

In this image you can see the sidechain kick being played in its channel, but since its send-to-master knob (selected in red) is set to zero, there is nothing coming out of the master channel.Īlso a quick note. Essentially, we are making it so that the sidechain channel does not send to the master. To mute the sidechain channel we select it in the mixer and turn the knob that appears above the routing arrow on that master channel to zero. Note that we do not want to hear the sidechain channel. This will automatically route the cloned kick to our kick channel, but intstead we are going to route it to channel two, our sidechain signal channel. In my pattern editor I cloned my kick by right-clicking on its name and selecting "Clone". This is going to require three mixer channels: one for the kick, one for the kick's sidechain signal and one for the synth. This method will give us more control over the shape of the sidechain envelope and will leave our volume sliders alone so we are free to automate as we please!įor this tutorial I will sidechain a synth to the kick drum of the track. There are many ways to sidechain in FL Studio but this method allows for the most control and does not require you to sacrifice any functionality.įor example, the method of sidechaining using the volume slider and the Peak Controller prohibits you from automating the slider anytime you are sidechaining.

This tutorial will show you how to sidechain compress in FL Studio using the Fruity Compressor and the Peak Controller.
