Twisted Lemon has recently released Sidekick5, a side-chaining effect plugin for Windows and Mac.
SideKick5 makes side-chaining very easy in your VST and AudioUnit DAW. Side-chaining is a useful tool for musicians, producers, video editors and in radio broadcasting.
This 5th generation of SideKick5 has completely been rewritten to improve compatibility, performance and useablility.
Sidechain5 features
16 stereo virtual buses to use as sidechain.
Spectral ducking and keying with a notch and bandpass filter.
Intuitive filter control with a XY pad.
Visual feedback of the sidechain and output spectrum.
Listen button for auditive feedback of the sidechain channel.
Master drive control with saturation to boost and fatten your sound.
Total Recall Automation, all parameters including the sidechain numbering will be saved in your projects.
Factory and custom presets, save your favorite settings as preset within SideKick5.
Sidekick5 for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for 35 EUR.
Softube’s Valley People Dyna-mite is now available in Rack Extension format.
The Dyna-mite is a unique and quirky analog limiter/expander, originally designed by Valley People in the 1980′s.
The Dyna-mite is well known for its limiting that goes from snappy to ruthless, its de-essing capabilities and its highly useable expander/gate mode.
Both the original model and the software simulation also have an external input that gives great possibilities for using the Dyna-mite for keying/sidechaining.
The Valley People Dyna-mite RE is available for the introductory price of $119 USD until Friday, February 15th, 6 pm CET (regular price $149 USD).
Voxengo has updated its Deft Compressor audio track and bus compressor effect plug-in for Windows and Mac to version 1.4.
Deft Compressor is an audio signal compressor plug-in for professional audio production applications. The characteristic feature of this compressor is its ability to produce “slim” and “slick” sounding compression, with intelligibility enhancement effect. Such result is achieved by compressor’s timing function that closely resembles the S-curve (sigmoid curve) on both attack and release stages. S-curve timing function also helps compressor to sound “warm” and “clean” at most settings.
Deft Compressor is perfectly usable for compressing vocals, drums, guitars and other instruments, both technically and creatively. Beside that, it can be used to compress mix groups and full mixes.
Changes in Deft Compressor v1.4
Native 64-bit AudioUnit and VST support on Mac OS X added.
Key signal gain parameter added.
Plug-in’s popup-windows now recover last position after reopening.
Mouse backward and forward buttons can be used for parameter value selection.
The “Min Infrastructure” user interface display mode added.
The “Flat Level Meters” level meter display mode added.
Version change history information window added.
The input level meter can be dragged now for threshold adjustment.
Fixed user interface freezing on Mac OS X 10.8.
Deft Compressor for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $69.95 USD.
AfroDJMac has released Easy Sub Bass, a free Live Rack designed to easily add sub bass to any synthesizer in Ableton Live.
Sub bass is an important part of many types of electronic music. It is not so much heard as it is felt. It can give a track tremendous power.
For this free Ableton Live Pack, I have created an instrument rack that features two different chains. The first contains a simple sine wave synth that provides the sub bass. The second chain is almost empty, leaving room for you to drop any instrument you’d like to add a little sub bass to.
Brian has also posted a new episode of “2 Minute Ableton Tips”, in which sidechaining in Ableton is explored.
Side chaining is a very effective way to get your tracks to react to each other. I wrote an article about sidechaining for Sonic Scoop’s blog, check it out for some background and creative uses. Anyway, Ableton Live has three devices that can be side chained together: The Compressor, The Gate, and The Auto Filter. This week will deal with the Compressor.
JoaChip has updated its BattleComp Vintage, a free compressor effect plug-in for Windows.
The BattleComp Vintage consists of a compressor with sidechain highpass filter and EQ, tube emulation and soft-clipping circuit, all in one VST plugin.
Made for both per-channel and master signal compression, it gives a simple way to beef up your tracks, if they are not loud enough.
Changes since BattleComp Vintage 1.0
Output volume no longer changes slightly when switching between output limiter modes. “Big” frequency range changed to 15-500 Hz. [v1.3]
Added “Sharp sinus” limiter. [v1.2]
Compiled with better compiler to get rid of denormals. [v1.1]
BattleComp Vintage is a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows PC.
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