Sidechaining with fruity loops and cubase

[bildo]

This is my first post in these forums although i've been lurking for quite a while, here it goes. I use cubase 5 as my sequencer and fl studio 9 as a vst instrument for my drums. What i've been trying to figure out is if there's some way to route the signal from my sub by itself into cubase so I can have it trigger side chain compression on another track. I figure there's gotta be some other way to do it other than just bouncing the sub to an audio file, maybe using fl's sends somehow, or maybe rewire? help would be appreciated

[deadly_habit]

rewire and host program

[FSTZ]

^^^WHAT HE SAID

[nowaysj]

There is an an easier way than rewire.

I often used the same set up, fl as a vst inside of cubase. Fl's vst version has 16 stereo outputs, which can be sent to 16 mixer channels in cubase.

Once you have your sounds in fl routed to fl's first 16 mixer channels, set up cubase to spread fl's outputs to 16 channels in the cubase mixer. From there you can side chain in cubase as you normally would. Side chaining in cubase is probably the least intuitive of all the daws. FSTZ has a thread with a dope link to sidechaining in cubase 4, which might still be applicable to 5. You can use 5's native plugins, or vst3 plugs to sidechain fairly easily in 5, though I've been unable to get fab filter's pro c to side chain.

If your sub and drums are coming from flstudio, I'd just side chain in there, it's a couple of clicks and it's done. A lot easier.

Love the combo of flstudio inside of cubase btw. Someone on here was telling me to do it a while ago. I was like, what? But really, it is the best of both worlds, super speed and facility of fruity, and super precision of cubase. Straight LOVE!

I recommend it to everyone in the strongest possible way. Like TRY IT!

[bildo]

There is an an easier way than rewire.

I often used the same set up, fl as a vst inside of cubase. Fl's vst version has 16 stereo outputs, which can be sent to 16 mixer channels in cubase.

Once you have your sounds in fl routed to fl's first 16 mixer channels, set up cubase to spread fl's outputs to 16 channels in the cubase mixer. From there you can side chain in cubase as you normally would. Side chaining in cubase is probably the least intuitive of all the daws. FSTZ has a thread with a dope link to sidechaining in cubase 4, which might still be applicable to 5. You can use 5's native plugins, or vst3 plugs to sidechain fairly easily in 5, though I've been unable to get fab filter's pro c to side chain.

If your sub and drums are coming from flstudio, I'd just side chain in there, it's a couple of clicks and it's done. A lot easier.

Love the combo of flstudio inside of cubase btw. Someone on here was telling me to do it a while ago. I was like, what? But really, it is the best of both worlds, super speed and facility of fruity, and super precision of cubase. Straight LOVE!

I recommend it to everyone in the strongest possible way. Like TRY IT!

Thanks man that was useful as hell. I knew the FL vst had 16 outputs I just am a newbie when it comes to routing in cubase. I'll try that out next time i sit down and actually crank out some beats