Erm, I Sort Of Figured Out Sidechaining (if You Have The Time)

[Othree]

@BYTE-Smasher

I think the problem here is that few people know what sidechaining is… due to so many false “sidechaining is just ducking the bass to the kick” definitions that float around the net. In reality, sidechaining is the ability to route the incoming signal to any parameter… and until we have proper routing or a sidechain metadevice (preferably both ) the sidechain issue can not be considered resolved. It’s generally annoying though, when I see many threads proclaiming to solve the sidechaining issue that are simply tutorials on how to do curve automations.

This post made me think. I draw my ‘side-chain’ manually. Good enough for now. But how about this:

Create a meta device with audio input.
Set a minimum and maximum volume threshold in dB.
The meta device will create an LFO based on the audio input between the min and max thresholds.
You can narrow the lfo’s range with a percentage button or whatever to increase it’s flexibility.
The generated lfo can be assigned to a certain parameter as the regular lfo can.
And an invert LFO button would be nice too to create the opposite effect .

Such a feature would most definately have a LOT of creative purposes. Volume controlled filters, side chaining, pitch. Whatever!!
And compared to regular side chain vst’s this would probably be very CPU efficient as well

Like this (msPaint ftw):

Posted as suggestion:
http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?sho…mp;gopid=115456