John Anderson a ?crit : >I guess it's my conception of a gate that's faulty then. I thought a >gate would have input and output for a signal, and then some other input >to tell it when it's open and when it's closed. So if I wanted to, say, >gate the reverb on a drum, I could have a send to a separate bus, then >put in a reverb as the plugin on that bus. Then I could attach the >output of the drum to the gate so that when there's an audio signal on >the drum input, the gate would pass the reverb signal from it's input to >its output. > >Is that the wrong way to think of a gate? > >bye >John > > > Well not really, some gates can do that, but it's not usual. Usually the gate "gate" a signal when the same signal is below a threshold. What you need is a sidechain input. I don't think there is such a plugin for LADSPA, a stereo expander with sidechain input could do the job, but the SE3 does not exist yet !! Christophe
