cubase side-chaining

[Diesel81]

I am quite new to production and am quite primitive in the fact that I am using cubase sx2. If anyone could help me by explaining how to sidechain a kick drum and bass synth for a daft punk/pumping/electro/house style sound, in this program, then I would be very grateful
Cheers

[brandondrury]

I am quite new to production and am quite primitive in the fact that I am using cubase sx2.

I wouldnt' call Cubase SX3 "primitive". I'm still using Cubase SX3 because it's just that damn good and I don't feel like I need an upgrade.

If anyone could help me by explaining how to sidechain a kick drum and bass synth for a daft punk/pumping/electro/house style sound, in this program, then I would be very grateful

You need specific plugins to do it. The stock Cubase plugins will not do it. This is something I've always wanted to get into but never have. I wish I could be of more help.

[richiebee]

Good tutorial - YouTube - SIDECHAIN TUTORIAL in Cubase SX
Here's the compressor he uses - SSS Side Chain Compressor - Free VST for Windows & OS X | SonicTransfer.com

[tatteredstudios]

Thanks. Richiebee, I've been wanting to try one of these !!

[brandondrury]

AH HA! I vaguely remember "Quadro" or "Quatro" busses when I reach the manual a few years ago. That was what I was missing. I'll be trying this today.

Brandon

[brandondrury]

I just tried it out. Very interesting. I wouldn't say it's life changing by any means but in addition to being a cool trick, it does have some legitimate uses in a typical mix. Pretty cool.

Brandon

[zildjohn01]

here's a nice list

[Silver]

You can do all sorts of things Once you master this trick Try feeding the main vocal controlling rhythm guitars What it will do is "duck" the guitars out of the way when the vocal starts This creates a more dynamic feel for your track and helps sit your vocal no more riding the faders or automating them

You also can use the same idea on a sidechain gate to tighten up bvs or anything thats doubled and slightly out of time!

Also I've learnt about the exciting compressor !

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I have one piece of advice. Understand what all the knobs do It takes time believe me I've had sx3 for 2 years its only now That I'm beginning to understand things Try to get The Tutorial DVD by Ask its very informative and boy have I learnt loads

Take care all

Silver

[magno]

Wicked, I was just trying this out the other day too.
When I first hooked it up I did it backwards(I meant to compress the bass to let the kick through), anyways, I ended up adding compression to the bass and it sounded awesome. It really tightened up the bass line, made it punchier, all of a sudden the drab bass notes were perfectly in time with the kick.
Yep.

[magno]

umm that sorta sounded messed up.
Anyway instead of using the compressor to duck the bass, I used it to add more attack with the kick.
Hopefully it wasn't all just phantom notes in my head, but even still I think it's a sound theory.