yeah there are delay compensation settings but they seem to do nothing when toggled except give the option to make channel sends “latency safe”.
But I’m tryna sidechain compress this chord sound to the kicks and as soon as I click the sidechain on, the chord gets AHEAD of the entire rest of the DAW, including the metronome track. It’s like the system its introducing latency to everything to keep it running smoothly but the channel thats getting sidechain compressed isnt included in the latency.
I can fudge it back to being in time by putting an all-wet 0 feedback delay insert on the chord bus but that takes a lot of high end off and makes it sound shittier. Suppose I can just print the SC compressed bus and nudge it back in time but thats annoying af to have to do and would mean I’d have to re-print it if I change anything about the kicks
yeah theres a shitty apple sampledelay already too I can use, but to my ears it definitely does something bad to the sound in a subtle way.
I ended up just printing the synth before the bus with the sidechain compressor and nudging the audio forward which helps but is annoying cus now the waveform doesnt actually represent where the sound is lol
the tunes sounding kinda shit to me now but its exporting and im gonna put it in dubs thread anyway, need to move on to the next
Ah ok i thought people sidechained the volume not a compressor.
I never used it tbh I don’t like the sound when the melody ducks out on the drums. I don’t like that “pumping” thing yaknow…
Fwiw, Apple seems to be endeavoring to break all things audio recently. I have received emails from every single software vendor telling me not to upgrade to the latest OS. I’m on Windows anyway. At least Windows tries to make their OS upgrades backwards compatible. Apple does not and entirely re-wrote their code which is forcing all audio software companies to have to re-write their code.
yeah like syrup says it can be very subtle. You might for example only do it to the reverb and not the dry chord. Its so standard a mix tool that it doesnt rly make sense to dismiss entirely. I guarantee some of your favorite tracks do it. Just compressing things together basically has a similar “pumping” effect if u wanna get technical.
Compression makes things quieter, thats all it does rly - in practice its way better to use a compressor insert for this purpose than p much any type of “ducking” thing that tries to move the volume slider for you.
it’s nothing new for Apple, they’ve been doing this for years, one of the reasons I switched to windows like 15 years ago.
For the compressor sidechain issue, you can get ‘ducking’ VSTs which do a similar job to sidechain compression, which can be used on inserts (afaik) instead of sidechain, which might be a solution?
when I start making tunes I usually play a melody and then try to find a chord that fits under, all using some default piano sound
I then put the chord in a synth and fuck around with it until it sounds phat. Now usually this involves detuning the 2nd oscillator, often by 5 or 7 semitones.
OFC this technically makes the chord a whole other, more complex chord and so I often cant really use the original melody I made, and somehow anything I play just sounds cheese and major key as fuck
whats good practice here? Ive tried tuning the 2nd osc back to normal and just adding another chord 7 steps up or whatever, to see where the notes are, but no matter what I do it sounds off as soon as I add smth to the chord
this is the bit ive made now but it seems 2 happen every time lol
this is sounding kinda nice, technoey and “cold” to my ears but anything I try to play on top sounds like horrible swarmy “warm” shit and no longer “cold”
even if this is technically a major chord, shouldnt i be able to add stuff thats in tune and retain the same basic emotion? It seems impossible and im frequently stuck at this point
