I would like to control the volume envelope of an audio track based on the kick drum events in another track.
I have been searching everywhere on the internet, but the only thing I found was a description on how to achieve this using z3ta+ in Cubase.
But I would like to use my Sonar Platinum...
The result should be like in some disco productions, where it sounds like the bass drum is taking all the loudspeaker energy from the other instruments.
I tried routing all instruments except for the drums track to a bus, and wanted to add this as an audio effect, e.g. using a synthesizer (similarly to creating a vocoder).
Any ideas welcome. Thanks in advance.

Forgot to mention some further details: the MIDI drum event (e.g. note 35) should trigger a volume modulation in the audio FX module like this:
For the first few ms the volume falls rapidly by say 10dB. Then within the next 300-400ms the volume gets back to normal (linear)
Perhaps I need to write a special VST for this?

I am wondering if it would be better to use a sidechaining compressor to do this. An example of a compressor that can do this is the Prochannel PC4K-s Compressor.  That way, it's the presence of the kick drum itself, rather than a specific MIDI note number that achieves the volume reduction.

+1 to sidechaining.. very straightforward.

Here is a video about using a sidechain in SONAR

 

Thanks a lot everyone. I will give this a try tomorrow.

If you're looking for the Eric Prydz "Valerie" effect, here's how to do it. Also check out the tip for Week 67 in Friday's Tip of the Week.

Works like a charm, thanks a lot everyone.
Wonderful software :-)