Logic Pro X - RINGSHIFTER Sidechain Input Presets Video Lecture | Logic Pro X: A Practical Hands-on Course - Music

hey everyone this is music tech help guy
and in this video I want to show you how
to use the ring shifter plug-in to
sidechain modulate other instruments
we're going to specifically we're going
to modulate our base and our strings up
here with the sidechain input coming
from a drum pattern I have here coming
from battery you can use this with
pretty much anything you can use it with
drum loops too if you want you can use
at least in Logic 10.3 now you can
sidechain input MIDI tracks as well as
audio tracks so let's just listen what
we have right now I'll turn off the ring
shifter on the bass here it's just sort
of like a hard beat with a filtered drum
loop underneath it with a really basic
quarter note bass idea I'm just using
the ES 2 I'm using the trans lead
setting in the ES 2 with the FM turned
up a bit for a little bit more bite and
then the strings are just an alchemy
patch called classic analog or classic
pop analog strings and then I'm more or
less just filtering out some of the low
end and then boosting the high end on
those so it's real simple right now I
want to create something that's got a
lot more rhythm and drive and punch to
it so alright so let's see what this
sounds like as is
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okay so the big wave kit and the bended
knee loop are pretty hard-hitting
sounding but the strings in the bass are
pretty legato pretty smooth sounding the
bass has got a little bit of distortion
too a little bit of crunchiness to it
but what I essentially want to do is I
want to make the bass and strings
Hulse with the drums specifically the
big wave kit I'm going to mute the loop
just for now and what we're going to do
is we're going to meet the strings as
well and on the bass track we're going
to add the ring shifter and this is
under you find this under modulation and
then ring shifter I'll load it up in
stereo now the ring shifter does a lot
of really cool ring modulation LFO
envelope follower modulation so it's
this isn't in no way a full tutorial for
the ring shifter would take probably a
big long 40-minute video to do that
specifically I want to explore the ring
shifter sidechain modulation options
actually just using a couple of its
presets a lot of people have played
around the groove shadows and the Warped
presets a lot of people jump into the
sidechain input and nothing really
happens that's because you have to give
the ring shifter a modulation source to
draw from to modulate the material so
I'm just going to choose for now I'm
going to choose under the sidechain
input options I'm going to choose
envelope mix number two let's go with
number two and I'll go back and forth
between these you can hear the
difference and so now every single time
the drums hit or there's like an attack
or transient in the drums it's going to
affect how the ring shifter modulates
the signal so let's see what this sounds
like just with the bass and the drums
that's pretty cool let's try number one
there's a little more staccato let's try
the the third one down in the the
presets this is called LFO envelope mix
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this one seems to start longer than get
shorter and then go back to sort of like
a legato sound let's try these sync
delay let's try that one that's more
like almost like a percussive sound
let's try straight sidechain suit that
does yeah that one were more or less
just hearing a tiny little sliver of the
each bass note every single time the
kick drum and snare drum hit I really
like the second preset here let's give
that a shot
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all right cool so we want to do the same
thing to the strings
and one way to do this would just be to
move the ring shifter over to the
strings as well choose the same preset
choose the same modulation source
another way to do it if you have
multiple instruments that you want to be
affected by the ring shifter as you can
send all of those instruments to a bus
so I'm going to create that out on the
output here I'm going to send these all
the bus one and then I'm going to
actually move the ring shifter over to
the aux track I'll just rename this
track RS SC or ring shifter sidechain so
both of these instruments are coming
into this aux track and then being
affected by the ring shifter
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so you could you can hear the strings
there in there - there's a little softer
let's hear what this all sounds like now
with the the ring shift around there now
one thing I want to do with both of the
drum loops as well as the aux track is I
want to add some reverb to these to give
it a little bit more space and give it
just make it sound bigger so on all of
these I'm going to create a send over -
bus - I'll pull up the send them out and
this is just going to be like a reverb
track so I'll just call this verb I'll
throw a space design around there and
let's go under plates medium plates and
let's use the soft plate
fold a reverb signal up a little bit and
so it sounds a little deeper I'm going
to pull the sample rate down to 1/2 I'm
going to kick in the filter and make
this a low-pass filter so it's like a
big deep booming reverb not like a
bright reverb
actually I hear I like the bandpass
better all right so let's gives all that
a listen with the reverb in now
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now another thing you can do with the
ring shifter aux track is if you want
this to have a little bit more motion to
it you don't want it to completely
follow the drums you can add like like a
delay to it you can use a you can try
the delay designer I think I might be a
little too complicated but we can use
like the stereo delay and make all of
those little pulsing echoes that we're
hearing coming from the rhythmic idea
we're hearing coming from the ring
shifter we can create delays out of
those I'm going to filter both the left
in the right channel in the stereo delay
and give it two different values well
maybe do one as a quarter and then maybe
one as a half note and maybe I'll use
like a different routing here maybe
we'll do like a ping-pong left right
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so you hear that little pulsing beat in
the background there now let's try it
out with the first preset and see what
different tone we get out of it yeah I
almost liked that one better you can
also play with the output dry/wet so you
can blend the dry signal the legato
signal with the modulated signal so you
can get something that's not so not so
choppy sounding
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so that's how to use the sidechain input
presets in the ring shifter plugin and
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