Yeah I tried all of that already and still - nothing... the thing is that the “key input” button on the “Compressor DeEsser” unit is grayed out (as in “unpressable”... you know what I mean?) even when I put the sidechainer on the fx insert of a random channel... it looks like the compressor just doesn’t recognize the sidechainer for some reason! Maybe I have a faulty cracked version... could that be it?

Here’s a picture to illustrate this:
http://www.sscgbbfia.org.yu/temp/sidechain_1.jpg
Weird, ain’t it?

Well, see ya later...