I wrote: >>Just take your motto (the "think different") to work. >>You can emulate a ducking delay/reverb/chorus/whatever kinda easily. >>Set it up in a bus and place a compressor (with kinda extreme settings) in >>front of it. >>That's actually how hardware ducking delay algorithms work. Bernd wrote: >what you're getting is a compressed sounding delay, that actually works >the other way 'round. Loud stays loud and quiet becomes loud :) >Insert the compressor after the delay/reverb and let the sidechain..... >ahh, not yet. Hm, well, you are right with this. But, a compressed input for the delay will certainly have a similar to ducking effect. When the "to-be-delayed" track get's louder, the delay itself won't get louder at all. When the source track gets lower you will hear more delay since it's input level stays the same. I know, you won't be able to do like a 100% ducking effect (where the delay actually get's louder and/or is completely surpressed when the input signal gets higher then a certain threshold level), but the effect is pretty much usable though with this kinda workaround. Oh, and, the delay/reverb itself isn't compressed with this workaround, decays are just as normal. Putting the compressor after the reverb will have such an effect, even a sidechain might not completely change that, I dunno, but it might be nice to have one though. Here's a little file establishing that workaround, not exactly brilliant sounding, but well... www.nosex.de/sascha/duck.zip , LSO plus some lame snare file (103kb) Sascha