I’ve recently started experimenting with sidechaining, so of course I started with the “kick compressing bass” example. This seems to be working, however when I solo the bass track to hear the effect the kick drum is having on the sound, I also hear the kick drum (and it’s impossible not to, even by muting the kick track). Is this expected behaviour, and if so, is there a way to mute the kick so that I hear only the bass track?
TIA
Ian.
Hi Ian,
currently the algorithm that decides which channels are hearable when you solo a track counts the sidechain as an output relationship, so if you solo the drums track that goes to a sidechain on the bass track you continue to hear both the drums and the bass. Similarly if you solo the bass you continue to hear the drums because it handles it in the same way it handles soloing a say a group channel, where the tracks that go to the group channel are not muted. We’ll try to make this smarter in one of the next updates.
If you want to hear both drums and bass and also be able to mute the drums, you can use a send from the drums to the bass track sidechain. Set the send as a pre-fader, then you can mute it by lowering the drums mixer volume slider to -Inf. You can confirm that it’s still going to the sidechain with the sidechain monitor button on the compressor.
Alternatively if you set the drums track output to go directly to the sidechain (i.e. not using a send) you’ll never hear the drums directly but they’ll be processed in the sidechain.
Flavio.
Thanks Flavio, that works! And setting the send as pre-fade hasn’t made any noticeable difference to the sound, so all good 
Thanks for the quick response as always!
Ian.