What is side chaining?

[kev]

Ah this explains things nicely! I have one question. This is effectively just one piece of midi triggering >1 sample really isnt it?

 

[James Murphy]

your question doesn't make one lick of sense Kev.. lol... seriously man... no idea what you are on about. But let me just re-state that this thread, and also all my explanations, have nothing at all whatsoever to do with midi or samples..... this was an explanation of one way to benefit from side-chaining... i.e., using a recorded audio signal from a ddrum trigger mounted on a particular drum (this is an audio signal.. NOT MIDI) to open a gate that is on the actual drum track recorded via the Mic on that drum... only audio is involved, no MIDI... and there's nothing to do with samples in this equation either. hope that helps clear it up.

 

[kev]

yep, pretty much- not actually looked to much at it tbh mate, just in passing.

 

[Noumenon]

well, sidechaining easily said is just a comp/gate ie. on channel 2, but it's controlled by channel 1.

 

[aramism]

james, if i dont have the ddrum triggers can't i do it in a pain in the ass way. i can run drumagog or aptrigga to get a triggered signal then side chain that back into like a duplicate of the original kick drum recording lets say. follow?

 

[Noumenon]

uhm. it would be easier just to take the one sample and edit it and then let drumagog trigger that sample. why bother with getting drumagog to make a triggersignal to sidechain a gate?

 

[aramism]

well then wats the point of using the triggers to side chain the gate?


i thought it's to make the kick sound as natural as possible

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I was watching a video from the 80s in school today. Guy was using 90% analog shit, but he did have some digital compressors etc...

He said you can take the kick duplicate that and put some crazy notch filter on it and send that to the side chain comp etc...

Didn't try it yet so can't voice for it.

 

[Noumenon]

well then wats the point of using the triggers to side chain the gate?


i thought it's to make the kick sound as natural as possible

well, just one example of sidechaining.