The 'Techniques for making minimal/melodic tracks' thread.

[vitaxin]

sidechaining in cubase?

video tutorial on youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfN9yeu ... =sidechain

makes my beats more interesting....

[Torque]

sidechaining in cubase?

video tutorial on youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfN9yeu ... =sidechain

makes my beats more interesting....

Sidechaining on your low end is interesting sometimes but it's not really a production trick as much as it is an engineering trick. It's only usually good if you have a bassline that just rides long notes and the bass drum cuts through them. Most of the time when you produce you will just instinctivly se the release on the bass to stop before the kick hits if you have a good ear. That video actually makes it sound more complicated than it actually is to people that don't use cubase. You can actually get the same sort of effect by just creating a bus and putting a compressor in it then routing both the bass and the kick out into the bus's imput and then route the bus's output to the master out and then fiddlefuck around with the threshold on the compressor until you get your sound right. In general you want the attack time to be fast and you don't want to set the ratio to anything over 5:1. It's fun to fck around with and can give you better definition on the low end sometimes.

[vitaxin]

sidechaining in cubase?

video tutorial on youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfN9yeu ... =sidechain

makes my beats more interesting....

Sidechaining on your low end is interesting sometimes but it's not really a production trick as much as it is an engineering trick. It's only usually good if you have a bassline that just rides long notes and the bass drum cuts through them. Most of the time when you produce you will just instinctivly se the release on the bass to stop before the kick hits if you have a good ear. That video actually makes it sound more complicated than it actually is to people that don't use cubase. You can actually get the same sort of effect by just creating a bus and putting a compressor in it then routing both the bass and the kick out into the bus's imput and then route the bus's output to the master out and then fiddlefuck around with the threshold on the compressor until you get your sound right. In general you want the attack time to be fast and you don't want to set the ratio to anything over 5:1. It's fun to fck around with and can give you better definition on the low end sometimes.

i think i must disagree with what you are saying here. coz the tutorial shows you how to set up a surround bus.
and that is very useful if you would like a gated effect triggered from say the "basskick" that is set into the surround left/right. as it is shown.

If you only set up a group track with a single stereo line you would get all the signal trough... and that might not be what everybody is after.

[Torque]

You're right
I was talkin out my ass on that one. I mistaked what he was doing for something else.

For all you ableton freaks out there here's something i found on the subject that isn't speaking martian to you:

http://sonictransfer.com/side-chain-com ... rial.shtml