
It can have many purposes, but people.This time I'm willing to write about sidechaining because it's an important aspect of the production work. Sidechaining is where you direct the signal of one mixer channel to another without sending the actual audio thru it. As such sidechaining is not new, but the exaggerated effect has become quite popular in Dance music. A very common application is to sidechain a compressor or gate in order to avoid that multiple sounds in the same frequency range clash, for instance the kick drum and bassline. Sidechaining is the technique where one sound is used to affect another. FL Studio 9 tutorial explaining sidechaining.
Let's describe it in a simpler way: when someone, even in a supermarket, uses the micro to speak over the music that is playing, even without knowing it, it's sidechaining in a way: the voice is sidechained to the music (yes, they often end up totally cutting the music, but you're getting the idea). Sidechaining means, in my own language, making some place for all the instruments in the frequency spectrum, so that the sounds don't interfere with one another. And this is a new trick I learned as well that can't be overlooked.

Found an obscure post about it. Had the same issue a while back. Plugin settings (plug and cog icon) > processing > auto map inputs. After setting up side chain in the mixer do this in the plugin window. Still, don't overlook the fact if the signal from the 1st sound gets over some threshold, it will be reduced as well (1st control also operating).Home FL Studio Tutorials 3 Ways to Sidechain in FL Studio Best Methods 3 Ways to Sidechain in FL Studio Best Methods Sidechaining is a technique that was made popular in EDM genres that allowed for a signal to be directly affected by another signal from a separate track.1.
When you forget about it, you can always have those good reminder videos. It helped me a lot so I think it can be useful to you as well. As simple as that.Automation vs Fruity Limiter vs 'Hybrid' MethodPlus I take a look at 'Smoothing' and how it affects sidechaining.24 hour track we made: sum it up, this site helped me a lot to view the problem from that angle, very educational, don't hesitate to see it as well:Now let's talk about this video tutorial which is taken from a FLStudio tutorial channel (called "In The Mix") on Youtube that I recommend highly for beginners and even for more advanced types of people. That's why you have to "compress" the 1st one. You will first try to put the 1st one, it will probably manage to go in, but then, it gets too tight for the 2nd one. Level 2.You can view this problem from another angle as well: imagine you're willing to put 2 empty plastic bottles in the same bag, but that bag is tiny.
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