hellou bois,
i’ve finally found a way to have real sidechain compression.
but ofcourse with the need of some extra vst plugins.
what we need for some funkey sidechaining are:
Kjaerhus Audio GUP-1 Compressor
Subminimal’s Senderella Plugin
The EnergyXT Effect Plugin
ok here we go.
load senderella onto the channel which will be ducking our sound material
(for exsample a Kick Drum, like KickBass in the picture below).
(note: ducking means that the kick drum will be used to fade the global music volume
in and out whenever the kick drum is playing. the well-known Call On Me Effect)
load energyXTE into the master channel.
in energyXTE load Kjaerhus Audio GUP-1 Compressor and senderella.
connect MasterIn Out Channel to GUP’s In Channel 1
connect Senderella’s Out Channel to GUP’s In Channel 2
then connect GUP’s Out Channel to Masterout’s In Channel.
here’s a picture how it should look like:
open energyXTE’s editor.
in there, open the GUP plugin and turn on SideChain compression.
turn off AutoGain as it will fire up the volume too much.
here’s a pic how it should be done:
if all is set, you can tweak gup as you wish.
my settings sound nice with house/trance music with a soft basskick 
the bad part about this solution is that you’ll have to purchase GUP-1
and energyXTE plugins if you want to save and work with it more often.
here’s my energyXTE sidechain preset:
tEiS’ EnergyXTE SideChain Preset
have fun while ur at it
any critics/recommendations appreciated!
