Just play around with the settings till you understand it. Once you've done this, it's easy to save a kickstart preset with the midi settings saved, and just load that preset on any mixer track you want sidechained. "One Shot" does what it implies it does - it makes the shape play only once after it's triggered, until it's triggered again. Without doing this, Kickstart will continue to just auto-sidechain.
This links anything sent thru Midi Port 1 to input to kickstart (the trigger we made in step 1)įinally, click the settings wheel inside of Kickstart (above the preset shapes) and change "Synced" to "One Shot." (I usually just copy paste my kick sequence to the midi for my trigger because typically you want to sidechain around your kick so it punches thru the mix.)Īfter you've done this, go back to Kickstart and click the Settings wheel (the FL plugin UI settings wheel, top left), then go to VST Wrapper Settings, and set it's "Input Port" to 1. To do this, add a new"Midi Out" in the step sequencer, and set its port to 1. When you load it to a mixer, it will apply a volume ducking in the shape you select, at the rate of either 1/8 1/4 1/2 or 1/1 bars, which is cool, but it's not useful for too much other than house music unless you can program in when exactly it triggers. I was born to answer this question, because I spam this plugin on at least 3 mixer tracks track on literally every song I've made in at least the past year lmao.