External sidechain

[thewardrums]

Hi everyone,

First time posting. I've been making stuff with Hise the past couple months and i really like it.

Now, i'd like to implement an external sidechain (routing secondary signal into the plugin via the DAW). I've read every thread about this multiple times and i just can't get the sidechain button in Cubase to show up.

So my question is: Can someone describe the basic steps on how to get this working, without leaving anything out? I'm on Hise 4.2.0 on Mac and using scriptnode with a 4-channel faust node inside. I can't seem to find how to create a 4-channel container.chain too.. i found one in a snippet here on the forum, but i'd like to start from scratch.

Did these:
CompileChannelAmount=4 on the container.chain
HISE_NUM_FX_PLUGIN_CHANNELS=4 in the extra definitions windows and mac

What am i missing?

Thank you so much!

[HISEnberg]

@thewardrums to route separate channels in the DAW through your plugin you need to modify the HISE source code a little bit. It’s not a feature that is natively supported in HISE. It requires a bit of knowledge about JUCE and C++. Note that different SDKs (AU, VST3, AAX) have unique ways of handling channel counts and routing, as do different DAWS (ProTools and Logic support mono channels for example, whereas Ableton doesn’t).

It's not a beginner friendly task but you want to look into HISE's buses support and properties:

If you want to setup sidechain within the plugin however that can be accomplished in Scriptnode. There are a couple of examples in the snippet browser that show you how to set this up.

[thewardrums]

@HISEnberg Thanks! If you could describe exactly what to do to get it working, i'd appreciate it. If it's too much to write i'd fully understand though.