DMS002: Easy Sidechain compression in any sequencer

DMS002: Easy Sidechain compression in any sequencer

By news on December 28, 2008 in Featured, Sequencing

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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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A whole new website!

A whole new website!

By news on December 27, 2008 in Featured, News

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About time! The website has gone through a visual & conceptual face-lift. Unfortunately during the last year I haven’t had much time to produce any new music and the radio show also recently took a hit as I am get busier and busier and I keep relocating for work reasons. I have however definitely not quit the music business nor music-making. Therefore I have decided to put the website to an alternative use while music production is low.

During the last 11 years I have gained a lot of knowledge about DJing and music production and I want to share this with you! I will start to produce music tutorials on a regular basis and I’ll try to keep them as up-to-date as possible transforming this website into a small “school of dance music”. As you can read in THIS post, this series of video will be called “DMS” or “Dance Music Secrets”.

So enjoy the new website and don’t forget to spread the news using the buil-in bookmarking functions on each post so you can share the news on Facebook and the likes ;)

All feedback is of course welcome!

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DMS001: “That” offbeat-synth à la Impetto ;)

DMS001: “That” offbeat-synth à la Impetto ;)

By news on December 26, 2008 in Featured, Sound creation

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A few tracks recently have been using a sidechain trick to achieve a cool and pumping synth-sound like the one in “Fragma – Toca’s Miracle – Impetto remix” or “Robert Miles – Children – Dave Darell Remix”. Ever wondered how to reproduce that? look no further.

Here is the guide you need to produce the “sound of now”!

Watch it here on or Youtube
What do you need?

Watch the video here! Or watch it on Youtube here

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