Specifications
Chapter 15: Dynamics 149
Using Sidechain EQ Filters
Both the Compressor/Limiter and the Expander/Gate sidechains
provide two bands of EQ to band-limit the range of frequencies
that trigger dynamics processing.
To activate a sidechain EQ filter in Channel Control:
1 Assign the Comp/Lim or Exp/Gate function to Channel Con-
trol.
2 Press the Channel Control encoder under the display showing
Key HF and/or Key LF.
To activate a sidechain EQ filter on-screen:
Click the sidechain filter In buttons.
To adjust a side-chain EQ filter:
Turn the HPF or LPF encoder to adjust the frequency (each fil-
ter ranges from 10 Hz to 20 kHz). On-screen, the LEDs around
the encoder light, and the current frequency value is displayed
on-screen.
Key Listen
The Key Listen button toggles the key onto the Solo bus, replac-
ing the signal there. This happens regardless of whether the key is
the channel signal or the external key, or whether it has been
side-chain filtered.
Key Listen always overrides all other signals on the Solo bus. If
soloed channels are already on the Solo bus, they are suppressed
until Key Listen is cleared. If additional channels are soloed
while Key Listen is on, they will be added but suppressed.
The Key Listen solo is also exclusive to itself; pressing Key Lis-
ten on a different processor or channel turns off the previous Key
Listen and the new Key Listen takes over.
To engage Key Listen:
Click the Listen button in the on-screen Exp/Gate controls.
To disengage Key Listen:
Click Listen again. The Solo bus reverts to its previous signal
(soloed channels, or none). You can also press Solo Clear once
to turn off any currently engaged Key Listen button. Press
Solo Clear a second time to clear channel solos, if any.
For frequency-dependent gating or compression, make
sure the Key Source is set to Self.
Key HF button (top) and Key LF button (bottom)
Key Listen on a dynamics plug-in does not route the signal to
the solo bus, but to the plug-in output. Use caution when us-
ing the Key Listen with a plug-in dynamics processor.