[Rwp] sidechaining.

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

Chris,

I keep hearing about side chaning.  Basically, what is! side chaining, and 
can you give a true world example of where it may be used?

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Cc: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] sidechaining.


> Ah, I finally got it to work with a nice concise explain from a good 
> friend.
>
> With Osara, you have to use object nav to re-direct the send to the right 
> place,
> from your feeding track,
> while you are still in the dialogue after you create the send.
>
> I had it all right but that critical little bit.
>
> IN sonar, your side chain inputs show up as descrete inputs when you 
> assign track inputs, and they show up as
> options for both the track and sends inputs so you know exactly what you 
> are assigning.
> But in reaper, I gather, when you make say a 4 channel track,
> you give your side chain input a place to be,
> and then when you set your detector input to auxiliary
> on the fx window itself, then it lines up with that extra set of track 
> inputs.
>
> Then you have to tell your send from the other track to go there.
>
> So it is a generic enumeration,
> not a hard wired naming scheme, but it works,
> and the advantage of reaper is that
> you can daisy chain any number of things together
> with sonar you can not assign sends to other tracks,
> but only busses, or processors which show up their side chain inputs,
> so once I get used to reaper's unconventional
> but more powerful way of routing, then I'll be able to do more cool stuf.
>
> Most of my needs are pretty old school,
> traditional recording and mixing things, but still, the ability is there, 
> and I look forward to
> exploring them.
>
>
> On 9/3/2015 1:32 PM, Justin Macleod via RWP wrote:
>> That means that channels 1 and 2 of your send are sending to channels 3 
>> and
>> 4 of your receive, where your compressor/gate/vocoder/whatever will be
>> listening for the audio to turn up.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Roger
>> Alexanderson via RWP
>> Sent: 03 September 2015 19:20
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Cc: Roger Alexanderson <roger77swe at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Rwp] sidechaining.
>>
>> just a bit confused, 1+2=3+4?
>>
>> Den 2015-09-03 kl. 17:22, skrev Alex H. via RWP:
>>> 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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