Anyone else in this boat? I’m now so used to using certain plugins on my DAWs, that I’m finding it difficult to work outside of the box.
I especially miss side-chaining compression or frequency duckers like SmoothOperator.
I can get most of where I need to be with EQ and compression on my QU24, but my typical routing now is:
Kick side-chaining into bass with SmoothOperator ducking frequencies on the bass based on the kick.
Then a combination of the resultant kick and bass ducking frequencies in pretty-much everything else.
Side-chain compression would probably be enough for me to achieve what I’m after, but it’s not quite the same.
So, for live gigs/on-stage, I’m now gravitating back to the laptop running Ableton solution. Anyone got thoughts on this conundrum?
I guess one obvious solution, would be to use a laptop purely for the plug-ins and as a mixing device, but that would feel live overkill.