How To Sidechain With Fruity Limiter
Fruity Limiter. The Fruity Limiter (in FL Studio 9) has a sidechain compressor feature. As before, I will start with the same two channels. One for the kick and one for the bassline. The channel with the kick is still routed to Insert track 1 in the Mixer, but I’ve removed the Fruity Peak Controller from the previous section. Setting up the Fruity Limiter. The Fruity Limiter should be the only plugin on the Sidechain channel at this point and should be set to the default preset. First you must bring up the compressor settings by clicking COMP at the bottom of the interface in the envelope section. Adjust the SIDECHAIN selector to choose the channel you want to control the compressor. The numbers correspond to all linked mixer channels from left to right.
I'm mostly making electronic music and have been using Fruity Limiter to sidechain compress other sounds to the kick.
A lot of electronic producers seem to use things like Nicky Romero's Kickstart or Gross Beat. I personally thought Fruity Limiter would be better because it's reactive to the actual kick as opposed to cutting out noise at a specific time in the bar. I would think you could only use Kickstart or Gross Beat if you're doing four to the floor type kick drum beats. If you have a more complicated kick pattern, I don't think you can use it as easily right?
Are there any other differences between the different types of sidechaining (i.e. reactive to sound vs. cutting out specific times in a bar)? Is it just a personal preference / efficiency thing?
