"Activate Sidechain" Button Missing Entirely?

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Hello,

I just upgraded to Cubase 10.5 Elements from Cubase 7 AI.
Everything is working great, except the “Activate Sidechain” button that I know should be found in many of my vst plugins (such as “Compressor”) is missing entirely. I understand that not all plugins have this option, but the Cubase Compressor plugin for example has been shown to have this option in many Cubase tutorials I see online teaching sidechain compression. As a matter of fact, I do not see any sidechain options anywhere I look (or right-click on certain areas- it’s as if I am in an alternate universe where this handy tool does not exist).

I have attached a screenshot for your reference. Is there perhaps a setting that I have to modify on the back end?

Any tips would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Mike

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You are - it´s called the „Cubase Elements universe“, whereas Cubase users with sidechain option are in the „Cubase Artist or -Pro universe“.

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Yikes. You are absolutely correct and I hadn’t even considered that an option. Thanks!

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I’m using Cubase Pro 10 and the side chain button doesn’t appear on 3rd party plugins (e.g. Fabfilter), even though their online guides say this side-chaining is possible.

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Even the little dropdown at the top right doesn’t seem to have it. Any thoughts?

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You need to use the VST3 version of the plugin,or plugins

To Zalladi

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Cubase 11 elements has that option.
To Mikepapaloni.

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VST3
This is where you can see which version the plugin is.

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Yes I upgraded from 10.5 Elements to 11 Elements purely for the addition of the side chaining feature. Before 11 it wasn’t available to Elements users.

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You’d think that after having used Cubase since the Atari days, I’d have known this!

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Not relevant to the OP but I ran into something strange where my VSTs were arranged by Vendor, and Pro Q3 had a duplicate entry under “Reverbs” - That instance of PQ3 had NO SIDECHAIN BUTTON where the entry under “EQs” DID.

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The two instances under different categories are the VST2 and VST3 versions.
As pointed out already only VST3 have the sidechain option.

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