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Using Ultrabeat’s Side Chain Mode
In Side Chain mode, Ultrabeat uses an external side-chain input as the source for
Oscillator 1. This means that you can send the signal of any audio channel strip, any bus,
or live input through Ultrabeats filters, envelopes, LFO, and step sequencer. Using busses
as sidechain sources makes it possible to route signals to the sidechain input from any
channel strip type that offers busses as outputs or sends. This includes software instrument
channel strips, aux channel strips, or a mix of multiple channel strips that are routed into
a common aux (sub group), that has a bus as the output destination.
Here is an example of how you might take advantage of this feature: You could use an
audio input from Oscillator 1, along with the synthesis engine of Oscillator 2, to create a
part live audio, part synthesized drum sound.
Note: The side chain affects only the selected drum sound—Ultrabeat’s other drum
sounds and sequences behave as usual.
Here is another example of where this could be useful: You could use one drum sound
in a kit to filter an external audio signal with a programmed groove.
Note: A side chain audio signal alone is not enough to trigger Ultrabeat. To hear the
side-chained audio signal, Ultrabeat needs to be triggered by MIDI or the internal step
sequencer.
To use Side Chain mode
1 Activate the “side chain” button for Oscillator 1.
2 Choose the channel strip that you want to use as the side chain input source from the
Side Chain pop-up menu at the top of the plug-in window.
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