Decent compressor with sidechain?

manray · Post by **manray** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:52 am

I've been looking for a _decent_ VST sidechain compressor for a while now and i've yet to find something i like using.

This is one thing that pisses me off about Cubase (I used Logic 5.5 until about a year ago) is a lack of a good decent default compressor that supports sidechain inputs. Getting a sidechain running on logic 5.5 takes about 10 seconds and in Logic 7 its about 2 seconds!

vadarfone · Post by **vadarfone** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:15 pm

Yo.

Check out the TC Native Bundle.

I use this as it is the only real sidechaining solution for renoise at the moment.

It is actually discontinued, but you will be able to find it somewhere.

el hombre invisible · Post by **el hombre invisible** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:45 pm

Dig Kjaerhus.

http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/gup-1.php

thenapking · Post by **thenapking** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:45 pm

i second the kjaerhus, sounds excellent. Apparently Cubase SX 4.1 has proper sidechain support, but that will be useless until everyone re-writes their plugins.

barryhercules · Post by **barryhercules** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:57 pm

not sure what the support is like for sidechaining in cubase 4 but i got SL3 and it doesn't.... i use DB audioware sidechain compressor.... think its about 45 quid. it has channels to independently route audio for keying etc rather than setting up channels in cubase. works a treat

manray · Post by **manray** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:10 pm

thenapking wrote:i second the kjaerhus, sounds excellent. Apparently Cubase SX 4.1 has proper sidechain support, but that will be useless until everyone re-writes their plugins.

Yeah its a complete joke. I'm using SX3 and it's definitely long having to setup groups and shit just to get some sidechain action going. Will give some of these a try.

Cheers.

tremourz · Post by **tremourz** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:17 pm

I've been told good things about kjaerhus as well. You can always try and learn how to use the waves c1-sc but it's extremely complicated to use on a stereo signal and you need 2 instances to do it. The end result sounds great though

cryptic · Post by **cryptic** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:38 am

its all about this - compadre

http://www.otiumfx.com/compadre.php

I saw it on a youtube tutorial and ive never looked back!

I really recommend it

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:05 pm

sidekick v3 is free and easy to use and does sidechaining/keying.
it's not the most featureful, but for sidechaining it does a great job.

r · Post by r » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:18 pm

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1315.html

simple and effective

Decent compressor with sidechain?

Decent compressor with sidechain?

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