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L2 External Sidechaining not working properly
Hi!
I have to deliver mastered stems so I'm trying to have L2 limit the stems whilst being triggered by a printed (un-limited) full mix. But, unfortunately L2 just seems to stop working properly as soon as I enable sidechaining. I can see it react to the full mix but It's letting peaks through like there's not even a limiter there and seems to just be responding completely different with sidechaining turned on.
I'm using Studio One Pro 5 by the way.
Hope there's somebody out there that can help me :(
Cheers,
Bas
Bas — Apr 20, 2021
I'm sure you thought of this, but to be sure, are the Pro-L2 instances for the stems inserted post-fader?
Hey Bram,
Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, the L2 instance is on the main output's post fader and the printed (unlimited) mix's output is routed straight into the L2 stereo sidechain input, unaffected by any other type of processing.
Same problem here using Pro Tools. Have anyone figured out a way to make the side chain work correctly?
Pro Tools still only supports mono side chains, so there is no way to make stem limiting work correctly, unfortunately.
Cheers,
Wouldn’t down mixing to mono the unlimited full mix work? 99% of the people I know that are working in audio post are doing it on pro tools. Exporting stems for clients is a regular thing for us.
Stem limiting would be awesome and as of now pro-L2 is the only plugin promising to do it.
Aren’t you guys able to do something about it? Maybe a little tweak for the AAX version?
I have the same issue with sidechaining on Logic Pro X as described in 1st post. However, it works fine on Ableton Live. So I export stems in Ableton Live))
Hi guys,
there was an issue with the delay compensation of side-chain signals inside logic. However, this has been resolved with the 10.6.3 update that was release last week.
Cheers,
Hi all,
This issue unfortunately also still hasn't been fixed in Studio One.
I'm having the same issue in Pro Tools. The first problem was that if I'm using any plugins the sidechain latency is causing the limiter to kick in late. The workaround for that was to freeze all my tracks before bouncing, which is not ideal, especially on long-format stuff. Then another annoying issue is that the L 2 appears to ignore true peak limiting altogether when the sidechain is active.
Is there any updates on this issue or workarounds to get it work properly? I've been trying in Logic Pro X 10.8.1, Reaper and Luna, all to no avail.
The external sidechain is triggering the limiter in all DAWs, but all of them are clipping when the sidechain is enabled.
While I use Logic Pro as my main DAW, I'd consider even purchasing a different daw just for printing stem masters...I haven't been current in Pro Tools for a year or so and the last version I had in 2021 also still had this problem.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.