I've been trying to get sidechaining working with MIDI instruments and I've been having trouble; I've got it to work just fine with regular audio but following the same steps with MIDI, I get nothing. I've attached a screenshot below with my issue. I routed the drums to the bass, set the channels to 3/4 and ReaComp to Auxilliary Inputs, and I'm not getting anything with the threshold. Am I missing something? Thanks!
Okay, I was able to get feedback going. The problem now is the bass is sidechaining itself? Does this mean I have something backwards?
Looking at it further, it seems that ReaComp was never picking up the drum channel to begin with, only the bass. This is the problem I don't know how to fix.
Last edited by AndrewWiele; 03-16-2023 at 11:02 AM.
i don't use surge. maybe it has multiple outs & stuff is already routed to 3/4?
(on another note, when audio sidechaining from one MIDI track to another, as you are, it's often helpful to set MIDI to "none" in the send to avoid extraneous notes etc>)
After some further experimentation, it was indeed Surge's fault. I did it with TAL and it worked just fine. If anyone knows why exactly that is I'd be fascinated to know why. For now, if I need a MIDI sidechained I guess I won't be using Surge.
Surge uses 3/4 for scene A L and A R, and 5/6 for Scene B L and B R
You need to send your audio to 7/8 (set midi to none) and change the aux inputs on ReaComp to 7/8 when using Surge.
Only if you need to output A and B scenes separately. Otherwise you can simply remove those pins and keep just Output L and Output R. Then use 3/4 for sidechain as usual.
Sidechaining with MIDI
Linear Mode
