DMS002: Easy Sidechain compression in any sequencer

dms002-easy-sidechaining

Sidechain compression is more and more popular these days and while there are many ways to do it, I have found an easy and free plug-in that you can use in any VST sequencer. The name is “Twisted Lemon – Sidekick” and it works perfectly. Since it’s freely available I’ve made a tutorial to show how to quickly compress a bassline using a simple bassdrum as a source.

What you need:

Important things to remember:

  • Set Sidekick on BOTH the source and destination channels (for ease of use, set the source first and the destination second)
  • If you set the source first, leave the plug-in as it is – by default it will transmit on channel ALPHA
  • Activate the destination channel plug-in, set it in “DUCKING” mode and select channel “ALPHA” so that it will receive the signal from itand compress (duck) the destination sound.
  • Enjoy!

Watch it here or on Youtube

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3 Responses to DMS002: Easy Sidechain compression in any sequencer

  1. Marcel January 5, 2009 at 4:31 pm #

    Should definetely improve the quality of the videos, can’t see shit.

  2. giorgio January 6, 2009 at 9:46 pm #

    Yep, the next video will be in full HD 720p :)

  3. fp5241 March 9, 2009 at 6:57 am #

    Love this sound, but I cant quite get it down…
    Hopefully the next vid will help :D

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