Side chain gating in Logic | Sound Engineering School

[paeturek]

Thanks a lot! Now I just need to tweak the noise gate settings for pads. Cheers!

[ArGyProductions]

Is this track available on iTunes?

[ZambianAstronaut]

Nice work.

[theguyi26]

These tutorials are great and make me happy. But this one in particular seems to illustrate a shortcoming in DAW's in general. What should be a simple task of triggering audio on/off via midi must be accomplished via the convoluted method of noise gating. To make an analogy to programming, it is somewhat of a "hack."

[garnishschoolofsound]

@theguyi26 Good point but you can achieve various characteristics using a gate by tweaking the hold, release and other parameters which would probably take forever to program another way.

[charanga1]

That is sweet! Thanks for the tip.

[garnishschoolofsound]

Each to their own :)

[spacealder]

I prefer to directly output the signal to the bus and delete the aux return from the mixer, rather than sending the signal to the bus and then disabling the output of both the channel and the aux.

[garnishschoolofsound]

@spacealder Hi Spacealder. I understand what you say but can you still name the bus if it's not on an aux? Once the mix gets busy, I need to have all my buses named so I don't lose track of what's what and where!

[spacealder]

@garnishschoolofsound I see your point. No, I don't think you can name the bus if there's no aux, unless there's some obscure way of doing it in the Environment, which would defeat the purpose anyway.

In any case, just by not deleting the aux in the mixer you can name the bus, and still save one step (disabling the output on the channel). Methinks.

[garnishschoolofsound]

@spacealder Be good if you could hide mixer tracks eh? Sometimes I wish they were still Emagic and I beta tested for them. I won't waste my time sending Apple an email :(