But, the rack allows for some creative use meaning you can side-chain one band and ignore the other two bands, or compress one band normally, sidechain the other, and ignore the third one. I made this rack specifically for side-chaining because there’s already a multiband dynamics compressor in Ableton, which this effect-rack uses. Using these filters already available in Ableton Live I made a simple effect rack where you can control the crossover for the three bands and adjust the compression for each band separately.
The crossover used in the multiband compressor should be flat, meaning the frequency response is the same before and after the effect (if no compression is applied). But then I realized the original multiband dynamics effect build into Ableton features a solo button for the low, mid and high frequencies.
Searching for a Linkwitz-Riley filter for Mac didn’t yield the results I was hoping for. Looking for a way to create this effect I found this post explaining how I’ll need Linkwitz-Riley filters to make a perfect crossover between the low, mid and high frequencies. Multiband sidechain compressor for Ableton Live 8.x
