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Sidechaining Compression In Cubase

Probably most of you have heard pumping DJ beats with a bass-line where the amplitude of bass-line goes down when kick punches and then again goes up like a sinusoidal wave. This is mostly used in dance tracks. We call it side-chaining compression technique, where we compress the bass-line signal according to the jump in amplitude of kick drum.

How to do it ?

1. Create a drum track(Groove Agent- any patch) and draw 4 kick notes in 4/4 grid (simple beat).


2. Create a bass track from any VST plugin and draw a single note spanning over all 4/4 grid for 16 notes. You can create a melody also but that should be continuous.

3. Add a normal cubase compressor to bass-line track and click on side-chaining icon to activate side-chaining. Use the same setting given below to achieve side-chaining.

4. Go to drum track and select side-chaining track under send signal.

Now play the track and you could hear that pumping bass sound. So basically you are done with basic side-chaining compression.

For reference, you can download .cpr(Cubase Project File) file of this tutorial here..

Note : For experiment, try changing the compressor's setting ( like ratio, attack, release, etc) and you might get better results.

Have any question ? Feel free to ask me in comment section and i would love to help you out.

Thanks,
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