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.