This will open the Audio I/O panel, where you can select how audio channels are mapped to the plug-ins I/O.
If your plug-in does not receive the side chain signal at the previous step, click on the plug-in slot and select “Audio I/O”: Open the Audio I/O pane using the plug-in menu However some plug-ins may require manual input routing in PatchWork to get the side chain signal, if automatic detection failed. Most plug-ins including a side chain are automatically detected by Blue Cat’s PatchWork, so that it “just works” like in the example above. You can adjust the settings to get the desired effect on the synth track!Įxtra step may be required for some third party plug-ins The Dynamics plug-in is now fed with the kick drum as a side chain signal. Do not forget to set the volume for the send from the kick track. To do this we’ll simply select the bus the Kick track has been sent to: Select bus 1 as a side chain input for the PatchWork plug-in.
Now we just need to tell Pro Tools to feed the PatchWork plug-in with the side chain signal (Kick track). Routing the side chain signal in Pro Tools Let’s use a gentle compression curve in the Dynamics plug-in, and select the external side chain, since we want to use a side chain signal (kick track) to trigger the compression: Setting up compression and external side chain in the Dynamics plug-inĪt this point nothing happens, since side chain routing has not been setup in Pro Tools. Just click on the slot and load the VST (or AU) plug-in: Blue Cat’s Dynamics (AU or VST) inserted into Blue Cat’s PatchWork. Setup the compression plug-in inside PatchWorkįor this example we’ll use the Blue Cat’s Dynamics 4 plug-in, inserted in one of the parallel chains.
To do this, we’ll insert the PatchWork plug-in on the synth track, and create a send on the kick drum track (to bus 1-2): Create send from kick to bus 1-2 (will be used as a side chain source for the compressor hosted in PatchWork) Let’s say for example that we want to use the kick drum track to drive side chain compression on a synth track (to create this famous pumping effect). In this tutorial we’ ll show how to use the external side chain input with Pro Tools to feed a sub-plug-in hosted inside PatchWork with the side chain signal. Starting with version 1.7, Blue Cat’s PatchWork supports external side chain with most DAWs.
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