Sunday Sidechain - Digitakt + Mother 32

Morning everyone!

So I was messing around this morning with LFO’s on the digitakt and used it to sidechain an external instrument, M32 in this particular case.

I use M32 as my main bass/sub so its is important for me to make room for the kick. I’ll explain the steps in case it might be interesting for somone.

  1. On M32 I set the assign output to CC#1
  2. Connect assign output into VCA CV IN
  3. Set envelope to taste, for me short attack and medium decay.
  4. Then on Digitakt I like to have my note triggers and the sidechain effect into separate tracks.
  5. Create 2 midi tracks that output midi to the same channel.
  6. In the first channel write down your note sequence
  7. In the second channel, activate CC#1. Set the knob to around 12 o’clock
  8. Set an LFO with the following settings: Exponential wave, Mode set to ONE and Depth fully left. Apply this LFO to CC#1.
  9. Put Trigless trigs (func + trigger) in the desire position (1 ,5 ,9 and 13 so it goes with the kick).
  10. Press play and work on the speed of the Lfo to get the desire effect.
  11. DONE!

I prefer to have the effect on a separate track even though you can have it in the same track, but for me is useful to be able to activate and deactivate de effect as I wish just muting a track.

Anyways, hope this helps somone and if you have another way of doing this it will always be welcome!

Cheers