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SIDE SAUCE
Pump it. On the grid.
Sidechain pumping without the routing. Side Sauce ducks whatever it sits on, locked to your session grid — every beat, or a 16-step pattern you draw yourself. Pick a curve from a smooth swell to a hard gate, set how deep and how long, and it just works. Want it to follow a real kick? Feed the sidechain input, or trigger it from MIDI notes — MIDI wins when both are present.
$29
Coming soon
Included in FULL COURSE — every Sonic Pantry plugin plus the build-your-own-plate chain, one purchase.
Features
- EVERY BEAT or MY PATTERN — a 16-step grid with On Beats, Offbeats and Clear shortcuts
- Four curves — SMOOTH, TIGHT, SWELL, GATE
- DEPTH, LENGTH and HOLD — how far it ducks, how long it recovers, how long it stays down
- External audio sidechain with threshold, or MIDI note-on trigger (MIDI takes priority)
- Grid-locked to the host transport, sample-accurate, click-free
- Also the final stage inside Full Course, aligned to the whole chain's latency
Specs
- AU · VST3 · Standalone — macOS, Apple Silicon + Intel
- Preset browser with TASTE factory presets, A/B compare
- Resizable UI
- No serial, no activation, no account — run the installer and play
- For MIDI triggering, use the VST3 (AU MIDI routing depends on your DAW)