Sidechaining in FL Studio

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Sidechaining in FL Studio

Post by Bass_Jacka » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:29 pm

Good afternoon all!

As per my previous posts, I have started using FL again. I'm having some trouble with sidechain compression.

What I'm doing

1) I've written my bassline/melody or whatever
2) I've got a kick sample that will only be used as the sidechain 'trigger' and have 'un-routed' it from the main channel so that it isn't audible.
3) I've got the FL limiter on the bassline/melody mixer track and have set it up as a compressor
4) I've then got the sidechain trigger (kick) selected in the mixer and right clicked on the little knob above the fx button on the bassline mixer track, and turned the knob up to get the desired sidechain effect.
5) I've got the ratio/threshold/release etc. set to where I want it.

Now I have a problem, the kick sample that I am using as a trigger can be heard through the bassline track on the mixer now, and the limiter I am using for the sidechaining actually effects the sound of said kick.

If I turn up the velocity/gain on the bassline/melody track in the mixer, it also makes the kick trigger louder.

How can I set up a sidechain compression so that the sample I'm using as the trigger isn't audible at all?

This is obviously a straightforward thing, but being used to Cubase I'm still getting used to FL again.

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Re: Sidechaining in FL Studio

Post by wub » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:55 pm

Mute the trigger channel on the mixer. The signal will still go through and trigger the sidechain, but no sound will come through.

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Re: Sidechaining in FL Studio

Post by mthrfnk » Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:36 pm

Why are you turning the knob up? If I use the FL Limiter method for sidechaining, I right click the track send arrow on the mixer sidechained channel -> sidechain to this track, and then keep the signal knob at zero.
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Re: Sidechaining in FL Studio

Post by Bass_Jacka » Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:56 am

mthrfnk wrote:Why are you turning the knob up? If I use the FL Limiter method for sidechaining, I right click the track send arrow on the mixer sidechained channel -> sidechain to this track, and then keep the signal knob at zero.
Ohhh, I thought you had to have the knob turned up for the signal to trigger the sidechain! :roll: I've got the trigger channel muted on the mixer, so all I need to do is not turn that fucking knob up! - the joys of changing DAWs!

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Re: Sidechaining in FL Studio

Post by nowaysj » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:11 am

Also kill the lookahead on the limiter. Think it is called look ahead, it has been a while.
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