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Audio effects
3. Open the Inserts tab for the first Vocal track in the In-
spector and select “PingPongDelay” from the Effects
pop-up menu.
The control panel for the effect opens.
4. On the control panel for the effect, make the desired
effect settings and activate the Side-Chain button.
Try out the effect settings to find out which settings will work best with
your project. For detailed descriptions of the parameters, see the sepa
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rate PDF document “Plug-in Reference”.
5. In the track list, select the second vocal track.
6. Pull down the Output Routing pop-up menu and on
the Side-Chain submenu, select the PingPongDelay ef-
fect you set up for the vocal track.
This way, the signals from the second (duplicate) track are routed to the
effect (and do not end up in the mix).
Now every time the signals on the vocal track exceed the
threshold, the delay will be deactivated. Since the thres
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hold for the delay effect is fixed, you may have to adjust
the volume of track 2, in this example, to ensure that vocal
parts of low or middle volume will also silence the delay
effect.
Triggering a compressor using side-chain
signals
Compression, expansion or gating can be triggered by
side-chain signals exceeding a specified threshold.
You may run into a situation where you want to lower the
volume of one instrument every time another instrument is
played. For example, you may want to lower the volume of
the bass guitar during the bass drum hits. This can be
achieved by applying compression to the bass guitar sig
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nal every time the drum signals are present on the respec-
tive track.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the bass guitar track.
2. Open the Inserts tab in the Inspector, click in an insert
slot to open the effect selection pop-up menu and, on the
Dynamics submenu, select “Compressor”.
The effect is loaded into the effect slot and the effect control panel opens.
3. Make the desired effect settings (you will most likely
have to adjust them later to get the right compression
level) and activate the Side-Chain button.
4. Select the bass drum track.
5. Open the Sends Inspector section, click in a send slot
and from the Side-Chain submenu, select the Compres-
sor effect you created for the bass guitar track. Adjust the
Send level.
This way, the bass drum signal triggers the compressor on the bass gui-
tar track.
When you now play back the project, the bass guitar will
be compressed whenever the signals on the bass drum
track exceed the threshold.
Side-chain and Modulation
Side-chain signals bypass the built-in LFO modulation
and instead apply modulation according to the envelope
of the side-chain signal. Since each channel will be ana
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lyzed and modulated separately, this allows for creating
astonishing spatial modulation effects. Feel free to experi
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ment with the functions to see what they have to offer!