The new FX Modulator’s side chaining seems to drift and lock in the drifted position after a short while. Tested using both midi and audio.
Steps to reproduce:
- Create an instrument track with a sound, and 4x4 midi notes (one note per beat)
- Insert FX Modulator as an Audio Insert into this channel and select the Volume effect
- Create a side chain curve of some sort (dip the first half of the beat) at 1/4 tempo
- Enable Midi Side Chain from the section on the bottom (Hold or 1 Cycle produces the same results)
- Create a midi track, and copy the midi notes to the midi track such that the trigger is on beat.
- Send the midi to the FX Modulator
- Playback the audio. If it doesn’t drift immediately, let it loop a few times.
After a few beats, the timing on the FX Modulator will be completely off. I took a picture of the rendering and bounced some audio clips as a demonstration, attached.
Notice in the image the blue arrows. The first two show where the FX Modulator (red) has shifted after a few beats that were working as expected. The second two show a similar plugin (Duck, in green) working as expected with similar settings.
Duck (expected sound):
FX Modulator: