I am determined to get to the bottom of sidechaining as it looks super-useful.
However, I am struggling and I suspect that I am doing something really dumb and could use some help.
I have set up 2 tracks to work this out.
Track 1 - Guitar
Track 2 - Kick drum
This is just to experiment. What I am trying to do is to either compress or gate the guitar based on the kick input.
OK, so I set up the guitar track with 4 channels and route the outputs (1/2) from the kick to channels 3/4 on the guitar track.
I set up reacomp (or reagate) on the guitar track. The kick inputs (channels 3 and 4) show up as Aux Input L and Aux Input R on the VST (sounds good to me...)
I select Aux L+R as the detector input. I have also tried with just using the left and just using the right.
Is this correct so far?
When I preview filter output it simply mutes the guitar altogether. Changing settings has no effect.
I seem to be able to make it work using the excellent Majortom. I simply set detector input to sidechain and adjust the threshold.
I suspect I am missing something on reacomp/reagate.
Help, help!