I.... love this dude. His vocal cadence was overwhelmingly distracting at first, but now it's my favorite thing about the videos. He's the Christopher Walken of Reaper tutorials.
Super important bit if you're using MIDI for this. If you're using MIDI, then when you move over the send there will be the spot that you set the audio channels from "1-2" => "3/4". TO THE RIGHT OF THIS IS THE MIDI SECTION. SET THIS TO NONE. Super crucial and I wish this was mentioned in the video
Your tips continue to be just what I need. So straightforward and simple to understand. And then you take the time to delineate the subtleties of fine-tuning the effects. Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks Kenny. I was mixing a country song with an overly busy arrangement. I set up a folder with the instruments that were causing me grief against the vocal, with a sidechained compressor. Not only did it sort the intrusive instruments, it also... I dunno... the song suddenly went from seeming overwhelming and claustrophobic to being relaxed and open. Cutting the instruments would have been too much, but this worked a treat.
You are my savior Kenny!!!! all I have is a vocal track+background, a wonderfull clasical guit and a harmonica......still with pan, EQ and all sorts of tricks I have mush when the vocs come in....I finally re-mixed an old song "Eldorado"
Awesome video Kenny! Would love to see one on how to duck the whole track with multiple instruments under the kick and snare like in EDM. Keep up the good work my friend 👍
How do I do this with notetracks? I'm trying to sidechain kicks to saws and sub for a future bass track but when I do it plays the drum track as saw as well... I'm using Serum VST, any help??
When I set my "VST1" track to send signal to the "VST2" track, "VST1" track also sent the MIDI pattern to the "VST2" track, making it play that MIDI pattern on "VST2" track. How can I fix it so that it stops sending the MIDI pattern? EDIT: Oh, it seems I only need to disable MIDI in routing
I put a kick drum in ReasamplOmatic5000 after that when i side chain the bass line i hear a bass with my kick drum.when i render a kick to audio file every thing fine!!could u plz show us how is it possible with kick in the sampler.tnx
any knowledge on how to get waves vocal rider to accept sidechain input through the wavs plugin, not through reaper channel 3/4 side-chaining? Possibly i won't have to worry about tha tnot working now that i got this cool little trick to play around with. Pce yo, 1luv 1reaperfamily together we BAND together, i mean STAND ...jk idunnno its late and no one is up, typical night for myself-- luckily i got music
I'm assuming this would work the same way with folders. I just went through a nightmare having to try to do this with a haunted file in Logic Pro X. It had originally been a Garageband 5 file, and it was not doing anything the way the it should, but no matter what I did, I could not get the compressor to use the source side chain as the trigger. I tried absolutely everything. I eventually had to use the ducking feature in the gate, which worked without a hitch. I'd like to see a video on using ducking folders with other folders, some of which may already contain internal ducking. This is a much trickier thing to do, and I think it would make a great tutorial. For instance, if there was a kick drum ducking the bass within the music folder, and then you wanted to have all of the music inside the music folder be ducked by all of the output from the folder containing the vocals, what would be the best way to route this? It can get confusing, and I'd love to see Kenny show us the best way to do something like that. Thanks for another great video, Kenny! You are the best. Truly.
idk what has changed in reaper, but for some stupid reason, when i try to route the sidechaining audio from 1/2 to 3/4, i can still hear it. this tutorial says it doesnt, but i asked someone else whos an avid user of reaper and they say its supposed to happen that way.
I need to find a solution that is command line only with a raspberry pi on live audio stero in and a mono mic or line in and combine out. Doing a portable podcast setup without traditional laptop or desktop.
Is there any way to do this on a live input source that I'm not actively recording? I am basically using Reaper as a live mixing console for a virtual event using Reastream, and I'd like to be able to side chain duck a live source with a live mic. Possible?
@@bw.4433 I actually ended up doing this successfully. Feel free to email me if you need help. Not sure how to give you my email without just putting it here publicly viewable...
