Sidechain input not showing

I use the latest pro version. My problem is that I can’t see my kick in the input list of the sidechain of my compressor. I have the kick from the drum machine sampler linked to instrument output 2

this will also make that I can only see my kick in my mix console and not in the project view where all of my tracks are. this might be also the reason why the sidechain list does not contain it.

to circumvent it, I created a compressor track and activated the sidechain. then I opened the kick track on my mixconsole and instead of routing to inserts I went to “sends” and chose the sidechain input of the compressor. But with this way I can see how the compressor does some visual gain reduction but there is no visual output or input and I cant hear the effect. I would easily solve it via taking the kick from the drum sampler and put it on a normal audio track instead of routing it to out 2, but is there no any other way?

If the compressor is on the kick track, it is automatically triggered from the kick signal itself.
I’m not sure what are you trying to do exactly.

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