Side chain ducking

Do you think sc ducking works best as drawn in automation or using and lfo / midi effect?

How do you like to go about it?

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CV inputs are available in every track’s mod matrix so it makes a lot of sense to send a envelope in there for universal use. Try Envelope effect on the kick track (use Filter effect first if the kick is in a track with more drums) with CV output, then loop the output back to a CV input for use in other tracks.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I will try this. Just to clarify when placing the env on the kick track, then routing it to cv out for use on any other track - is the env being triggered by each kick hit? Is that the logic?

Does the kick just act as a trigger or does the envelope of the kick itself also shape the quality of the fx env also?

kick is trigger

Personally, I have a drum track in Hapax. I named it Fx. One of the voices is used to send gates of different lengths (as needed) to the sidechain input of my compressor.

I can’t get this to work. Do I need an actual physical CV patch cable on the hapax?

Here’s what I’m doing -

Track 1 - Kick
FX Section - (Envelope Effect) - Destination - CV Out - CV Out 1

Track 5 - Synth
FX section - (Matrix) - Left column - Select - CV In - CV In 1 - Right column CC07 volume.

There’s no effect of the volume. I’ve trouble shooted to make sure the synth is working other with that CC07 for volume and it works fine with automation.

Does this only work if it’s actual CV signals going to the gear or is this just a viable internal midi signal path on the hapax for routing / modulating things?

Can anyone see where I’m going wrong here?

You need to plug a real patch cable from the output back to the input.