Ancient BUMP! I am also looking for VST or DX compressor plug ins that allow a different track to feed the sidechain. This was the first partially relevant thread that came up in 8 full pages of searching, and there are no replies (except for this one)!

I use Nuendo, and none of its built in compressor plugs have an assignable sidechain, and none of the Waves stuff seems to have this feature, either.

What VST/DX compressor plugs are avalible with an assignable sidechain? I want to mess with ducking the Bass Guitar with the Kick Drum. If my Roland VS-2480 can do this, then I certainly hope there is a simple way to do this in Nuendo :wink: ...

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I was going to add that (The fact that the original poster needed a GATE for his "White Noise Snare Trick", but hell - Sidechain was mentioned, and this was after 10 pages of searching, so I ran with it :wink: ). Anyway, I just want to mess with Ducking the Bass Guitar (compressing the Bass with the Kick's signal feeding the sidechain), so a compressor is what I need...

Also, I'm not really looking at the UAD-1 or PowerCore DSP cards even if they do have sidechain compressors, as I have 2 systems that will both need access to the plugs at different times (One Tracking System, one Mixing System), and I'm not big on Firewire for audio (Powercore FW, that is).

Thanks for any input.

you guys should try out crunchessor from voxengo. maybe you could use it ;)

I'll look into it (never heard of it til now). Does this have an assignable sidechain? I looked at the website, and it did not mention assignable sidechain (for ducking purposes).

Any other VST/DX compressors with assignable sidechain inputs? There has to be one, right? Or is this a "TDM-only" thing :wink: . My Roland VS-2480 could do this, so I really hope I have VST/DX options now that I use my Shuttle PC as my DAW...

Thanks for the info, crunk...

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http://www.voxengo.com/doc/crunchessor/#sidech

That's the ticket! I'll check it out. It's fairly cheap, too. Thanks, Crunk.

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