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Using compression sidechaining

Compression sidechaining is a feature which lets you control the Compressor, not from the internal channel signal,

but from an external signal. A typical use case would be to let the signal from a kick drum channel control the com-

pression of the bass channel. The result would be that the bass signal is compressed each time the kick drum signal

is present on the sidechain input, allowing the kick sound to momentarily suppress the bass sound.

Compression sidechaining from an external channel

The example below shows an audio track with a kick sound that is tapped from the Kick Audio Track device’s Parallel

output and routed to the Dynamics Sidechain input of the Bass Audio Track device.

• The Key button is automatically activated when you connect a signal to the Sidechain Input.

This will force the Compressor to be controlled from the Sidechain input signal rather than from the internal signal.

Compression Sidechaining of the Bass audio track from the Kick Drum audio track.