Man, I wish Reaper would still look the same, I have the current version and I can't for the life of me find a way to send the VO track to the music so I can't trigger the compressor
Coming from Cubase and other DAWs, the routing in Reaper doesn't make much sense at all to me. What if you compressor is on a track that has a variety of other compressors or gates or other things that have inputs.. how do you know what's what and ensure you route into the right sidechain input?
Isn't this accounted for with the pin routing where he sent pins 1/2 to pin receives 3/4 of the track and the compressor itself was detecting that 3/4? Where other compressors on the track wouldn't be responding to the send at all, because they would only be responding to sends that were going from pin 1/2 out pin 1/2 like normal. I thought anyway.
Well, you dont necessarily need to use this compressor (Its the stock compressor that comes with reaper) - any compressor with sidechain-option should do the trick, and i am pretty sure CuBases stock ones have that option, too. However, the people over at Cockos were nice enough to release those Plugins for free, and they should work with Cubase. Just google "ReaPlugs" and you should find em :) Cheers!
@@evil_in_your_closet Yes you are right. I know there is a sidechain option in Cubase but no pre-compressor. I couldn't find it. Could you tell me another way to make sidechain on that Plugins?
I.... love this dude. His vocal cadence was overwhelmingly distracting at first, but now it's my favorite thing about the videos. He's the Christopher Walken of Reaper tutorials.
This channel is really helpful, but your right. It sounds like every single one of his sentences is a question.
Shatner style
So glad you said Christopher Walken, I've been thinking........ the wheelchair boy .........from Malcolm..... in the Middle.
I cannot unhear Christopher Walken while listening to this now!
100%
This is the greatest ducking video I've ever seen.
Yes, very nice indeed.
Autocorrect moment
@@bigt9688 Kenny is a ducking legend!
"You're gonna hear it (the vocal) on both tracks, and we don' wan'it". Exactly describes my issue, thank you sir!
How the HECK can someone downvote this excellent video? ...Kenny is brillliant!
Amazin!!! Now I know how to duck the bass when the kick thumps up!!! A secret to a solid low end!
Super important bit if you're using MIDI for this.
If you're using MIDI, then when you move over the send there will be the spot that you set the audio channels from "1-2" => "3/4". TO THE RIGHT OF THIS IS THE MIDI SECTION. SET THIS TO NONE. Super crucial and I wish this was mentioned in the video
I keep coming back to this video every time I need to do this. Thanks!
This is one of the best audio and visual explanations of what a compressor does, never mind it also being a great side chain tutorial.
Your tips continue to be just what I need. So straightforward and simple to understand. And then you take the time to delineate the subtleties of fine-tuning the effects. Awesome! Thank you!
Kenny is definetely born to teach. It's easy to follow his videos and it makes fun! 🙂👍
Kenny is a great teacher. I'm french and I understand everything. THX :) Great Lesson.
👍 I’m danish, and I understand also everything!
I think Kenny is the best reaper educator on you tube!
Thanks Kenny. I was mixing a country song with an overly busy arrangement. I set up a folder with the instruments that were causing me grief against the vocal, with a sidechained compressor. Not only did it sort the intrusive instruments, it also... I dunno... the song suddenly went from seeming overwhelming and claustrophobic to being relaxed and open. Cutting the instruments would have been too much, but this worked a treat.
This is one of the best Reaper channels! Thanks Kenny.
Kenny, you're the best! Your videos have helped me so much this past year with getting VO gigs and editing them myself.
Thanks! You always provide the best tutorials available on this subjects, you're the reaper guru
This is a straightforward tutorial. Thanks for giving me a starting point on how to use this tool properly.
I've been learning with this channel how to mix my music. Its one of the easiest and to-the-point I've seen here. I really appreciate the effort!
Thanks again Kenny. Didn't know you could do the drag and drop thing between tracks. Very cool.
