Side chain not working on busses

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2015/06/12 11:00:16 (permalink)

Side chain not working on busses

I just tried to send audio to a plugins side chain and for some reason it didn't work. After I moved it to another track it worked, so I tried putting another plugin with a side chain on a bus and I got the same results. It seems the side chain function doesn't work when the plugin is on a bus. Can anyone else confirm this? Is this a bug?

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    brundlefly
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    Re: Side chain not working on busses 2015/06/12 12:31:18 (permalink)
    I found a few earlier references to this issue on the forum, but no solid confirmation that it's a known issue or has been reported. But I can repro it in both Platinum Everett and X3e so it's not new issue. Page 1043 of the Platinum Ref. Guide indicates it should work:
     
    "Insert the sidechain-capable plug-in in a track or bus FX Rack..."
     
     

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    Re: Side chain not working on busses 2015/06/12 13:07:17 (permalink)
    Yeah, sidechain has issues.

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    Re: Side chain not working on busses 2015/06/12 15:30:47 (permalink)
    Correction. My test case was no good. I found it was due to not having any signal going to the bus. I initially tested with a plugin that just passes input from the side-chain into the bus via the FX bin, and that's not enough to "energize" the signal path. When I side-chained a compressor and actually gave the bus an input signal to work on, the bus woke up and started passing both signals.
     
    I think it's considered to be working as intended that buses aren't active unless they're getting a signal at the Input.
     
    Possibly this explains the OP's issue as well.

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