How to sidechain in Ableton: Free Template Included

Join me as I walk through how to sidechain in Ableton. Follow along by downloading the free template files here: Sidechain! THE EASIEST Way to Supercharge Your sounds. Douglas Shearer coined the term “sidechain” when he created a compressor that used a “side” signal chain in the 1930s. Sidechaining only became really popular in dance music once it was easy to do in DAWs starting in roughly 2000. Since then we’ve never looked back.