How to side chain

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I think i figured out a way to side chain.

Set the multi port to audio
Make sure nothing is plugged into the multi out port.
Press com and turn the light grey knob to switch the port to audio

Switch to track 13. Set input to the audio input to the jack. Turn up drive, level, and mix all the way.

Program a kick drum pattern on track 1. Press the 3 under the screen, then press shift, and turn the jack send to 99.

Now go to the sound you want to side chain. Set the LFO to element. Set the source to the input that looks like the mic, turn the amount all the way up and the setting you want to follow the kick drum.

Now patch the multi out to the audio input to hear the effect.

Does that make sense?

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there is a way easier way to do it. Go to tape track.

  • Activate only the tracks you would like to sidechain (between 50/99 depending on how hard you want the sidechain to be).
  • Leave the tape setting to 100% ; x1. Tape dry/wet between 0 and 30
  • adjust the note length to something between 10 to 25
  • adjsut the filter to remove all low and mid frequencies
  • sequence notes on the steps where you have kicks; Try different notes (the first one ; the one corresponding to the step; etc)
    -et voila
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Thats great. I am not sure if its easier, you also loose the tape track for tape fx stuff. Still awesome to have options.

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you can still use the tape track on other steps with parameter lock :slight_smile:

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Hopefully we will figure out more ways to side chain stuff. its great having options.

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Even easier method and still allows full functionality of tape track:

Go to lfo page of the track you want to sidechain, select tremolo

Tempo sync the rate

Keep vibrato at 0

Adjust volume to taste for amount of sidechain

Keep envelope in the middle

For envelope shape choose the exponential envelope ramp

Et voila, it is just a tremolo modulating the volume rather than a true sidechain but achieves a pretty close effect. I use the same method on the op-1 and op-z.

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^^ this sounds like the best workaround.

it seems reasonable that TE could add a real sidechain to the mixer in a future firmware? (or is it something that would be beyond the capabilities of the cpu?)

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It would be enough to add an option of individual tracks inside elements LFO.

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yeah but that way: 1/ you loose the LFO, which is the main interest of synths to make them interesting and 2/ you need to have to type in notes each time the kick kicks. Ie you are not on the sustained part of the notes.
Anyway, it’s good that there are several options, we can choose whichever fits bets our competence and workflow :slight_smile:)

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Works fine for me on sustained parts of the notes - hence syncing the LFO rate to tempo. If I want to modulate pitch and/or panning and I’m already using the LFO for the pseudo-sidechain then I just use step components.

It is cool we’re all figuring out different workarounds, obviously would be ideal if TE could just implement a dedicated sidechain control like on the Deluge so we don’t sacrifice functionality of LFO or Tape etc.

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