I think what you're trying to do should be possible.I'm looking after the exact same thing as shaunchenmusic, and I thought I'd struck gold when I found out about patchwork, but haven't been able to get it to work yet.
I want to be able to process the stems of individual elements in my mix (eg Vocal Stem, Guitar Stem, Drum Stem, etc) with my Master Bus processing, however, I want the plugins to react as if they're being fed the full mix, not the individual elements.
How I envisioned it working was like this:
1. print my mix before it hits any of the Master Bus processing
2. have this unprocessed mix on its own track within the project, label it "Master Bus Print"
3. load up an instance of patchwork, the audiosuite version as it allows side-chaining off of stereo signals (I use protools)
4. select multi-input mode in the side-chain section and set the "Master Bus Print" track as the source
5. insert all plugins in master chain into patchwork
6. print processing onto individual stems whilst whole plugin chain is reacting, in series, to the "Master Bus Print" track.
I'm not sure if this is at all possible as patchwork would have to be 'hosting' the side-chaining duties.
Hope this all makes sense, I'm not the best at explaining myself, but would be a lifesaver if it does end up working.
But i don't see why you need Patchwork for it.
Can't you just put a compressor on your DAW master bus and feed your "Master Bus Print" track to it's sidechain input while you solo each stem to export?
But anyway, one thing to be aware of when changing to the audio i/o of a slot in Patchwork is that the routing will only come into effect once you hit "OK" and close the settings window.
I just tried side-chaining in Patchwork for the first time and it seems to be working fine.
Statistics: Posted by Mr D — Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:48 am