Looking into sidechaining techniques
Sidechaining lets you use one track to trigger an effect on another. You must have heard, for example, a “pumping sound” on a synth, where the volume of the track drops each time the kick drum hits. That is done with sidechain compression. There are other effects in Live that allow sidechaining too, and we will discover them in this section of the chapter.
Let’s start with sidechain compression.
Sidechaining with compressors
As you probably already know, compressors help to even out the dynamics of a sound, by reducing louder peaks and moving them closer to the quieter parts of the signal.
When applying sidechain compression, the compressor will reduce the volume of the sound each time the sidechain trigger (the other sound) plays.
To examine this effect, in this example, I set up a compressor on the track called SYNTH:
- I enabled the Sidechain section by using the toggle to the right button (Figure 7.19...