Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
sonic-syndicates Orion allows side-chaining of a lot of effects.

Side chaining a gate is great. If you have a percussion loop that doesn`t quite sit right in the mix because it is a little busy, you can gate it gently and it slips nicely into the mix. Great for shimmery metallic nastiness.
Haven't heard of that one... What is it? A sequencer or a plug-in? What platform? etc.

And what do you sidechain the gate with in that situation?

;)

I forgot in my last post, if you want to use your compressor to make the rides pump on the kicks, and you have no side-chain, mix the two channels before compressing the result.