You are my savior Kenny!!!! all I have is a vocal track+background, a wonderfull clasical guit and a harmonica......still with pan, EQ and all sorts of tricks I have mush when the vocs come in....I finally re-mixed an old song "Eldorado"
Very best video on this subject (sidechain compression using native Reaper components)... thanks so much
This tutorial is amazing. It downloaded Reaper 20 min ago and I got to make this on the first try! Thank you for your tutorials. Just subscribed!
Thanks for been so practical and go straight to the point! a great teacher!
Very well produced... thanks for that!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you Kenny!
As always, great stuff, Kenny! 👍
I just tried it, thanks for crisp explanation Kenny!
Very clear and helpful tutorial, highly appreciated!
Awesome video Kenny! Would love to see one on how to duck the whole track with multiple instruments under the kick and snare like in EDM. Keep up the good work my friend 👍
Thanks for everything you do
Best explanation i've seen, thanks so much for this!
That was the best explanation that I've found in entire youtube. Thanks!
pure gold video
Thx to you dude i could finally use the Sidechain in my mix
awesome. super appreciate your lesson. May your life is full of happiness :)
Be aware that using the pre-comp a lot of Latency is introduced (6000 samples for the example from the tutorial).
Really helpful, thank you, trying to do this for bass and drums in an electro-house track :)
Works beautifully
An oldie but goodie!
Great explanation and examples.
Good video. Clear and to the point. Thank you.
I prefer this one than the Reagate. This worked easily for me. Thanks man!
Thanks again Kenny 👌
Incredibly helpful.
Thanks, Kenny!
Booth Junkie sent me. Great information here and in the whole channel!
Amazing lesson and example.Thanks!!
Excellent. Thanks Kenny!
I love yours videos! Thanks so much!
Awesome. Thanks Kenny!
Thank you for great video, so well explained!
Excellent video, thank you!
Love this nice technique! Thank you!
Rock on . simple, straight forward . Thanks man !
Reaper is what we need specially this pandemic time and Kenny is our saviour 😎
Dude thank you so much! That was very helpful right there
Super helpful! Thank you!
another great video! thanks!
Great tutorial. Thank you!
awesome video !
I love your voice man
Also amazing tutorial
I see you've adjusted the volume on the items instead of on the track.
Do you have any best practice advice on this?
How do I do this with notetracks? I'm trying to sidechain kicks to saws and sub for a future bass track but when I do it plays the drum track as saw as well... I'm using Serum VST, any help??
Thank you so much
When I set my "VST1" track to send signal to the "VST2" track, "VST1" track also sent the MIDI pattern to the "VST2" track, making it play that MIDI pattern on "VST2" track. How can I fix it so that it stops sending the MIDI pattern?
EDIT: Oh, it seems I only need to disable MIDI in routing
you saved me a head ache thanks!
Thank you Sir!!!
Thanks, now is there a way to make it so I only get the audio from the track send, and not in the track I'm sending to?
Thank u so much!
Thank you man
I put a kick drum in ReasamplOmatic5000 after that when i side chain the bass line i hear a bass with my kick drum.when i render a kick to audio file every thing fine!!could u plz show us how is it possible with kick in the sampler.tnx
any knowledge on how to get waves vocal rider to accept sidechain input through the wavs plugin, not through reaper channel 3/4 side-chaining? Possibly i won't have to worry about tha tnot working now that i got this cool little trick to play around with. Pce yo, 1luv 1reaperfamily together we BAND together, i mean STAND ...jk idunnno its late and no one is up, typical night for myself-- luckily i got music
I'm assuming this would work the same way with folders. I just went through a nightmare having to try to do this with a haunted file in Logic Pro X. It had originally been a Garageband 5 file, and it was not doing anything the way the it should, but no matter what I did, I could not get the compressor to use the source side chain as the trigger. I tried absolutely everything. I eventually had to use the ducking feature in the gate, which worked without a hitch. I'd like to see a video on using ducking folders with other folders, some of which may already contain internal ducking. This is a much trickier thing to do, and I think it would make a great tutorial. For instance, if there was a kick drum ducking the bass within the music folder, and then you wanted to have all of the music inside the music folder be ducked by all of the output from the folder containing the vocals, what would be the best way to route this? It can get confusing, and I'd love to see Kenny show us the best way to do something like that. Thanks for another great video, Kenny! You are the best. Truly.
