Another Sidechaining Topic

the sidechaining issue is comng back again!

as i use linux, i dont wanna mess with vsts because its already hard to use renoise alone (my laptop is more than 10 years old…) but i came to an idea recently :

my idea is to compress ‘send’ channels and re-send them into other ‘sends’ for further compression.
by putting several channels into somewhat like a queue of compressors, where some are coming earlier than others, i suppose i create a compression chain, therefore what has been called sidechaining, no?

for instance, if i send hihats+drums into a send channel and compress it, then send this into send2 alongside a bass hit, and compress everything as one. you see what i mean?

i suppose its basic-basic chaining…but can it be effective or am i completely smashed?

I think you don’t know what sidechaining is or what it is for, but nice try.

I think you’ll get better results using the “automate the volume” trick, or by approximating what you want in your instrument envelopes (which is what I do in legacy trackers.)

A neat way to emulate sidechaining (at least, sidechained compression), is to play extra bass (like 10Hz) on the kick drum, merge the kick and the ‘compressible stuff’ by way of either extra columns in one track or using a send-channel, add the compressor on the merged lot, then Butterworth highpass the 10Hz signal away.