Now it’s time to get a little bit advanced with non 4 on the floor sidechaining.

Here’s where LFO Tool can come through for non-house producers. I used LFO Tool for a long time before I discovered this trick, but I am so glad I did because compression sidechaining just wasn’t cutting it for me when I wasn’t making house music.

There are quite a few steps to this but once you get the hang of it, it is very easy to set up. Then draw in your desired kick pattern as seen below: The first thing you need to do is create a Drum Rack and put a kick drum in it. Next, add LFO Tool to the track you want to sidechain. This will ensure LFO tool doesn’t loop over after initial sidechain (until you want it to sidechain again). Remember, the rate is longer so it won’t look the same as the “4 on the floor” shape. The goal is to simply duck the audio out long enough that the kick comes through by itself. You can also go ahead and turn up the smooth a little bit, which prevents that annoying “click”. The reason you shouldn’t do it the way I talked about before is that LFO Tool will be getting retriggered based on the drum pattern so it won’t even reach the point where the previous trick will affect it. The next step is to set up LFO Tool to retrigger based on an external MIDI source. Turn this feature on by pressing the note icon beside “Note Retrig” on the left side of LFO Tool.

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