Cider
4.82 MB / 12.63 MB
One sidechain plugin with four engines: a ducker that follows your kick, a tempo-locked volume shape you can draw, audio-rate ducking straight off the trigger’s waveform, and a spectral carve that only takes the bands the sidechain is using.
Four sidechain engines in one plugin, each solving the same problem a different way: getting your bass, pads and vocals out of the kick’s way.
DUCK: follows the signal
A ducker with 5 ms lookahead that reacts to what your kick actually does: its level, its timing, its groove. Attack, Hold and Release shape the response; Peak, ISP or RMS detection decides what “loud” means. Range goes past 100%, so quieter hits still duck hard. With nothing plugged into the sidechain it becomes a limiter against the threshold.
LFO: locked to the clock
Volume automation that ignores the sidechain entirely: a shape locked to host tempo, from 4/1 down to 1/32, that pumps identically every bar whether or not a kick plays. Saw, sine, triangle, square — or draw your own curve with breakpoints and bendable segments, snap it to the grid, and watch the playhead run through it. Trigger from the beat grid, or restart the shape on any MIDI note.
RING: sample-accurate, no lag
Audio-rate ducking: the trigger’s own waveform, rectified, becomes the gain.
No envelope follower means no attack or release lag — the input is driven down on the exact samples the trigger peaks on. Smooth rounds the edge when the zero-crossings get crunchy. Source switches between the sidechain and an internal oscillator.
CARVE: room in the spectrum, not the fader
Instead of turning everything down, a third-octave filter bank listens to the sidechain and cuts only the bands it is actually using. The two stop fighting over the same frequencies while the rest of your input keeps its level. Tilt weights the carving toward highs or lows; Smooth shares a cut with neighbouring bands.
WHAT’S IN IT
– Stereo sidechain bus, with a Stereo control from fully linked to each channel following its own side
– Mix and Output on every mode
– 5 ms lookahead, reported to the host and compensated — it never changes, so your host never restarts the plugin mid-session
– Every control is a host parameter, automatable by name; the drawn LFO shape saves with the project
– A level scope showing the input and the gain being applied to it
Cider.0.1.0 ( 17 MB )