Hi kenny do i do this after the track is done is this the last thing i do after editing.
VERY GOOD. SO THANKS.
Any idea why my music is ducking the vocal but I can no longer hear the vocal? I did exactly what Kenny did.
Could the same principle apply with using Xcomp to duck the bass track with the kick in the drum track?
Thats what I'm thinking too. I believe side chain compression is used a lot in electronic music because the 808 is so huge but so are the bass parts
Really helpful
Very nice thank you :)
the perfect tutorial
🔥 *how about external side chain?*
I don't have the 'routing' box, how do i make it appear on screen? I only have the fx and trim
idk what has changed in reaper, but for some stupid reason, when i try to route the sidechaining audio from 1/2 to 3/4, i can still hear it. this tutorial says it doesnt, but i asked someone else whos an avid user of reaper and they say its supposed to happen that way.
what about if you have 12tracks...where do you send the ducking too?
+Blain Smith Put them in folder
Anyine else have use his voice in their head when following instructions?
perfect !
I need to find a solution that is command line only with a raspberry pi on live audio stero in and a mono mic or line in and combine out. Doing a portable podcast setup without traditional laptop or desktop.
nice tips
Is there any way to do this on a live input source that I'm not actively recording? I am basically using Reaper as a live mixing console for a virtual event using Reastream, and I'd like to be able to side chain duck a live source with a live mic. Possible?
@ Reaper Mania I have the same question.
@@bw.4433 I actually ended up doing this successfully. Feel free to email me if you need help. Not sure how to give you my email without just putting it here publicly viewable...
@@maurissadorn7916 thank you but I don't know how to send you a private message too :D
@@maurissadorn7916 I've sent you the invitation on LinkedIn :)
An interesting question. Presumably the pre compression is not available.
Thank Kenny Goia from Goisey ;)
Parent channel has to be 1-4 but mine remains at 1-2 and not getting any signals on my comp
Annnnnd of course when I follow this, the option for AUX L+R doesn't appear for me, only AUX, AUX L *OR* AUX R...
Man, I wish Reaper would still look the same, I have the current version and I can't for the life of me find a way to send the VO track to the music so I can't trigger the compressor
holy shit thanks
Coming from Cubase and other DAWs, the routing in Reaper doesn't make much sense at all to me. What if you compressor is on a track that has a variety of other compressors or gates or other things that have inputs.. how do you know what's what and ensure you route into the right sidechain input?
His send is Pre Fader so it won't have other plugins affecting it
Isn't this accounted for with the pin routing where he sent pins 1/2 to pin receives 3/4 of the track and the compressor itself was detecting that 3/4? Where other compressors on the track wouldn't be responding to the send at all, because they would only be responding to sends that were going from pin 1/2 out pin 1/2 like normal. I thought anyway.
NICE
super
Thanks
Disney have most likely claimed ad revenue on this
А можно достичь такой плавности в Audition?
Dois this plugin work on Cubase 10? If it's yes, could you give me that link, please?
Well, you dont necessarily need to use this compressor (Its the stock compressor that comes with reaper) - any compressor with sidechain-option should do the trick, and i am pretty sure CuBases stock ones have that option, too. However, the people over at Cockos were nice enough to release those Plugins for free, and they should work with Cubase. Just google "ReaPlugs" and you should find em :) Cheers!
@@evil_in_your_closet I downloaded that Plugins but there was no sidechain option.
@@evil_in_your_closet Yes you are right. I know there is a sidechain option in Cubase but no pre-compressor. I couldn't find it. Could you tell me another way to make sidechain on that Plugins?
Hallo Kenny for upgreate/update I need pay?