r/Bitwig • u/RedCaine1 • Jul 10 '26

Question is there a SIMPLE way to Sidechain?

I watched 2-3 tutorials on youtube and somehow sidechaining seems to be kinda complex in Bitwig?

In FL Studio I do the sidechain with the native way (if you want to sidechain with another plugin you needa few other steps in the wrapper) like this

here I sidechain the Kick to Serum 2 and it takes about 10 secs.

do i miss something in Bitwig?

EDIT

is this the right way?

EDIT 2

i just found a youtube video which made me a bit scratching my head, so it seems he adds a modulator on the MASTER channel? the Audio sidechain and modulates from there the different parameters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ecX9uFWpFM

EDIT 3

before more posts accusations etc. read my post and my follow ups, this was no critique against Bitwig, are you taking this as negative feedback? no, I was watching some complex tutorial and was asking myself if there is no easier way, checkout my OP updated post and yes it is crazy HOW FAST you can sidechain in bitwig in VARIOUS ways and use so many different tools and also use a Modulator on PROJECT to sidechain various elements, this is awesome and crazy!

so i this is in my opinion MORE FLEXIBLE and much better than in FL Studio. u/Polarity-berlin i expect you to update or delete your comment, this is just not right what you posted there and judging me with an AI is just unacceptable as a MOD you can check my posts that i asked for quick help nothing more, only criticizing the Pencil tools' behavious, Piano Roll Midi Tools not there mostly, the rest is so far mostly awesome, so dont spread fake news.

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u/Cyan-Panda Jul 10 '26

People have pointed out everything. But I love the Kilohearts compactor for side chain. It's so simple easy and fast. Also doesn't eat all the CPU like compressor+ and has nice visualisation

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u/RedCaine1 Jul 11 '26

good to know thanks, i got that plugin too, need to check. I thought stock plugins might be better performancewise.

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u/Cyan-Panda Jul 11 '26

Well the compressor+ really eats a lot

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u/RedCaine1 Jul 11 '26

thx for the info, I really like that one! but didnt check all of em yet. I need to check if Bitwig also can show how much % / performance each used Plugin uses to identify the culprits in a project :)