Does anyone know? I know that the stock plugins in Cubase Elements don’t have a side-chain fuction. However, there is a side-chain function in the FabFilter Pro-C compressor plugin. I tried adding the Pro-C to my guitar track, for instance, and then went to the sends for my kick drum and tried routing it to that compressor but it doesn’t show up in the list.
Anyone?
I remember I had to do this before I got Cubase 6 Pro. I really can’t remember how to do it off the top of my head - am at work just now but I wrote a stickie in my studio on the procedure. You can either wait til I get home OR search google - “using Pro-C for sidechain”. I can vouch that it definitely works - and works well, if a little convoluted.
Yeah I’d love to know how you figured it out. I tried doing a Google search and I could find anything that helped. Supposedly there is a button inside the Pro-C plugin that allows you to select the track to trigger the compressor but it doesn’t show up when I open the plugin.
Sorry I have taken a while for this. Totally forgot. Anyways, you didn’t look very hard! This is the first entry when “Fab Filter Pro C Sidechain” is keyed into google!
I read that exact link yesterday. It doesn’t help me because I’m using Cubase Elements, so when I open up the Pro-C plugin, there is no “sidechain button next to the R/W buttons.”
Yes, I see. Well, I looked through my notes and here we are:
Setting up Sidechain Using Pro-C
- Add group channed track using the quadro configuration
- Name the group channel “Sidechain”
- Bring up VST connections window (F4)
- Right-click on “Sidechain” group channel (in the group/fx tab)
- In drop down menu, enter “Add child bus…” side menu and select “Stereo”
- Do the same again and select “Stereo (Ls Rs)”
- Enter “Sidechain” track, and press the “e” button
- In “Inserts”, select Fab Filter Pro-C plugin
- In Pro-C, press “Expert”, then “Ext”
- Select which track to be used as the Sidechain Trigger (usually your kick drum audio track, but can be audio any you wish)
- Open audio channel settings for the “trigger” track
- In sends, select “Groups” and then “Stereo (Ls Rs)”
- Activate the send, select Pre-Fader & set volume to “0”
- Choose a track to be sidechained & open the channel settings. In output, route to “Groups”, then “Stereo”. At this point you can now alter Pro-C for the deisred sidechain effect.
I know it seems very long-winded and complicated but it’s not. If I could get it to work, anyone can! I must say though, I am so happy I have Pro 6 now and don’t have to worry about all that malarky!
Good luck, let me know how you get on!
I was having this problem until I found this topic. Created an account only to help people with the solution I found.
Clicked on Tenbob’s link up ahead and noticed this:
- Open the Mixer. In the main track, click on an empty insert slot and select the VST 3 version of FabFilter Pro-C 2 in the Dynamics menu (note the VST 3 icon which looks like ///).
Then I realized sidechain on VST 2 doesn’t work (for cubase at least) u need to use VST 3. I used and worked like a charm.