Effective way to sidechain vocals in LMMS

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Often I do spoken word over a soundtrack so would like to route all tracks (except vocals) to a bus and then use the vocals as a sidechain 'trigger' to lower the bus volume as it hits. This was pretty easy in Reaper but I'm trying to make a full move to LMMS.

I have read tutorials about sidechaining in LMMS and found this YouTube video https://youtu.be/KV59mr5fxOU very helpful for sidechaining kick and bass. (I got that to work). But I am wondering if that technique would work with vocals. Or if there is a better technique? I could just TRY, of course, but working with unfamiliar software is pretty fatiguing for me (I'm almost 60 years old). So I thought I'd ask first.

For my last project, I just exported all instruments to one track and the vocals to another track and did the "auto duck" in Audacity, which came out pretty good. However, an all-in-one solution is preferable. :idea:
I just tried it and it does work with vocals. Seems to have lots of nice control as well. Looking at https://calf-studio-gear.org/doc/images ... ressor.jpg helped me understand it better. I understand "Threshold" better in decibels. But it's nice that LMMS includes this (I'm using Windows).
newsguy wrote:
Wed May 26, 2021 8:12 pm
I just tried it and it does work with vocals. Seems to have lots of nice control as well. Looking at https://calf-studio-gear.org/doc/images ... ressor.jpg helped me understand it better. I understand "Threshold" better in decibels. But it's nice that LMMS includes this (I'm using Windows).
I think the peak-controller is too fast for your usage. There will be 'clicks' and pops between syllables, simple because the signal is at 0dB for fractions of seconds.
If Audacity can do what you want, i would not waste time trying to make lmms do it.
musikbear wrote:
Wed May 26, 2021 10:04 pm
I think the peak-controller is too fast for your usage. There will be 'clicks' and pops between syllables, simple because the signal is at 0dB for fractions of seconds.
If Audacity can do what you want, i would not waste time trying to make lmms do it.
Thanks, I'll listen for that. From a quick test, however, it seemed okay. :)