Let's try out some of the presets and see how it works. How Gross Beat works is that it has a 2-bar buffer, and with the audio buffered you can manipulate the volume, and pitch using the time and volume presets or by drawing in your own volume pitch waveform in the graph on the right. With this plugin, you don't have to set up a source and sidechain input, but you can achieve similar volume ducking results with this plugin. This plugin is included in the Signature Edition, or you can purchase it separately if you have the Fruity or Producer Editions. One more way for applying sidechaining to your audio is to use FL's Gross Beat plugin. I'm going to call mine Kick SC as the sidechain reference. I'm going to be using my Kick, so right-click on the channel and choose Clone. Let's make a clone of the channel that you want to use as the source. The setup is slightly different in this method. This effect is an internal controller that can be used to automate targets in response to the Peak Controller's volume envelope. The other way to sidechain in FL Studio is to use the Peak Controller. This form of ducking works great in EDM tracks to really get the pump from your kick. You'll find a nice middle ground of where you want it to sit. For example, a threshold set to 0, and a high ratio will give you quite a drastic sidechaining effect. Also, try using different Threshold ratio, and knee amounts.

Try with a long attack and short release, and then switch it and listen to it with a short attack and long release. To customize how this sidechain works you can tweak the attack and release times for different ducking effects.

Use gross beat in fl studio 12