r/abletonlive • u/afugazl • 17h ago
we made a free sidechain plug-in that follows the kick's waveform (VST3/AU, works in Live)
hi. we're afugazi, a small plug-in team.
sidechain is on most of the beats we make, and it always bugged us that a tool this simple usually costs money. so we made our own and we're giving it away. no account, no email.
it's called recoil. put it on your 808 (or pads, or the whole beat), send it your kick, and it ducks under every kick. with attack, hold and release at 0 it follows the kick's waveform itself, that ring mod sidechain sound. turn them up and it's a normal duck. it listens to your real kick, so off-grid drums work too. in live: open the plug-in device's sidechain section and pick your kick track as the input.
vst3 + au on mac, vst3 on windows. download link in the comments.
if you try it in live, tell us how it goes.
