Somerset

Rothchild Put a Sonitus gate on the pad or strings you want to gate. Set up a track with a drum machine, playing a kick drum pattern of the gate rhythm you want. On the audio out of this track insert a send and make the output of it go to the sidechain input of the gate on your string track. Switch the send to pre and turn the volume down on the kick drum track. Adjust the threshold and timing of the gate to taste. Each time the kick drum hits, and opens the gate, you'll hear the strings / pad. Magic! Child

This works perfectly! The default Sonitus gate settings worked pretty well even without tweaking. What is the easiest way to get a "filtered" and gated sound in Sonar? 

Glad to hear you got it working!
 
If you want filtered just drop a filter of choice (with an LFO) either before or after the gate and sync it (or not) to the tempo of the track. (there's one in the pack of stuff that Cake salvaged from P5 that will probably do the job quite well).
 
Child

Hey adrian4u, no problem, glad you got it working!

There's a whole world of stupid things you can do with the sidechain controls of various plugs, let your experimentalist loose and maybe you'll find a new funky effect.

Child

Rothchild

Somerset

Rothchild Put a Sonitus gate on the pad or strings you want to gate. Set up a track with a drum machine, playing a kick drum pattern of the gate rhythm you want. On the audio out of this track insert a send and make the output of it go to the sidechain input of the gate on your string track. Switch the send to pre and turn the volume down on the kick drum track. Adjust the threshold and timing of the gate to taste. Each time the kick drum hits, and opens the gate, you'll hear the strings / pad. Magic! Child

This works perfectly! The default Sonitus gate settings worked pretty well even without tweaking. What is the easiest way to get a "filtered" and gated sound in Sonar? 

Glad to hear you got it working!
 
If you want filtered just drop a filter of choice (with an LFO) either before or after the gate and sync it (or not) to the tempo of the track. (there's one in the pack of stuff that Cake salvaged from P5 that will probably do the job quite well).
 
Child

Thanks for the tips. I'll have a look and experiment some more. I actually have all of the P5 plugs somewhere, although I think you are saying that X1 now includes some of them anyway. I was wondering if the filter could be side-chained, to trigger of the same signal used on the gate? Probably not, but it would be a useful option if it could be done. 


Cheers,
Cliff