Key Gating with NTrack

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…Anyone know how?

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I’m wanting to experiment with Key Gating…is there a way to do this with NTrack?

Cheers,
F

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You mean having a signal from one track open/close a gate on another?

D

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Dead, that’s right. Have you done it with NTrack?

my understanding–and I might be wrong–is it can’t necessarily be done with all DAW software. Protools accommodates it, but Cubase doesn’t, for example.

Do you know if NTrack can do it?

F

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I don’t think n can do it Mr. Hop. The routing just isn’t there.

D

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Thanks, Dead–

Wishlist, I guess.

F

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some MIDI applications allow for a sort of gateing - NTD forinstance will switch the sequncer on/off and change patterns if you create a control track -

there are many VSTs (compressors etc) that will respond to key info - its easier for the dev to leave this to the VST programmers than spend a lot of time adding it in as a native feature -

M.R.

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Thanks, Magic–

So you reckon there might be some VST gates out there that allow for Key Gating and will work correctly with NTrack?

My searches this far have been unsuccessful, but maybe I need to keep at it.

MIDI aside, have you had success key gating with NTRack?

Cheers,
F

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I think the VST’s allow for it - but N may not be able to route say to a
side chain input, which is what I think you want.

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Ah, right.

Well, maybe we can be an earworm to Flavio.

F

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OZONE 4 just added the feature (if I understand what you are looking for.) Far from free, but as a mastering software, not all that expensive.

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Quote: (sevenOfeleven @ Feb. 06 2009, 12:00 AM)

I think the VST's allow for it - but N may not be able to route say to a
side chain input, which is what I think you want.

That's the problem right there...

D
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Ozone does not include a gate. You are thinking of M/S processing. Reaper can do side chained gating and compression.

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I used to gate whitenoise for my snare hits on some studio mixes. Man did it sound good layered in just right.

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Yeah, that’s already built into ReaGate too. And if you want to trigger MIDI notes (for sample replacement or whatever) ReaGate can generate MIDI. It is easily the best gate I have found anywhere at any price.

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I used to have a sidechain gate/compressor plug-in that worked fine in n-Tracks but I can’t remember what it was now…sorry…it was at least one machine ago (and I didn’t use it very much). If I remember correctly all you needed to do was have two instances of the plug-in anywhere and they could be connected.

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Quote: (phoo @ Feb. 06 2009, 5:20 PM)

I used to have a sidechain gate/compressor plug-in that worked fine in n-Tracks but I can't remember what it was now...sorry....it was at least one machine ago (and I didn't use it very much). If I remember correctly all you needed to do was have two instances of the plug-in anywhere and they could be connected.

Yeah I remember that... but I can't remember the plug? The two instances took care of the routing... sort of. What was that thing...??

D
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EUREKA!

This may not be the same but Mr. Hop should try it! The price is right…

LINKY-POO

D

EDIT: Hmmm… it’s not free anymore. 20 Bucks… that’s half a Reaper license. Poo…

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That’s not the one, but it may be even better and easier. I say it’s definitely worth a try if you need that kind of thing. Looks good to me. Thanks for the link.