Manual

CONSOLE 1 USER’S GUIDE | 51
the sidechain of a compressor or a gate. Doing so
means that the compressor or gate will no longer act
in response to the sound signal it aects, but to the
external signal which is being fed into the sidechain.
A Keying Example
An example of using the external sidechain for a
gate: let’s assume the gate is inserted on a track with
a synth pad. e synth pad plays continuously, with
no interruption. But instead, we would like it to
follow the pattern of the kick drum, and have the
pad appear at every kick drum hit and disappear in
between. To do this, you would insert the gate on
the pad track. You would then route the kick drum
sound into the sidechain of that gate. Now, every
time the kick drum hits, the gate will open and let
the pad sound through. But in between kick drum
hits, the gate will close and silence the pad track.
A Ducking Example
Used with the same signals, but on the compressor:
e compressor is inserted across the synth pad sig-
nal, and the kick drum is routed to the compressor
sidechain. Now, every time the kick drum hits, the
compressor will react and turn down the output sig-
nal of the pad. So the pad will be its normal volume
in between kick drum hits, but lower every time the
kick drum hits. is is often called ducking, the pad
ducks every time the kick drum hits.
Doing it with Console1
To get this set up in Console1, you go to the DAW
channel where you have the sound source you would
like to be aected by the sidechain (in the examples
above, that would be the DAW channel where the
pad synth is). Open the Console1 plug-in window,
and set it up to have its sidechain fed with the
signal you would like to aect it (in our example,
that would be the kick drum). Refer to your DAW
manual for the details of setting up an external
sidechain.
Select whether an external sidechain
(if applicable) should be sent to the
compressor or shape section.
Once this is in place, you can go back to the
Console1 system. With the External Sidechain
button, you can select if you would like the external
sidechain signal to be routed to your gate or to your
compressor, or not have any eect at all. When set
to , the sidechain signal does not aect neither
the gate nor the compressor. When set to 
, the external signal gets routed to the
Console1 gate’s sidechain. When set to  ,
the external signal gets routed to the Console1
compressor’s sidechain.