Sidechaining in MC5

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ayowayo
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2011/06/13 23:42:35 (permalink)

Sidechaining in MC5

I ran a search and couldn't find anything to do with this.

I'm attempting sidechain compression of some percussion over some sampled vocals. I've checked out the post on the knowledgebase which is barely applicable because MC5 does not provide mentioned plugins. I've been trying to get it to work with Reaktor being my effects processor. Others have been able to sidechain with Reaktor in other DAWs and when I try to apply those steps, it does not work.
I've gotten to the point where Reaktor is ready to receive the drum track. When I look through the available sends out of the drum track, nothing related to Reaktor appears. Just preexisting buses or my hardware out. As of now, I'm almost positive it is not Reaktor that needs adjustment. 


Any ideas on how to have that drum track send to the Reaktor effects processor?
Also, out of curiosity, has anyone been able to sidechain using MC5 at all?

Any help would be much appreciated.
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    Kalle Rantaaho
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    Re:Sidechaining in MC5 2011/06/14 07:46:12 (permalink)
    I'm not sure if MC5 does support sidechaining. SONAR PE7 was the first version of the "big brother" that did it.

    However, I've read several posts about a workaround usable in PE6, and that might work in MC5 as well (???). Unfortunately I don't remember the details to write them here.

    A search for "sidechaining in SONAR  6" might be fruitfull.

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    Re:Sidechaining in MC5 2011/06/14 08:53:22 (permalink)
    I have heard of this, but have not used it, so I went looking on the net.. to get educated.

    I found THIS SITE which explained it pretty good. They also had a link to a FREE vst compressor that supposedly does this.  Since the music I write and record is not the typical genre I hear in the examples... dance/pop, I really have no use for this technique in my studio.

    At one time I had a hardware compressor that allowed two inputs and could be adjusted so that input on one channel automatically lowered the level of the other one.... used by radio station talk show hosts so that the host vocal always overrode and took precedence over the guest.

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    Re:Sidechaining in MC5 2011/06/14 09:01:33 (permalink)
    both these guys are right - there are no tools in MC5 for sidechaining, and in order to do it, you'd need to find a VST plugin which supports it.  there may be some you can find at www.KVRAUDIO.com

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    Re:Sidechaining in MC5 2011/06/14 20:12:04 (permalink)
    After searching around based on Kalle's suggestion I figured out a messy workaround of just having the percussion as part of the effect in Reaktor and just working with it through there and having a midi send go to it. That doesn't really make sense, unless you use Reaktor or have a similar plugin that allows sampling, synth, and effects in the same instance. But anyways...


    If anyone ends up needing help with this in the future and could use an actual fix, Kalle was the closest.
    Guitarhacker and Beagle, thanks for the help, but I already had that information and was using Reaktor as the plugin for sidechaining as mentioned prior.

    Thanks again
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