 Hey, it's Anfa and you're watching quick requests I got a request to show how you can make how you can do the sidechain gating or gating effect There's a plugin called LFO tool that makes it very easy and Well, I'm also doing some gating effects, but I don't have that available. So I'm doing it the other way So I'm gonna show you a quick thing Let's make a few chords and Yeah, I'm gonna make just Make this now. This is going to be my synth and I'm gonna also make a second MIDI track that's gonna going to trigger the gate first. Let's give this synth sound a little bit of a character Maybe a few voices make brighter Nice You have a chord Now we want to gate it. So what I want to do is add a sidechain gate plugin to my synth track I want LSP Okay Sidechain All right sidechain gate stereo That's the plugin. I used calve sidechain gate, but it doesn't seem to work correctly something is wrong or I can't understand it So I'm using this one from Linux studio plugins or LSP All right, so here's the sidechain gate. What I also need is a trigger signal So I'm gonna make a region here I'm gonna make some Notes here It doesn't the pitch doesn't matter at all, okay now it plays I'm gonna loop this Actually is a cool rhythm Now let's open up the sidechain gate and you can see it process the audio of this chord there So I click here on the pin out which gives me access to all the routing options of this plugin I enable a sidechain input Click here and select media to which is the name of my trigger track. I should have renamed this to Trigger or gates trigger Yeah, oh Give it a sec Or else on this doesn't like disconnecting sidechain inputs. Okay sidechain gate trigger now. I route this to the sidechain input left and right I Close this now and this LSP sidechain gate I changed the internal type to external which means it's using a sidechain input now how I can Mute my gates trigger and you can hear it already has an effect This ribbon is being put onto this Now we can tweak this make it sound better Example here we have the threshold What I often do is make the gate trigger track play a high-pitched square wave Instead of a sine wave And also make the filter go all the way up so we have a nice thick consistent signal that can be easily read by this sidechain gate Now excuse me Let me again mute the gate trigger track Because you can see I am muting it but I'm using it at the fader point And the special sine that was created by Arthur when I linked the sidechain input here It's before the fader so it doesn't affect it. I can disable this and now there's no input signal no sidechain input We can basically use an LFO Or an envelope and just impose it on top of something else. Let's use an envelope Let me listen to my Let's give it an envelope Maybe a decay one. Yeah, it's it's a little pluck, right? Now you can see our sidechain gate reads this value. This is the pink pink one But we're have we're very Cutting it off very steeply. So I'm gonna move the threshold. So it just barely catches the peak and then lower the zone So it actually reads all of it and now It imposes our envelope I Can also have a foe. It's kind of insane, right? I'm using an LFO here And a completely different instrument being applied here because of the sidechain gate and this is very powerful So, yeah, just have fun to play with it Thanks for watching. I hope you'll learn something and if you have any questions or suggestions Or maybe you have quick requests leave them in the comment section and I may make a quick video for you Thanks, again, thanks to all the patreon supporters at patreon.com Slash Anfa who are allowing me to dedicate more time to making videos like this one Bye