side chaining /ducking with the glue compressor

Add a glue compressor to a track-

Click the arrow button shown below if you can't see the Side Chain option. Select the appropriate channel.

Full Gain will get you ducking. Tweak the other bits to your liking!



A "cleaner/better" way to do side chaining however, is to copy the piano roll from your ducking channel - eg. the kicks. onto a cleaner signal -eg. an Operator, set to a simple Triangle wave. The kicks will have all sorts of different attacks & decays, as well as noise in general, so using a seperate ducking channel, which you can just set to mute once it's all setup, is much cleaner.

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