> 'grin'.
>
>
>
>
> On 9/3/2015 10:22 AM, Alex H. via RWP wrote:
>> You have it correct.
>>
>> alex
>>
>> On 9/1/15, theoreomonster--- via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> just to clarify if i wanted the bass to duct overtime the kick hits, 
>>> i would
>>> make the bass track a 4 channel track and put the compressor on that 
>>> one and
>>> set the input to 3/4, then set the kick drum track to 1/2>=3/4? Or 
>>> is it the
>>> other way around ?
>>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Alex H. via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> Make your receiving track (the one with the effect u wanna use as a
>>>> side chaining thing) a 4 channel track.
>>>> On the effects on that track, Set the input on the plugin to channels
>>>> 3/4. It's sometimes called auxiliary.
>>>>
>>>> Go to the other track, the one with the audio you wish to manipulate
>>>> and bring up the track routing dialog. It's I with reaaccess; not sure
>>>> with OSARA.
>>>> Find the buttons that say audio 1/2 and >=1/2. Press on the >= one and
>>>> select 3/4. Done.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps, jotting down from memory as I don't have any access
>>>> to Reaper to double check. Someone else will chime in who knows their
>>>> stuff I'm sure :)
>>>>
>>>> alex
>>>>
>>>> On 8/31/15, Roger Alexanderson via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>> hi.
>>>>> I'm trying to get sidechain compression to work but it's a bit of a
>>>>> hazard.
>>>>> i followed instruction on the cockos forums.
>>>>> http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=17729
>>>>> the first problem i found was it's a bit tricky to get the in and 
>>>>> outs
>>>>> right in the i/o routing dialogue.
>>>>> secondly the plugin pin connector doesn't seem to be accessible at 
>>>>> all,
>>>>> at least not in reacomp.
>>>>> any ideas.
>>>>> thanks
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